In this paper, we propose a genre taxonomy as a knowledge repository of communicative structures or “typified actions” enacted by organizational members. The Genre taxonomy aims at helping people to make sense of diverse types of communicative actions, and has three features to achieve this objective. First, the genre taxonomy represents the elements of both genres and genre systems, sequences ...

Centers of Arabic culture and literature the Middle Ages were established in Spain. This is related to Arab expansion Iberian Peninsula, which lasted for almost eight centuries. During this time, Arabs together with Berbers, as well Arabized local Visigoths, able spread language Andalusia. In Spain, centers created. From eighth century, when settled area expanded. Cordova, Granada, Almeria, Val...

abstract the present study examined the effect of genre-based tasks on efl learners' speaking performance and probed whether genre-based tasks may empower efl learners to perform better on speaking tests. a further concern of the study was to explore whether the effect of genre-based tasks on speaking ability of efl learners varied across different age groups, i.e. teenagers (13-16 years o...

Bahaodoleh Razi Tarashti was born in taTarasht village of Rey (in northwest of present Tehran). He ended up the medical education in Rey and trend to practicing and learning medicine contemporary as spiritual guide of Noorbakhshi group. Although the birthday of Bahaodoleh is not clear exactly, bases on evidences, he probably has been killed in fractional struggle by agents of king Esmaeel Safav...

Task difficulty across different macro-genres continues to remain among less attended areas in second language development studies. This study examined the correlation between task difficulty across the descriptive, narrative, argumentative, and expository macro-genres. The three components of task difficulty (i.e., code complexity, cognitive complexity, and communicative stress) were also comp...