August 2011

Managing popular entertainment for national identity and nation building

  This study strived to extricate the significance of managing popular entertainment for national identity and nation building. It observed that popular entertainment stems from the culture of a people as social, political, economic and technological experiences and could be in form of carnival, storytelling, ritual performance, dance, music, drama, magical feat as well as reflects other values and norms of the...

Author(s): Osedebamen David Oamen

August 2011

The effect of teaching culturally-based texts on the Persian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ motivation and reading performance

  The paper served as an attempt to investigate whether teaching the culturally-loaded texts to Persian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners bear any influence on their performance on reading comprehension tests. The paper, in addition, explores the any interrelationship between the teaching of culture-oriented texts and the motivation level of language learners.To achieve such objectives,102 Persian...

Author(s): Nasser Rashidi and Kamal Heidari Soureshjani