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 ...

Although a surfeit of studies have examined the students' attitude towards foreign and / or second language both inside and outside Iran, it seems scanty studies have been devoted to evaluate Prospect-trained students' ...

This study investigated the impact of writing checklist on composing descriptive essays among EFL learners at the intermediate level. Sixty participants were assigned to experimental and control groups. Both groups were ...

This study investigated the effectiveness of discourse structure-based graphic organizers (GOs) on students' reading comprehension. Seventy learners were randomly divided in two equal experimental and control groups. They ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As an analytical type of approach, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) deals with the emphasis on social practice, identity, power, and ideology built through text and speech in socio-political and educational contexts. ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a futuristic, science fiction novel that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans, projecting the United States' colonial and immigrant past on to a symbolic future. ...

In today's world, literature does not seem to be merely a piece of art for human's spiritual excellence, but is something likely controlled subtly and already planned for a specific purpose and specific audience. Through ...

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 ...

Without knowing the speech act functions, it would be difficult to make correct requests in a language. Studies in pragmalinguistics have shown that conventionally direct and indirect requestive patterns are perceived ...

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 ...

This study investigated the translation strategies of culture-specific items in translation of 'Othello' by William Shakespeare into Persian by Abdolhossein Nooshin. First, the English culture-specific items and their ...