introduction: in this paper we report on clinical linguistic applications of several versions of the bilingual aphasia test (bat) and the persian aphasia battery (pab) developed to assess patterns of recovery and language impairments in monolingual and bilingual aphasics with different clinical histories living in iran. methods: the participants are adult monolingual native speakers of persian ...

the recent increase in the number of publications devoted to teaching the persian language to speakers of other languages and the development of such courses in iran and elsewhere signify a cultural movement. however, one of the shortcomings of this movement pertains to its oblivious stance to persian language proficiency. this paper aims at defining language proficiency bringing its importance...

Objectives: Speech diadochokinesis (DDK) is defined as the ability to produce repetitive and fast oral movements. The aim of this study is to compare the DDK rate between young and elderly Persian adults. Methods: In this study, 244 normal adults (122 males and 122 females) were divided two groups: young people (aged 20-49) and elderly people(aged 50-69). Diadochokinesis was performed based on...

This study was a cross-sectional investigation into the request strategies used by Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language and Australian native speakers of English. The sample involved 96 BA and MA Persian students and 10 native speakers of English. A Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was used to generate data related to the request strategies used by each group. Selection of request s...

Using modern, electronic technology to promote the culture and worldview of technology producers and to subjugate its consumers is the gist of what McPhail (2006) calls electronic colonialism theory (ECT). As an example of electronic technology, Internet-mediated English educational materials are rapidly growingbut they do not appear to have been critically analyzed in terms of their potential ...

This study describes  working  memory and developing and validating of an  L1 Persian reading span test for the measurement of working  memory of L1 Persian EFL learners. The test, which included  64  Persian  sentences,  was  developed  based  on  Daneman  and Carpenter’s (1980) reading  span  test.  The  shortcomings  of  the  test  were  identified  and  removed  over  three  pilot studies  ...

The purpose of this article is to determine the phonemic status of [h] and [ʔ] in the Sistani dialect of Miyankangi. Auditory tests applied to the relevant data show that [ʔ] occurs mainly in word-initial position, where it stands in free variation with Ø. The only place where [h] is heard is in Arabic and Persian loanwords, and only in the pronunciation of some speakers who are educated and/or...

unlike the languages we know, some of the arabic sentences form without any verbs. arab grammarians call these sentences, which contain a subject and a predicate without any linking verbs, nominal sentences. examining theses sentences indicates that their predicate is composed of one of the following words or structures: 1. noun, 2. prepositional phrase, 3. an adverb of time or place, 4. a nomi...