Dynamic Assessment (DA), which stems from Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, invests in the mediation of teacher to improve learners' Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). This study investigated the impact of DA on the ...

Unlike conversation, academic writing is characterized by the frequent use of noun phrases which make it difficult for less proficient readers to process a text. Using a subset of Biber, Gray, and Poonpon's (2011) hypothesized ...

Although extensive research has been carried out on the important source of self -compassion in reducing stress and enhancing job-related affective well-being, no single study exists to investigate the correlation between ...

This study was an attempt to shed light on the formulaic nature of the language of theoretical review articles. The study was based on a corpus of 517 English review articles from linguistics and applied linguistics ...

Professionalism has been generally linked to nations' economic, industrial, and technological developments. Therefore, having a professionally and ethically competent workforce is a necessity in today's changing world. ...

Although the existing research has advanced our understating of sociological issues such as translators' prefaces, a paucity of studies into languages of limited diffusion, including Persian is strongly felt. To partly ...

The present study on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) textbook evaluation was an attempt to investigate the students and teachers' perceptions of the textbook English for Students of Chemical Engineering, first ...