objectives: profound hearing loss encounters children with delay in speech and language. as it is known language acquisition in young deaf children is a lengthy process, but cochlear implanted children have better spoken language skills than if they had not received the device. according to the importance of cochlear implant in deaf child's language development, this study evaluates the ef...

purpose: the present study seeks to explore the effects of general language proficiency, text readability, and medical knowledge on comprehending medical texts. material & method: 63 medical students in the second year of their study were randomly selected from the english language classes. they answered 100 multiple-choice questions on grammar and vocabulary to establish the level of language ...

in view of native/nonnative language teacher dichotomy, different characteristics have been assigned to these 2 groups. the dichotomy has been the source of different actions and measures to clarify the positive and negative points of being (non)native teachers. in recent years, many researchers have revisited this dichotomy. the challenge to the dichotomy can be a source of motivation to explo...

introduction: in early typical language development, children understand words before they are able to use them in speech. children with autism spectrum disorders (asd) generally show impairments in both the comprehension and the production of language. however, the relative degree of delay or impairment in each of these sub-domains may also be atypical and remains less well-understood. materia...

introduction: the purpose of this study was comparison of three different methods of presenting tv programs and their impacts on receptive language of deaf people in two stages of consideration in isfahanian population. (1- providing program by sign language and lip reading method; presented by a deaf interpreter 2- providing program by lip reading method; presented by a tv broadcaster 3- provi...

mystical language with its different kinds is the language that gnostics express their experiences, affections, eminent and deep mystical senses. the purpose of this article is to study the features of shams tabrizi’s mythical language. this study will make the reader more familiar with the language of mawlana and will lead him to a better understanding of mawlana’s instructions. it will also p...