The study of lexical bundles, among types of text analysis, is gaining importance over the others in the last century. The present study employed a frequency-based analysis approach to the use of lexical bundles. The ...

The present study aims at discussing whether metaphors in the Qur'an, revealed more than 1400 years ago, are dead, moribund or live and how these three types of metaphors have been translated in three English and three ...

A community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. This study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based ...

This study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between teachers' personality type (feeling vs. thinking) and speaking skill of pre- intermediate EFL students in Iranian context. Twelve teachers and forty eight ...

The application of critical pedagogy in educational contexts has received adequate research attention over the last decades. The main focus of this strand of research has, however, been on raising awareness of the educators. ...

Naming as an inseparable sign of a country's language has attracted the attention of many linguists to formulate and test hypotheses regarding the culture and language of the people of a certain area. Iran appears like a ...

Test method facet is one of the factors which can have an influence on the test takers' performance. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of two different response types, multiple-choice cloze ...

Politeness is a phenomenon which is common to all cultures. Each culture has a different perception of what is polite and each language has various devices for expressing politeness. One of the important aspects of politeness ...