Through constant exposure to adult input, in dialogue, children’s language gradually develops into rich linguistic constructions that contain multiple cross-modal elements subtly used together for coherent communicative functions. In this chapter, we retrace children’s pathways into multimodal language acquisition in a scaffolding interactional environment. We begin with the first multimodal bu...

This study aims to present an accessible model of some frequent nonfinite adverbial types occurring in English prose fiction. As its main syntactic argument, it recognizes that these adverbials are mostly elliptical in that there are some dependent-clause markers one can assume to be implicit when supplying those elements back into the clause complex. Some comments are provided at the end on th...

The brick ornamentation in Islamic architecture represents the unique skill of the architectural artists and we have seen the perfection of this kind of art during the Seljuk period. There is little information about the process of developing brick art in the architecture of Islamic mosque in Iran, and it has not yet been dealt with as it is worthy of this precious art. Therefore, it is necessa...

"Creative" is a word with many uses. Sometimes it is used to describe the potential of a person to produce creative works whether they have produced any work as yet or not. Sometimes it is used to describe every-day behaviors as, for example, when a nursery school curriculum is said to encourage creative activities such as drawing or story telling. In this essay, I will restrict the meaning of ...

the present study aims to offer a constructivist/realistic vision toward the nature and elements of science according to the historical evolution of philosophical perspectives on science. this is done with the aim of revising in science education. according to the findings obtained by this study a two-dimensional model is proposed for explaining elements of science and the related essential cha...

starting from the 6th century a.h., and especially starting from the mongol era onward, along with the flourishing of historiography, historical shāhnāmeh-composition also became a point of interest, and shāhnāmehs appeared with the aim of recording historical events. in the composition of these shāhnāmehs, ferdowsi’s shāhnāmeh was like a model for the shāhnāmeh-writers, and due to this the spi...

This paper mainly discusses the research and practice process of a laboratory curriculum by leading students to perform field investigation into time-honoured shops that have existed for more than 50 years in the downtown area of Tainan, Taiwan, and then search again for design elements and completing the design. The participants are juniors from the Department of Visual Communication Design, K...