This study intended to develop a model describing speaking strategies for EFL learners by taking into account the effects of learners' gender and proficiency on the application of strategies. Accordingly, this study was ...

The major argument of this essay is that Kipling treats the colonial subject as the "other," and Forster proves to be almost as pro-Empire as writers like Kipling. Nevertheless, A Passage to India is eloquent in rejecting ...

The study of teachers' pedagogical knowledge base (PKB) to discover how teachers think and work is attracting increasing attention in ELT. Against this background, the present study aimed at probing the likely variations ...

The present study examines the effect of gender ideology of the translators on two Persian translations of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. The findings reveal that although both translations have many similar features ...

One tactful strategy in political rhetoric is hedging which is associated with vagueness and innuendos. Despite the studies that address hedging in academic discourse and conversation analysis, studies that investigate ...

This study examined the establishment of coherence relations by Persian EFL learners in their reading of stories. 201 undergraduate EFL learners read narrative passages and selected appropriate coherence elements of different ...