Despite its sociopolitical basis, Academic Literacy (AL) is recently referred to as a set of complex skills such as writing, which lays undeniable foundations for success in academic communities (Hyland& Lyons, 2002). ...

This study employed the Linguistic Proximity Model (LPM) to investigate the effect of cross-linguistic influence (CLI), target language proficiency as well as their interaction in the acquisition of L3 English past perfect, ...

Miscommunication has been reported as a major contributing factor to aviation mishaps. About 70% of the first 28000 reports to NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System were related to communication problems (Sexton, 1999). ...

The present study aimed to analyze the postmodern features of Slaughterhouse-Five, authored by Kurt Vonnegut, and its two Persian translations by Bahrami and Abbasi. To this end, Lewis's classification of postmodern features ...

Capitalism benefits from the uniformed society by suppressing individuals 'consciousness through commodifying them. Being deceived by the system, individuals get stuck in the culture industry (the mass production of cultural ...

This study is a descriptive piece of research attempting to compare and contrast the use of two types of cohesive devices (i.e., lexical cohesion and ellipsis) in the original dialogues of a television series with the ...

Appraisal theory has provided researchers with a powerful analytical tool to explore how language users express their feelings, attitude and judgments in texts. The present study was conducted to explore the use of appraisals ...

In this study, challenges in the translation of Islamic Shi'a texts of practical laws were investigated. The English translations of the books of Islamic laws written according to three Iranian Twelver Shi'a mujtahids ...

Having its roots in science, “chaos theory" provides a new strategy to examine the disordered world of postmodern novels to find the hidden order underlying the apparent chaos. This study tries to clarify the ambiguous ...

Textbook evaluation serves as a useful tool at teachers‘ disposal to cope with uncertainty in opting for the proper material prior to embarking on their teaching career. This study aims at comparing two different ESP ...

Many studies, today, support the position of Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory (SCT) and its promising contributions to the field of second language learning and teaching. Parallel to this line of inquiry, drawing upon three ...

Being able to communicate effectively is the optimal goal of all language learners; therefore, despite difficulties they face and restrictions they have while expressing themselves, they rely on employing diverse communication ...

Computer technology has provided language testers with opportunity to develop computerized versions of traditional paper-based language tests. New generation of TOEFL and Cambridge IELTS, BULATS, KET, PET are good examples ...

This study compares the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated feedback (specifically using ChatGPT) and human feedback in improving the writing performance of B2-level IELTS candidates. A mixed-methods ...

Lexical bundles, frequent word combinations that commonly occur in different registers, have attracted researchers in corpus linguistics in the last decade. While most previous studies of bundles have been mainly concerned ...

This study aims to investigate the relative effectiveness of self-revision, peer revision, and teacher revision on the writing performance of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. A total of 60 intermediate level ...

In this study, corpus-based techniques were utilized in order to investigate the quantitative and qualitative features of adjectives across literary and technical texts. The corpus was composed of five literary novels and ...

The goal of this study was to compare the use of conceptual metaphors in English novels written by native and nonnative writers of English. Therefore, two novels were selected: To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, a native ...

Stress and anxiety might be destructive factors in the learning or teaching journey. Enough research is required to overcome the difficulties and understand the depth of these problems. The aim of the current study was ...

The traditional face-to-face language school has been replaced with online schooling by virtue of the COVID-19 outbreak. However, recent studies have significantly covered teachers' emotional attitudes toward online ...