This study aims to investigate the teachers’ perceptions on the use of visual aids (e.g., animation videos, pictures, films and projectors) as a motivational tool in enhancing students’ interest in reading literary texts. To achieve the aim of the study, the mixed-method approach was used to collect the required data. Therefore, 52 English teachers from seven national secondary schools in Kapit...

literary fiction can be criticized and analyzed through different approaches and literary schools. meanwhile, the most attention has been devoted to realism, as the most important and permanent intellectual concern of many writers. iranian modern literary fiction has shown its affection to realism from the beginning, and most of iranian writers have tried to illustrate the social-political situ...

Revolutionary innovations of Martin Luther led Europe to increasingly spreading use and development of literacy and native literary culture. In 1524 Luther turned to aldermen and mayors of all German towns with appeal to found everywhere higher and lower schools and libraries. Luther’s appeal was actively followed in Germany as well as other countries, having joined reformation. In recent years...

CaCoCu (Canal de Cultura Contemporánea, Contemporary Culture Channel) is a multimedia website started up by the Association of Public Andalusian Universities (AUPA) in order to promote in the Internet the cultural events they produce. As part of their cultural contribution, these ten Andalusian universities offer a rich program of cultural activities throughout the academic course that include ...

The findings and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the position or policies of the sponsoring agency. sponsor activities to improve the teaching of literature, preschool through grade 12, in schools across the nation. Center-sponsored research falls into three broad areas: teaching and learning processes, curriculum and assessment, and social and cultural traditions in the teac...

Czech and Slovak are two closely related languages which together form the Czecho-Slovak sub-group of the West Slavonic languages, to which there belong two further subgroups, the Lusatian and the Lechitic. In spite of their similarity and a nearly complete mutual intelligibility (see below), the literary languages are clearly differentiated, which is among other things due to the fact that the...