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This study examines Equivalence, an approach that has been largely discussed, and Skopos Theory which was suggested by Hans J. Vermeer. To that end, scientific findings on this topic, as well as analogical and distinctive characteristics... more

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- Translation Studies, Translation, Skopostheorie, Equivalence

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on smallholder farmers’ market participation focusing on cash/food crops and livestock in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with special attention on the methodological approaches employed in this region in an attempt to x-ray these methods, identifying their advantages and limitations and possible means smallholder farmers would be able to transit from subsistence to commercialised agriculture capable of lifting them out of poverty trap that seems to have engulfed many rural SSA. This paper recommends interventions geared towards improving smallholder farmers’ organisation, producers’ association and ensuring appreciable reduction in transaction costs and also improving farmers’ access to productive assets and improved technologies capable of stimulating profitable smallholders’ market participation.

This is a course book for the would-be teachers of English. It is also useful for in-service teachers and teacher trainers. It tackles the problems of ELT
in the Egyptian context. It also covers some of the revisited, methodological approaches to teaching English such as the grammar-translation
method and the audiolingual method. Further, it traces the streams that helped in the appearance and development of the communicative approach, its implementational constraints, tasks and activities, and its assumptions. The book also presents a simple strategy for integrating teaching the four language skills and provides two exemplary lessons to demonstrate how to make use of the proposed strategy in the
classroom. It ends up with a thorough description of eclecticism. This
includes the empirical factors behind eclecticism and its assumptions. Finally, the book stresses and establishes two pedagogical assumptions in English methodology: (1) there is no best method, and (2) teachers tend to
cross methodological approaches in the classroom. This book is partially
based on a part of a Ph.D. dissertation conducted by the author at Manchester University.

- by Mohamed I Abu-Rahmah
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- Teacher Education, Eclecticism, Post-Method Pedagogy, TEFL, ELT, TESoL

The notion of culture is a complex multidisciplinary concept in pedagogical research. Pedagogical culture as a subsystem within the general culture of teacher’s personality is observed in the article given from the point of view of different methodological approaches. The authors generalize basic theoretical approaches to understanding pedagogical culture essence and content in home and foreign studies. Pedagogical culture is viewed from the perspective of culturological, axiological, personal activity, and acmeological and system approach. This theoretical research aims at generalization of different viewpoints on the pedagogical culture component structure. The authors distinguish pedagogical culture structure and content complexity in particular. The results of foreign studies considering this notion as competent teacher’s characteristics, who effectively applies knowledge in pedagogical activity, are given in the article. Finally, the definition of pedagogical culture as complex multidisciplinary formation, created within teacher’s pedagogical activity, is given.

- by Vicky Johnson
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- Political Science, Methodological Approaches