The process of globalization entails the acquisition of a construct, cultural intelligence, with which EFL students can function appropriately in intercultural situations. This study was, first, intended to find the relationship between cultural intelligence and the use of expressions of gratitude by Iranian EFL learners. Second, it sought to determine whether there were any significant differe...

This study aimed to examine cross-cultural differences in performing refusal of requests between Persian native speakers (PNSs) and English native speakers (ENSs) in terms of the frequency of the semantic formulas. Also examined in this study was whether Persian EFL learners would transfer their L1 refusal patterns into the L2, and if there would be a relation between their proficiency level an...

Completeness is a desirable property of test suites. Roughly, completeness guarantees that a nonequivalent implementation under test will always be identified. Several approaches proposed sufficient, and sometimes also necessary, conditions on the specification model and on the test suite in order to guarantee completeness. Usually, these approaches impose several restrictions on the specificat...

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English language learning programs are always evolving to suit the needs of changing demands learners. In Saudi Arabia, solely focused on achieving proficiency through teaching learners’ vocabulary and grammar only, excluding other important constructs such as pragmatics. This research investigates relationship between pragmatic by administering an MDCT (multiple-choice discourse completion tas...

We have developed a discourse level tagging tool for spoken dialogue corpus using machine learning methods. As discourse level information, we focused on dialogue act, relevance and discourse segment. In dialogue act tagging, we have implemented a transformation-based learning procedure and resulted in 70% accuracy in open test. In relevance and discourse segment tagging, we have implemented a ...