A proposal to teach implicature to intermediate students of English

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

how to teach the suprasegmentals of english to farsi-speakers learning english as a foreign language

the major objective of the present writer is to survey some of the problems that iranian learners of english encounter as to the use of english stress patterns and intonation. it seems rather obvious that the main source of difficulty in the use of english stress and intonation is the interference comingfrom the learners' mother tongue, i.e. persian. the present writer also tries to offer ...

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

the evaluation and comparison of two esp textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine

abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...