Mehdi Zia

Department of Teaching English Foreign Language, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

[ 1 ] - An Investigation of Gender Differences Between Women’s and Men’s Informal Discussion in Iranian EFL Context

The language used by women and men differ in all speech communities. In order to examine some of these variations, the present study aimed to investigate the differences in an informal written discourse. For this purpose, a comparison between men’s and women’s informal language was made regarding length of utterances, questions, intensifiers, and hedges. Results revealed that men employed highe...

[ 2 ] - An Analysis of Social Presence and Cognitive Presence in Discussion Forum

An increase of asynchronous online discussions in website provides much opportunity for L2 learners from different global communities to be exposed to the target language at their own pace and time. However, no research looking at the essentials of social presence and cognitive presence in creating a supportive learning environment in such a context has been done. This study investigated the pa...

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