When Kenneth Bruffee said ‘The beginnings of peer tutoring lie in practice, not in theory’ (Bruffee 2001, p.206), he was pointing out that ‘ancilliary [writing support] programs staffed by professionals’ weren’t working. ...

As language use today moves increasingly into digital fora - social media, social networking and so on, accompanied by an internationalisation of English, the language most associated with the Internet, the concept of ...

Much computer-assisted language learning (CALL) software engenders a mixture of reactions upon initial exposure. For teachers, this may obscure a more objective view of the benefits to the learner. This article considers ...

While it is becoming less commonplace for national flags to feature on language-learning materials, it would be premature to announce their demise, particularly in the case of languages other than English. They are even ...

The present study seeks to identify and contrast the linguistic patterns used by native speakers of Irish English (NSIrE) and native speakers of Iraqi Arabic (NSIA) in producing the speech behaviour of complimenting, with ...

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For post-dictatorship countries attempting to come to terms with and understand their past, historical media studies have a particularly important role to play. In identifying discursive strategies, objective and subjective ...

In the rapidly changing environment of language learning and teaching, electronic literacies have an increasingly important role to play. While much research on new literacies focuses on the World Wide Web, the aim in ...

In the second half of Ōshiro Tatsuhiro’s novella, Kakuteru Pātī (The Cocktail Party), first published in 1967, one of the American characters, Mister Miller, responds to the Okinawan protagonist’s request for help: ‘We ...

This thesis investigates the different dimensions of the memory concept in Günter Grass‟s autobiographical text Peeling the Onion, published in 2006, building on theories by Jan and Aleida Assmann, Maurice Halbwachs, Astrid ...