Submitted by TE Editor on 12 October, 2005 - 13:00
'Humanism' is one of those constructs that people argue about passionately. Instead of attempting to define it, perhaps it makes more sense to focus on some commonly agreed characteristics of humanism.
Submitted by TE Editor on 6 September, 2005 - 13:00
Non-verbal communication (body language, paralinguistics) has been a focus of attention for some time in areas such as the refinement of presentation skills, developing social skills, and even as a realistic alternative to the lie-detector test.
For the purpose of this article 'inquiry' will be taken to mean 'a language act in which one attempts to elicit another's help in going beyond his or her present understanding .' (Lindfors 1999)
It is widely recognized that second language (L2) mental lexicon must be independent of its first language (L1) counterpart, if learners are to use the target language effectively and fluently.
Have you ever considered why a learner (even an advanced one) can hear a difficult English word or phrase literally thousands of times and still not use that word in the way that a native speaker does?
In general, students learning to read in English do not like reading and they rarely read. This is partly due to the way reading is approached in the language class.
