in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Ya’juj and Ma’juj are signs of apocalypse in Islam, Christianity and Judaism. One of the sources of cognition is ma’surah narrations and hadiths (those originated from the Infallibles) and the advent of Isra’iliyyats by the fabricators of narrations with contradictory themes has added to the complexity of this puzzle. Influenced by narrations and the role of social developments in knowing their...