James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociology and politic problems. french sociologist pierre bourdieu's theory practice and symbolic power are our best resource; for understanding social and political fields. this article reviews the language and symbolic power; indicating its function in social and political fields. we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociol...

In this paper we study learning from a logical perspective. We show that there is a strong relationship between a learning strategy, its formal learning framework and its logical represen-tational theory. This relationship enables one to translate learnability results from one theory to another. Moreover if we go from a classical logic theory to a substructural logic theory, we can transform le...

An infinite permutation can be defined as a linear ordering of the set of natural numbers. Similarly to infinite words, a complexity p(n) of an infinite permutation is defined as a function counting the number of its factors of length n. For infinite words, a classical result of Morse and Hedlind, 1940, states that if the complexity of an infinite word satisfies p(n) ≤ n for some n, then the wo...

Audio-visual Rhetoric is a knowledge domain for designers in theory and practice that is valid for all communicative actions through media that aim for persuasion. Within this domain, we introduce a framework for media analysis. We developed an Audio-Visual Pattern (AVP) language for film that is visualized within a notation system. This system shows auditory and visual parameters in order to r...

This paper proposes new languages for basic skills in the Creative Society, where people create their own goods, tools, concepts, knowledge, and mechanisms with their own hands: the skills of learning, presentation, and collaboration. These languages are written as a pattern language, which is a way of describing the tacit practical knowledge. In this paper, a new type of pattern languages are ...