abstract as literary texts have different layers, they are open to various political, social and cultural interpretations and readings. the main purpose of orators is to persuade their audience.thus, orators must be familiar with intra-textual factors (residing inside language) and situational factors (residing outside language), such as social, political, and cultural factors, in order to be a...

Initiation into contextualizing mindful second language teacher education (SLTE) has challenged teacher educators causing their retreat into mindless submission to ready-made standardized directives. To revive the starting perspective in curriculum development in light of the recent trend towards responsive SLTE, this practitioner research investigated how the context was incorporat...

The reception of the book by my five distinguished colleagues was generally positive, for which I am grateful. There was, however, very little reference, positive or negative, to the specific contents of the book. The commentaries were not in any detailed sense "book reviews," nor, perhaps, were they meant to be. It was more that the commentators, each having done some work on rewardschedule ef...