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This paper investigates the relationship between psychoactive substances and so-called paranormal phenomena falling within the study of parapsychology. It is primarily concerned with extrasensory perception (ESP)—telepathy, precognition,... more
The cities are responsible up to 75% of energy consumptions and 80% of CO2 emissions. The European Performance of Buildings Directives and the urban regulations are going towards the reduction of the energy consumptions and the... more
The paper presents an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a needs-based approach to ESP course design in the context of Greek tertiary education and to measure the impact of the influence of pre-existing English... more
Learner motivation is considered a vital factor in second language instruction. An analysis of motivation types and degrees can reveal learners’ expectations and learning objectives. The present study analyzes the motivational patterns of... more
One of the most prevalent ways in which power works in education is by separating out and segmenting knowledge areas so that their corresponding synergies and connective augmentations are nullified. This article takes secondary English... more
In my paper I first give a synopsis of the state of the art in ESP, briefly outlining the ways in which it has developed and the role it plays today in academia and in foreign language teaching. I then suggest some of the ways in which... more
Making linguistics accessible and relevant to all teachers, this text looks at language issues in the classroom through an applied sociocultural perspective focused on how language functions in society and in schools—how it is used, for... more
Teaching and curriculum involves not only adhering to the teaching content, but the teaching methodology, learning strategies and the changed relationship between students and teachers. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that what is... more
Abstract: The argument I will develop in this essay is that the foreign students are a latent human resource who can assist with overcoming English monolingualism in the Australian population. Foreign students, properly rewarded, can be a... more
Abstract : 1. What are we doing when we do grammar ? / 2. So what is grammar?/ 3. Where do the rules in book grammars come from ? / 4. So is grammar just about the links between words ? / 5.Language grammar always happens at the same time... more
A PDF of English for Mechanics (120 pages) is available for purchase for US$15 (Paypal) at http://thormay.net/lxesl/teachx2.html . The material here on Academia.edu is a sample only. This is a workbook for classroom use or private study.... more
This is a corpus study aimed to compare six Iranian general English university textbook's reading comprehension passages and the passages of reading comprehension section of MA exams from 2010 to 2014. The study used three reading related... more
Después de presentar la perspectiva sociocultural en la investigación y la enseñanza de la comprensión lectora y de defender la necesidad de adoptarla en ELE y también con textos de especialidad, analizamos algunas de las características... more
This paper introduces a classroom practice incorporating an ESP YouTube video, “The map of mathematics” by Dominic Walliman. This is an attempt to introduce English directly applicable to science/ engineering students where... more
TEACHING PRODUCTIVITY AND ITS ENEMIES is a distribution of my original doctoral dissertation "Language Tangle : Predicting and Facilitating Outcomes in Language Education" ( http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804346 ) with a new title better... more
[NOTE: The captions of fig 6 and 7 have images of fig 7 and fig 6] Internet necessitates and Unicode facilitates multilingual typography on a scale never seen before. As a result, multilingual typesetting, something that used to be an... more
Arabic and English manual for the first computer naskh typeface with variations. The typeface was not driven by smart font technology, but static. For this reason it consisted of 31 fonts, each with a fixed selection of variation features... more
The volume aims to investigate the linguistic dynamics inherent in tourism promotional texts. The focus is on recent and authentic brochures, issued in Great Britain and representing Italy as a tourist destination. ‘English for... more
"Like all multi-lingual computing, Arabic computing is now firmly in the domain of Unicode. Unicode is an industrial protocol with the status of international agreement. It is designed to encode the elements of all known script systems in... more
Статья посвящена вопросам развития академической грамотности у русскоязычных студентов. Обосновываются необходимость развития академических навыков на основе обучения чтению и письму. Выделяется потребность русскоязычных студентов в... more
Tato práce má za cíl poskytnout stručné, kritické a ucelené uvedení do problematiky anomální kognice, tedy jevů označovaných jako telepatie, či „mimosmyslové vnímání“. Zaměřuje se na vytvoření teoretické pozadí problematiky a to zejména... more
This case study re-envisions the objectives of an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program as taught by expatriate staff in a Japanese university. EAP courses in Japan often assume students will study in English speaking countries and... more
Project Works as Vehicles for Authenticity in the Graduate Business School of Sfax, Tunisia Soufiane Trabelsi Sohar University, Sultanate of Oman Abstract The objective of the present study is to explore the extent to which the... more