Language learning strategies, “the techniques or devices which a learner may use to acquire knowledge” (Rubin, 1975, p. 43) or more pertinently “complex, dynamic thoughts and actions, selected and used by learners with some degree of consciousness in specific contexts” (Oxford, 2017, p. 48), have been widely researched and discussed for more than forty years since the mid-1970s. Shifting the fo...

social interaction requires the ability to understand people’s mental states (their intentions, desires and believes). the ability for attributing mental states is called “theory of mind.” theory of mind leads the person to explain and predict behavior. researchers showed a great interest in the relation of language and mind/language and thought. some researchers focused on methodological conce...

this paper is concerned with the analysis of the spoken language of teenagers, taken from a newly developed specialised corpus the british and taiwanese teenage intercultural communication corpus (batticc). more specifically, the study employs a discourse analytical approach to examine vague language in an intercultural context among a group of british and taiwanese adolescents, paying particul...

this study constitutes an attempt to see what language assessment literacy (lal) isfor three groups of stakeholders, namely lal test developers, lal instructors, andlal test-takers. the perceptions of the former group were derived from the contentanalysis of the latest version of the lal test, and those of the latter 2 groups wereassessed through a survey designed by the researcher. participant...

background: developmental sentence scoring (dss) was developed as a numerical measurement and a clinical method based on the morphosyntactic acquisition in the english language. the aim of this study was to develop a new numerical tool similar to dss to assess the morphosyntactic abilities in persian-speaking children.   methods:  in this cross-sectional and comparative study, the language samp...

background this article tries to determine some cases of arabicism in medical texts, through citing evidence from some persian medical texts and also tries to show their significant role in the process of correction, translation, and the revision of the ancient medical texts and its ensuing research and writing of new works based on the old ones. the importance of arabicism in medical text is t...

as the arabic formal language is the national unifier that unites the sons of the arabs, so that it is a common language and the one of the holy quran, ideological inherited, and the language of science and knowledge, vulgar dialects in different arab countries, however, differ to the extent that, for example, a man from one of the eastern arab countries isn't able to find out the accent o...