The 21 century has marked an unprecedented advancement of new media. New media has become so pervasive that it has penetrated into every aspect of our society. New media literacy plays an essential role for any citizen to participate fully in the 21 century society. Researchers have documented that literacy has evolved historically from classic literacy (reading-writingunderstanding) to audiovi...

There are more people in the world than ever before, and a far greater part of them want an education. The demand cannot be met simply by building more schools and training more teachers. Education must become more efficient. To this end curricula must be revised and simplified, and textbooks and classroom techniques improved. In any other field a demand for increased production would have led ...

A modern text is seldom a stand-alone product consisting merely of writing, but a multimodal body of signs from different meaning-making systems. The multimodal context and the new forms of translation, in which the concept of ‘text’ goes beyond language, have become increasingly relevant in contemporary translation research and practice. In order to study multimodal context and intermodal form...

Sample-based music composition often involves the task of manually searching appropriate samples from existing audio. Audio mosaicing can be regarded as a way to automatize this process by specifying the desired audio attributes, so that sound snippets that match these attributes are concatenated in a synthesis engine. These attributes are typically derived from a target audio sequence, which m...

The present article summarizes the foundations, knowledge and current scenario of asthma, through a theoretical review of clinical and psychological implications of the illness. It examines the concept of health education and health education programs for people diagnosed with asthma. Focusing on children and teenager demographics, it reflects on the question of motivation, considered essential...

This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting the learning of English of the secondary school students in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The objectives of the study were (1) To find out the factors affecting the learning of English at secondary level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; and (2) To provide a base for improvement of teaching English as a second language at the secondary school level in Pa...