Understanding how to structure the “Statement-of-the-Problem” (SP) section of a thesis is necessary for EFL students to develop a logical argumentation for a problem statement. This study intended to compare Move structures of SP sections of theses written by native speakers of Persian (NSPs) and English (NSEs). To this end, 100 SP sections (50 SP sections written by NSE...

this paper reported on a genre-driven comparative study, which aimed to identify the generic moves in the conclusion sections of twenty research articles in the field of sociology written in the two codes of persian and english. to meet this purpose, the researchers employed moritz, meurer, and dellagnelo's model, which was set within the swalesian framework of genre analysis. the analysis...

the present paper aims to examine the role of frequency lexicon in assessing lexical proficiency of persian learners. addressing the frequency distribution pattern of persian words, the research which is conducted in corpus-based method studies the relationship between words and lexical proficiency as well as derives the frequency lexicon from persian corpus. to do so, formal and colloquial per...

Abstract This chapter provides an overview of what is available in ELG terms datasets, corpora and other language resources (LRs) how this has been achieved. We look at the procedures steps that have followed to complete full resource ingestion cycle, which goes from repository LR identification metadata description ingestion. explain approaches, priorities methodology. The also outlines reposi...

Abstract The explosion of the Web leads to production large amounts texts and inevitably influences their quality. Errors that tend occur more often can distort results, especially when are used for scientific purposes, in language teaching or learning. Hence, there is a need examine existing corpora based on web clean up data, which may contain such “noisy” fragments. In our study, we deal wit...