AbstractThe interference of the native language in acquiring a foreign language is unavoidable. In an attempt to explore the phenomenon why this occurs, the study was conducted in English as a foreign language writing. The study also investigated how the native language interference occurred in the writing process. In fact, this qualitative study explored the reasons and the process of na...

The study of compliment speech act has been under investigation on many occasions in recent years. In this study, an attempt is made to explore appraisals performed by native English speakers and Iranian EFL learners to find out how these two groups diverge or converge from each other with regard to complimenting patterns and norms. The participants of the study were 60 advanced Iranian EFL lea...

Recent research has shown that academic writing is not ‘author-evacuated’ but, rather, carries a representation of the writers’ identity. One way through which writers project their identity in academic writing is stance-taking toward propositions advanced in the text. Appropriate stance-taking has proved to be challenging for novice writers of Research Articles (RAs), especially those writing ...

English teachers are frequently asked to help colleagues prepare presentations for international conferences. Sometimes this assistance takes the form of a language course or tutorials focusing on the spoken language. Contact time is short but the participants are highly motivated. What type of pronunciation work will provide the greatest payoff in terms of successfully being understood when sp...

This study analyzes the use of multimedia tools to teach English in non-English speaking nations and highlights issues that teachers students confront. A better instrument for exploration a novel teaching approach has been increasingly growing scientific techniques such as technology. Multimedia technology, particular, non-native language contexts, plays an essential role education. It also int...

Abstract Although the teaching of English to primary school children has been rapidly growing in many English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) countries around world, a shortage specialist teachers remains persistent challenge. Consequently, non-specialists, such as homeroom initially trained generalists, are more often required teach English. The present study, focusing on 304 non-specialist servin...

We have previously proposed a statistical method for estimating the pronunciation proficiency and intelligibility of presentations made in English by non-native speakers. To investigate the relationship between various acoustic measures and the pronunciation score and intelligibility, we statistically analyzed the speaker’s actual utterances to find combinations of acoustic features with a high...

Native-speakerism is an ideology that endows those classified as native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) the owners of English language, ideal models its use, and pedagogical experts in language teaching. These endowments, turn, intrinsically devalue non-native (NNESTs) (Holliday, 2006, 2017). In this study, a trioethnographic approach was adopted to investigate native-speakerism it related li...