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English for Specific Academic Purposes: The Need for ICT and Reconstruction
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6-1, December 2014
Pages:
1-7
Received:
14 July 2014
Accepted:
2 September 2014
Published:
7 October 2014
Abstract: In most non-English speaking countries, the language is basically seen as an academic endeavor for some general or specific purposes. Teachers, academicians, syllabus designers, but not learners, are often involved in structuring, designing or promoting the curricula and teaching activities. The rationale of this paper is to integrate other contributing components to the teaching and learning of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). Authentic material, ICT, learners’ communication, task based activities, the teacher’s facilitator role, digital teaching, purpose oriented assessment, learner centered methods and project oriented curricula are the current needs of higher education in the Moroccan university. Thus, the objective of this paper is to give some new insights that might contribute in the digital change and the current needs of learning and teaching enterprise. For this purpose, a case study of teaching some linguistic and research methods courses has been conducted in the English department at Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco, to evaluate to current situation, analyze the data and suggest a reconstructive model based on ICT and learners’ integration.
Abstract: In most non-English speaking countries, the language is basically seen as an academic endeavor for some general or specific purposes. Teachers, academicians, syllabus designers, but not learners, are often involved in structuring, designing or promoting the curricula and teaching activities. The rationale of this paper is to integrate other contrib...
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Living in Perpetual War but Dreaming at Perpetual Peace
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6-1, December 2014
Pages:
8-14
Received:
28 October 2014
Accepted:
2 November 2014
Published:
5 November 2014
Abstract: The world is the arena of permanent confrontation among individuals and communities. They are pushed toward confrontation by the human beings inner nature and by their contradictory interests. Permanent struggle for money, social position, influence, resources, and territories has different forms of manifestation, from a banal quarrel to fight for survival within the natural jungle as well as to urban jungle and armed conflict. Perpetual peace we dream at is more and more a utopian objective unless we could accept that “Wars no longer begin or end, they are assumed to be the natural continuous state of things”.
Abstract: The world is the arena of permanent confrontation among individuals and communities. They are pushed toward confrontation by the human beings inner nature and by their contradictory interests. Permanent struggle for money, social position, influence, resources, and territories has different forms of manifestation, from a banal quarrel to fight for ...
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Disease as Enemy: Journalistic Discourse Analysis about Dengue Fever
Luiz Marcelo Robalinho Ferraz,
Isaltina Maria de Azevedo Mello Gomes
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6-1, December 2014
Pages:
23-29
Received:
20 September 2014
Accepted:
29 November 2014
Published:
8 January 2015
Abstract: Dengue fever is one of the current concerns of Brazilian public health. It emerged and became well known in Brazil in the 1980s, when successive outbreaks were registered in several cities. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the media treatment given to dengue fever, a disease that is increasingly affecting Brazilian people. Starting from the explosive outbreak recorded in 2002, we seek to understand the discourse construction about the disease, by evaluating the discursive strategies used in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. We selected 291 news published in Jornal do Commercio, a daily newspaper of Recife (State of Pernambuco), about the situation of dengue and linked them to the notifications of the disease recorded by the Health Department of Pernambuco. The increase of cases and fatalities has a strong journalistic appeal, requiring an almost daily narrative of the events related to the disease’s threat. The notion of outbreak built over the centuries is essential to analyze the effects of signification produced nowadays about infectious diseases as dengue fever. Moreover the discourse of militarization observed in the media through war metaphors is commonly used to emphasize the fear and the necessity of adoption of preventive practices.
Abstract: Dengue fever is one of the current concerns of Brazilian public health. It emerged and became well known in Brazil in the 1980s, when successive outbreaks were registered in several cities. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the media treatment given to dengue fever, a disease that is increasingly affecting Brazilian people. Starting from t...
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States of Conflict and the Idea of Pacifism in the Novel Fratricides
Amalia-Florentina Drăgulănescu
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6-1, December 2014
Pages:
30-34
Received:
31 December 2014
Accepted:
8 January 2015
Published:
14 January 2015
Abstract: Father Ianaros, the main character of Nikos Kazantzakis’ Fratricides is leading a two-way battle, a real conflict with himself as well as the struggle between body and soul, torn between fascists and communists. The confusion between red and black, between life and death (bodily and spiritual) and its source that rests in the peace without peace that the priest confronts in his questions is often made. If the war of the soul with the body remains, somehow, always on the same line, the contradiction between yes and no, between Nai and Ohi (Gk.) multiplies (but having in common the priest’s consciousness of Castelos), knowing several directions possibilities: the fellowship either with the red, or the black side; the isolation from the real world; abdicating from the condition of priest as the angel of God on earth. Like Jesus, pushed up and down by the wave of doubt, the father of the village lies at the crossroads between various judgments, set out to find the truth in the wilderness of questions. Much of the agony is his struggling with loneliness, under the monos position before a herd ravaged by civil war. The dilemma is amplified, tripled, and the choice is complicated. Therefore, at Nikos Kazantzakis, the necessarily provided Pascalian condition of man, half zoon, half angel comes to be higher, the demands made on man actually referring only to his angelic, superhuman nature, hardly allowing the pacification.
Abstract: Father Ianaros, the main character of Nikos Kazantzakis’ Fratricides is leading a two-way battle, a real conflict with himself as well as the struggle between body and soul, torn between fascists and communists. The confusion between red and black, between life and death (bodily and spiritual) and its source that rests in the peace without peace t...
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