the present study was carried on to investigate the use of face-keeping strategies in reaction to complaints by male and female in two different cultures, persian and american english. to see if apology strategies are affected by cultural, contextual preferences and gender of interlocutors in two distinct languages of persian and american english. the hypotheses to be tested were 1) ifids, acce...

the aim of this study was to identify the problems of translating markedness structures from english to persian in order to look closely at what possible difficulties translators may face. it also seeks to probe the strategies applied accordingly by iranian translators in translating them. from three translation of blindness novel, the sentences with marked structures were elicited and also the...

تحقیق حاضر کوششی بود در جهت (الف) مشخص نمودن استراتژیهایی که دانشجویان و دانش آموزان ایرانی برای یادگیری زبان انگلیسی بطور عام و یادگیری واژگان بطور خاص مورد استفاده قرار می دهند، (ب) پیدا کردن ارتباط معنادار مابین استراتژیهای یادگیری زبان انگلیسی و واژگان انگلیسی از یک طرف و سطح توانایی زبانی فراگیران از طرف دیگر. (ج) پی بردن به تغییرات معناداری که بواسطه سن، جنس ، قومیت ، سالهای یادگیری زبان ...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between fear of negative evaluation (fne) and communication strategies (css) among iranian efl learners. it was aimed to examine the differences in the use of communication strategies between speakers with high or low degree of fear of negative evaluation. the current study was a case study consisting of 10 english learners at...

this study investigates the strategies native english and persian speakers employ for expressing gratitude in different situations. the strategies of persian efl learners are also compared with english strategies in order to find the differences that may exist between these two languages. social status and size of imposition of the favor are social variables which are investigated in detail for...