Editorial, Volume 9, Issue 2

Bahram Behin

Volume 9, Issue 2 , October 2021, , Pages 1-2

Abstract
  Dear JALDA ReaderThe job being done by the young and zealous members of the team behind The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature can be regarded as a reflection of what happens generally in Iran in relation to English language.  With a fire of enthusiasm burning inside young adults ...  Read More

Editorial, Volume 9, Issue 1

Bahram Behin

Volume 9, Issue 1 , April 2021, , Pages 1-3

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2021.27250.1312

Abstract
  In this editorial, the segregationalist view of academic disciplines is criticized and the transdisciplinary nature of studies in language education is highlighted. No doubt knowledge of teaching methods, such as those invented according to the expertise in the 70s and 80s, for instance, can be regarded ...  Read More

Editorial, Volume 8, Issue 2
Volume 8, Issue 2 , October 2020, , Pages 1-2

https://doi.org/10.22049/JALDA.2020.14128

Abstract
  JALDA has been officially recognized as a Scientific Grade B Journal by Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology recently. A main interest of the Journal lies in the contextualized sense of science; the studies should take place in real world contexts and they should be intended to help ...  Read More

Editorial, Volume 8, Issue 1

Bahram Behin

Volume 8, Issue 1 , April 2020, , Pages 1-2

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2020.26841.1180

Abstract
  A new vocabulary item has been added to English dictionaries: Covid-19. For linguists, the addition of a meaningful linguistic element to any language should change the whole language as, for T. S. Eliot, a new poem changes the whole literature of a nation. But let us see how seriously the addition of ...  Read More

Editorial Volume 5, Issue1

Bahram Behin

Volume 5, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 1-2

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2018.26340.1089

Abstract
  Applied Literature, however, does not have literature at its centre. Literature in this domain is a tool to solve problems and achieve goals. Using literature to teach and learn languages, the application of literature to language education, is a very handy example. Health Humanities (by Crawford, et ...  Read More