June 2011
Exploring innovative activities in using news stories to teach advanced Chinese learners English in a multimedia way
The basic reason of selecting English newspapers as a teaching tool is very pragmatic as English newspapers cover an array of information and knowledge and that is too within the reach of learners’ computers. The present paper aims to study issues that are interwoven with teaching English through English newspaper in an EFL (English as Foreign Language) classroom. Key words: News...
June 2011
Alma’s psyche: The battlefield of opposite drives in Summer and Smoke
To Jung, literary works are media through which the archetypes of the collective unconscious manifest themselves. Summer and Smoke is a striking psychological drama that can be analyzed based on the Jungian psychoanalysis. So employing Jung’s theories, the research aims at exploring the main archetypes hidden in the deeper layers of Alma’s mind in Summer and Smoke. Although...
June 2011
Grammatical cohesion in students’ argumentative essay
This study analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively the cohesive devices used by undergraduate students in their argumentative essay. One-hundred and four essays were collected and assessed by two interraters, but only 64 essays statistically qualified as the corpus of the study. Halliday and Hasan (1976) concept of grammatical cohesion was used as framework for the analysis of the essays. Reference had the...
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