the development of materials for language teaching has been retraced from different perspectives. for example, some have identified influences of a social view on designing course books and compiling materials for language classes. the purpose of this article is to focus on the specific case of elt material, its design and priorities in the context of iran. this article also offers a detailed a...

Nowadays, professors of different universities around the world with different majors need to learn English for their academic advancement and research promotion. This requires that they have positive attitudes towards English language learning. In this regard, the role of social factors can be useful. Hence, this study was an endeavor to examine the social factors influencing non-English major...

Motivating Japanese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners is essential in order for them to learn English conversation effectively. We developed an English conversation mobile learning system based on a heuristic model of variables influencing the concept of “willing to communicate” by MacIntyre et al. The system has three features: an application that learners can use anywhere and anyti...

Globalization has made it necessary for all nations to employ international languages, and primarily English, promote their cultures. Application of a language foreign culture by necessity requires certain adaptations the language. Such type communication results in formation specialized variety language: Foreign-Culture-Oriented (FCO) Language. Making use latest achievements “interlinguocultur...

drawing largely on aidoo’s (1970) play, anowa, as well as lived experiences, i argue on the philosophical flaws of ashcroft’s (2009) claim that there is no inherent link between language and culture. this essay subsequently explores the implication of my argument on some transformational domains of english in particular though it has obvious applicability to the role of colonial languages in ge...

With the focus of language teaching from teachers to students, personal factors learners have become research. In 1964, Kagan and his colleagues proposed a reflective-impulsive cognitive style(R-I), pair opposing style that can be measured by Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT). believes in dealing with tasks, holding slow but accurate is reflective style, fast inaccurate impulsive style. Wha...

The article aims to find the type of language style and meanings implied in advertisement. data were taken from advertisements Now! Bali magazine was published May 2018 June 2018. They analyzed using descriptive qualitative method theory (Wells, 2009) meaning (Keraf, 2006). result show that there are seven types applied them including similes, personification, metonymy, alliteration, assonance,...

This paper describes a word stemming algorithm for the Spanish Language. Experiments in document retrieval regarding English text suggest that word stemming based on morphological analysis does not generally or consistently outperform ad-hoc hand tuned algorithms such as that proposed by Porter (Porter M., 1980). It is difficult to produce a Porter style algorithm for a Romance languages such a...