Menna Mohamed Salama El-Masry
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Ecotourism is one form of nature-based responsible travel that preserves environment and its natural areas. The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) is the inaugural American non-lucrative institution dedicating its efforts to cultivate the ideals and principles of ecotourism. What is intriguing about ...
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Ecotourism is one form of nature-based responsible travel that preserves environment and its natural areas. The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) is the inaugural American non-lucrative institution dedicating its efforts to cultivate the ideals and principles of ecotourism. What is intriguing about TIES homepage is that it deploys multimodal units in ensembles to explicate human-nature relationship. Moreover, the TIES homepage illustrates a kind of semiotic complexity in communicating ecological and touristic issues and this asserts the significance of this homepage at two interrelated levels: genre level and mode level. Accordingly, the paper presents a multimodal visual social semiotic analysis of the TIES homepage’s hypertextuality based on a hybrid of multimodal semiotic frameworks, namely genre analysis, layout analysis, and image analysis. The findings formulate that TIES is viewed as a typical discursive practice as it expounds how the interplay of different semiotic resources construe social practices and reflect social realities relating to environmental threats and values.
Leyla N. M. Norman; Amirpooya D. Dardashti; Sara Zohoor; Keith M. Graham; Zohreh R. Eslami
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This systematic review synthesized current research on primary and secondary school teachers’ views toward the English as a lingua franca (ELF) perspective. The evolving status of English as a global language has spurred much discussion among scholars, especially in language education. The so-called ...
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This systematic review synthesized current research on primary and secondary school teachers’ views toward the English as a lingua franca (ELF) perspective. The evolving status of English as a global language has spurred much discussion among scholars, especially in language education. The so-called native speaker was historically considered the standard model for teaching and learning English. However, this ideology has been challenged on several grounds. Efforts have been made to encourage English language teachers to take an ELF perspective. This study used a systematic review method to examine ELF education research using a conceptual framework of three dimensions: language features, English users, and learner needs. First, we examined the methodological approaches and instruments used in previous studies to examine how teachers views toward ELF perspective have been measured. Second, we report findings on teachers’ views toward the ELF perspective to provide insights into its uptake in English language classrooms. The findings highlight areas needing greater attention in teacher preparation and professional development programs.