This paper tries to examine how Japanese university students conceptualize English and Japanese ELT by analyzing their interview texts. As an analytical approach, I used Critical Discourse Analysis in order to identify how the students’ conceptualizations of English and Japanese ELT were established in the discursive structures constituting Japanese ELT discourse, such as power relationships be...

We describe the elt-4 gene from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. elt-4 is predicted to encode a very small (72 residues, 8.1 kD) GATA-type zinc finger transcription factor. The elt-4 gene is located approximately 5 kb upstream of the C. elegans elt-2 gene, which also encodes a GATA-type transcription factor; the zinc finger DNA-binding domains are highly conserved (24/25 residues) between t...

The purpose of this study is to explain the use pantun in textbooks elementary schools, especially description types rhymes, errors number syllables, distribution based on age/user, content, thematic pantun, integrativeness, cross-curriculum integration. This research classified as Critical Discourse Analysis which part qualitative so it uses actual, objective, and systematic explanations. was ...

<p>Textbook has an important role in the process of teaching and learning activities. Therefore, this study aims to examine: 1) The Scientific Approach English textbook “<em>Forward</em>”; 2) Communicative Competence “<em>Forward</em>”. method used was a content analysis which it is kind descriptive qualitative research. results indicated that had implemented all s...

In this study, Van Dijk’s (1998) model of CDA was utilized in order to examine the representation of Iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by British news casting companies. The analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....