Journal of Language and Cultural Education

print issue 4(3) September 2016

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Table of Contents

Mexican university teacher-researchers’ biliteracy beliefs and practices

Jitka Crhová & María del Rocío Domínguez, Mexico

 

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Multicultural society by university studentsˈ view

Mariana Sirotová & Veronika Michvocíková, Slovakia

 

32

Reflections from teachers and students on speaking anxiety in an EFL classroom

Songyut Akkakoson, Thailand

 

46

A critical look at the portfolio as a tool for teacher cognition at pre-gradual level: perceptions of students

Zuzana Straková, Slovakia

 

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The Relationship between Language Learning Motivation and Foreign Language Achievement as Mediated by Perfectionism: The Case of High School EFL Learners

Parisa Dashtizadeh & Mohammad Taghi Farvardin , Iran

 

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Comparative exploration of learning styles and teaching techniques between Thai and Vietnamese EFL students and instructors

Nakhornsri Supalak, Thailand

 

103

Assessment preferences and learning styles in ESP

Ivana Simonova, Czech Republic

 

142

A corpus-based analysis of textbooks used in the orientation course for immigrants in Germany: Ideological and pedagogic implications

Ray C. H. Leung, Germany

 

154

The intercultural component in an EFL course-book package

Zuzana Sándorová, Slovakia

 

178

EFL teacher professional change in India

Helen B. Toraskar, Hong Kong

 

204

Adventure in a new language: what a first generation Canadian immigrant’s narrative holds for ESL teachers

Xing Fang, China

 

222

TEFL Teachers’ and Non-TEFL Teachers’ Perceptions on the Relationship between SLA Research and Language Pedagogy

Amir Zand-Moghadam & Hussein Meihami, Iran

 

233

Marketing Masculinity, Branding the Book: Current Gender Trends in the Presentation of Selected Boys’ Adventure Novels

Janice Robertson, South Africa

 

257

Teaching Jessica: Race, Religion, and Gender in The Merchant of Venice

Efraim Sicher, Israel

 

268

Romantic imagination in a comparative perspective: English and Slovak Romantic literature

Anton Pokrivčák & Silvia Pokrivčáková

 

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