The development of materials for language teaching has been retraced from different perspectives. For example, some have identified influences of a social view on designing course books and compiling materials for language classes. The purpose of this article is to focus on the specific case of ELT material, its design and priorities in the context of Iran. This article also offers a detailed a...

in this article , firstly a brief survey of iranian-british official political relations are considered . then , it would be studied cultural relations of two countries in the qajar era .role of the english in these relations are evaluated in sections . first , actors of the relations are noted i four groups in  cluding diplomats , military forces , tourists and other scholars and researchers ....

word formation and word selection in one hand’ are considered from higher processes a word aqualization which has a wide range application for language theorists and researchers in order to enrich language or in a better way in order to set free them from words. inadequacy challenge and also lach of the knowledge of the words in technology and industry fields aspecially in arabic and persian sp...

arabic language has become a global language in a significant period of time and has been distributed all around the world by developing islam in the world. this language moved to china, middle east, egypt, and north of africa and finally arrived to southwest of europe. the people of arabian peninsula have flattened the path of civilization by quran’s language so that other genius nations of th...

  This study aspires to examine the concept of ellipsis by comparing and contrasting English and Persian written texts. For this purpose, three Persian novels and three English ones were selected. These novels were analyzed carefully; they were compared and contrasted for types and amount of ellipsis used, through a Chi-square analysis.  The results of the data analysis revealed that various t...

some believe that language and literature are two independent systems while others hold that the two areas are not independent of each other. the present study has tried to demonstrate that persian poetry is closely tied with the language by evaluating the influence of scrambling, word order, complex predicates, subject-verb agreement as well as some supersegmental features in hafez’s works as ...

Multilingual corpora are valuable resources for cross-language information retrieval and are available in many language pairs. However the Persian language does not have rich multilingual resources due to some of its special features and difficulties in constructing the corpora. In this study, we build a Persian-English comparable corpus from two independent news collections: BBC News in Englis...

the main objective of the present study is to elaborate the contrasts between males and females in their use of different strategies of complaint in english and persian and ascertain the degree to which independent variables like gender and language affect the application of these strategies during informal communication. furthermore, it offers comparable corpora which provide a good basis for ...

In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. Metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...