Issues related to bilingualism and the effects which might have on language learners' cognitive and meta-cognitive variables have attracted the attention of a couple of researchers in the field of Second Language Acquisition ...

There has been increasing interest in utilizing corpora in linguistic research and pedagogy in recent years. Rhetorical organization of different sections of research articles may appear similar in various disciplines, but ...

The present study has aimed at finding out whether or not students' language background and gender bring about a distinction between the frequency and types of metadiscourse elements occurring in their papers. To this end, ...

The present study aims to investigate the probable relationship between self-regulated strategies and home cultural attachment among Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. To ...

Textbooks considered as one of the most important genres of academic writings would guarantee effective teaching and learning in EFL/ESL courses. Since textbooks are gaining more and more importance, the knowledge of their ...

The present research was an attempt to shed more enlightening light on the current wave of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), which is gradually sweeping the traditional ideologies in the field of ELT. To that end, this ...