Nowadays, more and more people start to learn a second language either to enhance their competitions or to know about others’ cultures. The process of acquiring a second language is quite different from the way one forms his or her first language. Due to individual differences, it is hard to conclude how long one should spend on acquiring a second language. However, no matter how fast or slow one’s learning pace is, he or she must go through five stages to become a “near-native” speaker or writer
an introduction: Anyone who has followed human history, we find that each historical era concerns, issues and preoccupations, and in the march of human thought, combine the words of civilization, highlighting new ideas and concepts, the most important of these new concepts for this concept of globalization century that imposes itself on contemporary life in all intellectual, scientific, political and economic levels and cultural, media and education, globalization is described as the new millennium
Faculty of Literature and Humanities Department of English Language and Literature Master’s Thesis Developing a Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis (CCDA) Framework for Interaction Analysis in an Iranian EFL Context By: Amin Davoodi Supervisor: Mostafa Hasrati, PhD Advisor: Nouroddin Yousofi, PhD February, 2015 Acknowledgment I would like to express my special appreciation and thanks to all those who contributed to this thesis. First of all, I would like to express my immense gratitude
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of