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Critical discourse analysis: How can awareness of CDA influence teaching techniques? (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Al Ghazali, F. (2007, February). Critical discourse analysis: How can awareness of CDA influence teaching techniques?. Presented at TESOL Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a creative and disciplined enterprise which is based on a speech act theory that says that language is used not only to describe things but to do things as well (Brown and Yule, 1985). It is essentially an approac... Read More about Critical discourse analysis: How can awareness of CDA influence teaching techniques?.

Developing induction – the University of Salford experience (2007)
Journal Article
Adams, R. (2007). Developing induction – the University of Salford experience. SCONUL focus (Online), 40(Spring), 57-61

This article examines the work of staff within Information Services Division at the University of Salford on developing a Library and IT induction programme for students.

The relationship between self-access centres and sociocultural elements in language learning (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Al Ghazali, F. (2007, January). The relationship between self-access centres and sociocultural elements in language learning. Presented at TESOL Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Abstract

As Kennedy and Edwards (1998) point out, infusing an innovation into a different society is not always easy due to the cultural discrepancy between adopters of the innovation from one side and its recipients from the other. This dissimil... Read More about The relationship between self-access centres and sociocultural elements in language learning.