The year of 2006-2007 issue contains a myth or legend well-known in one of the five countries: Ireland. England, the USA. South Africa and Australia. Legends, folk stories and myths are important to the understanding of a culture, and we hope you'll enjoy those we have chosen to represent each of these countries. We enjoyed researching the articles for you, and we hope we have chosen great poets from each country for the Literature section whose works represent the myths and legends.
Origamics: Mathematical Explorations Through Paper Folding
The art of origami, or paper folding, is carried out using a square piece of paper to obtain attractive figures of animals, flowers or other familiar figures. It is easy to see that origami has links with geometry. Creases and edges represent lines, intersecting creases and edges make angles, while the intersections themselves represent points. Because of its manipulative and experiential nature, origami could become an effective context for the learning and teaching of geometry.
Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as an English 'everyman', his performances crossed the class divide and, in his easy transition from below decks to above, he came to represent a newly democratic masculine ideal.
Grammatical Categories: Variation in Romance Languages
Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'lexicalist' stance, the authors argue that lexical items are not epiphenomena, but really represent the mapping of sound to meaning (and vice versa) that classical conceptions imply.
This text explores new topics and revisits recurring ones in the discipline of English as a second language (ESL). The volume mainly examines what is being accomplished in the field today with a fresh and practical look. Various chapters also address English as a foreign language (EFL) issues. The twenty-eight contributors represent many continents of the world either by birth or by living in a country other than the U.S.
