Background: This study investigates how the criterion-referenced (CR) approach has impacted relationships between goals, classroom practices, and student achievement in English education in Japan from 1994 to the present, a period covering three government-mandated administrations of a national curriculum (Course of Study). No study has investigated such relationships longitudinally as evidence...

zola, in his book the experimental novel, introduces the aspects of what is now called the naturalistic novel. later on, zola’s ideas were exported to the english literature and the works of english novelists. george gissing is one of the english authors who have successfully adopted the premises and the key elements of zola’s naturalistic novel in their work. this paper deals with the naturali...

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Materials are the most noticeable components of every language-learning context. One of these materials is the specific textbooks being used by English language academies; they are crucial in directing EFL teachers and learners and guiding them through the route of language learning. The present study attempts to compare the cultural content of two course books being used currently in Iran call...

The paper attempts to make a contrastive analysis of English and Chinese book reviews on linguistics in the light of the appraisal theory to discover the similarities and differences between English book reviews on linguistics (henceforth EBRLs) and Chinese book reviews on linguistics (henceforth CBRLs) with respect to the three attitude variables of affect, judgment and valuation. In both EBRL...

As David Wilkins once pointed out, the significance of vocabulary in language and communication cannot be downplayed, which breathes life into ideas thoughts, transforming them from abstract notions concrete, meaningful expressions. However, until recently, was often an overlooked element learning (Meara, 1980). time has gone by, scholars have given research more attention. With such history mi...

Massive Online Open Courses(MOOCs) is one of the key technologies affecting the future development of high education and will have a radical impact of traditional high education. This paper describes the MOOCs origins, characteristics, types and typical platforms, focusing on the impact of MOOCs on the academic libraries and the role of academic libraries in MOOCs. The authors want to cause dom...

The present article reflects the results of a needs analysis survey carried out on a group of 52 students in a general English course at Islamic Azad University of Hamedan, Iran, in which a 32-item questionnaire adapted from Kavaliauskiene and Užpaliene (2003), Iwai et. al (1999) and Seedhouse (1994) is used to investigate the students' conceptions of good learning of English expressed in terms...