November 2012

Colonialism and the recreation of identity: The Irish Theatre as case study

  This study aims at highlighting the role of the Irish theatre in reviving Irish culture and establishing a dependent Irish identity. It also seeks to prove that theatre is used as means of resistance to English colonialism; it presents W. B. Yeats as an example of the Irish dramatists who played a significant role in the recreation of Irish national identity as an independent distinct identity. Actually,...

Author(s): Amal Riyadh Kitishat

November 2012

The teaching of English in Iran: The place of culture

  The present study is an attempt to reveal the attitudes of the Iranian high school and university learners towards the way culture is addressed in ELT (English language teaching) in Iran. Although, research of a similar nature has been done in other countries, the present study complements others by following 300 university and high school learners and it provides another avenue for examining the...

Author(s): Hamid Reza Mahboudi and Farzane Javdani