An increase of asynchronous online discussions in website provides much opportunity for L2 learners from different global communities to be exposed to the target language at their own pace and time. However, no research ...

The existence of cultural gaps causes problems in translation process and harms the aesthetic aspects of texts. In this paper, it was tried to recognize the factors which cause inconsistency between the style of original ...

The present research aimed at investigating the interaction of the classroom talk to have a better understanding of the teachers' practice teaching which can pave the way for reflection on teaching. The study benefitted ...

Academic writing might incorporate evaluative strategies with the aim of construing and registering attitudinal positionings of writers towards other people, objects, and state of affairs included in the texts, and has ...

Academic writing is typically encoded by relatively negotiable and arguable resources indicating the potentially dialogistic nature of its discourse community, and has been the area of investigation from different perspectives. ...

This study investigated two major types of metadiscourse markers as used in typical sales contracts, written by English natives and Iranian non-natives. In so doing, 60 sales contracts were selected, 30 written by native ...

The purpose of this study was to compare metadiscourse markers in forty English and Persian university lectures. Twenty of them were selected from the British Academic Spoken English corpus. The other 20 were selected from ...

Framed in Farahzad's (2009) critical discourse analysis (CDA) model, the present research aimed at analyzing these influences in two Persian translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at micro and macro ...

The present investigation sought to comparatively explore the effect of length of residence (LOR) as well as EFL instruction on the pragmatic competence of Iranian learners. The participants were 45 EFL learners in Iran ...

The present paper investigated the effect of teacher's follow‐up move approach on Iranian EFL learners' conversation quality. Ninety students were selected in a senior high school in Poldokhtar, Iran. Through an oral test ...

With the growth in sociality and interaction around touching national and international topics, news sites are increasingly becoming places for communities to discuss and address issues spurred by news articles. Proponents ...

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which ...

The present study investigated the way elementary school teachers perceive the importance of phonological awareness in their classroom experiences. To achieve the aim, 75 elementary school teachers of both genders with ...

The aim of the present article is to probe the functions of the cultural schema of Ta'ne (sarcasm) in Persian. Results from 100 recorded instantiations of Ta'ne accumulated through ethnographic approach indicated that it ...

An emotion icon, better known as emoticon is a metacommunicative pictorial representation of a facial expression that, in the absence of body language and prosody, serves to draw a receiver's attention to the tenor or ...

Learning strategies play leading roles on students' understanding information and solving problems. Not being aware of learning strategies and their use may lead to students' failure. Furthermore, conducting research on ...

The language used by women and men differ in all speech communities. In order to examine some of these variations, the present study aimed to investigate the differences in an informal written discourse. For this purpose, ...

This study aimed at investigating the English textese of Iranian EFL learners by scrutinizing the linguistic features through a qualitative design. In doing so, 700 messages were collected from 43 MA Iranian EFL learners ...

Critical discourse analysis as a type of social practice reveals how linguistic choices enable speakers to manipulate the realizations of agency and power in the representation of action.The present study examines the ...

This study was an attempt to investigate Iranian and Spanish intermediate nonnative English learners' request strategies to their faculty. To this aim, 74 (50 Iranian and 24 Spanish) nonnative English intermediate learners ...