“YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW”: IDIOMS IN MATERIALS DESIGNED BY EFL TEACHER-TRAINEES

Idioms, because of their cultural and figurative aspects, cannot be readily comprehended and used appropriately; hence, they need to be taught explicitly by means of instructional materials in language classrooms. Know...

A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH HUMANITIES AND BIOCHEMISTRY WRITING WITH RESPECT TO TEACHING UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION

This paper uses Systemic Functional Linguistics to examine how writing differs in both English departments and Biochemistry departments in realization at the lexico-grammatical level; and thus, how the differing writing...

LITERATURE AND ENGLISH CULTURE IN ELT

The dynamic relationship among language, culture and literature leads to the idea that the latter two should find place in foreign language education. This paper aims to shed light on the representation of elements relat...

EXTENSION OF TEACHER KNOWLEDGE: DEVELOPING THE INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE OF PRE-SERVICE FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN TURKEY

Due to the increased interconnections among people, there has been an increasing awareness of the need to extend the knowledge of teachers to include global perspectives and cultural awareness. The objective of the...

THE RE-ARTICULATION OF HOPE FROM GRIEF: NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR POETRY AS LEDGER