Editorial…

Dear readers,

We are pleased to present August edition of NELTA ELT Forum. In this issue, we are delighted to have contributions from Nepal and Venezuela, focused on teachers’ reflections concerning the implementation of learner-centred teaching, and the analysis of mood and modality, as interpersonal macro functions performed in a movie dialogue.

Anil Prasad Bhusal, author of the article Some Prospects and Misconceptions of Learner-Centered Teaching (LCT) in the Nepalese Classroom, explores how teachers conceptualize LCT and the common misconceptions students, parents and teachers have about LCT. Bhusal states that schools have to play a significant role to help teachers get both knowledge and skills to implement learner-centered approach. In that way, teachers can help learners develop higher order thinking skills from early grades.

On the other hand, Jairo Vásquez in his article, Mood and Modality: Available Choices within the Interpersonal Macrofunction of Language presents his analysis of a five-minute conversation taken from the movie “Captain America: Civil War” in terms of mood and modality systems. He shows evidence of how each character developed its personal interests through language and how a specific speaker was predominant over the others through the grammatical choices he made.

To have easy access to the aforementioned articles you may use the following links:

1. Some Prospects and Misconceptions of Learner-Centered Teaching (LCT) in the Nepalese Classroom, by Anil Prasad Bhusal
2. Mood and Modality: Available Choices within the Interpersonal Macrofunction of Language by Jairo Vásquez

We hope that the articles included in this issue may contribute to reflection and future research and may enhance a critical perspective about the learner-centered approach and discourse analysis on cultural and artistic representations.

Issue editors,

Maricarmen Gamero and Noel Franco