the writing skill is often perceived as the most difficult language skill since it requires a higher level of productive language control than other skills (celce-murcia & olshtain, 2000). the present study introduced a discourse-based framework for the teaching of writing on the basis systemic functional linguistics (sfl). to this end, 60 students majoring in teaching english as a foreign ...

formulaic sequence (fs) is a general term often used to refer to various types of recurrent clusters. one particular type of fss common in different registers is lexical bundles (lbs). this study investigated whether lbs are stored and processed as a whole in the mind of language users and whether their functional discourse type has any effect on their processing. to serve these objectives, thr...

the purpose of this study is to examine the meaning transformation of despotism signifier from safavid era to the rising of iranian despotism discourse in qajar era. the method is archaeology and the study is focused on the relations of the meaning transformation with discourse practices. pre-modern texts were investigated for the significance of despotism. the results suggested that these sign...

Abstract Previous studies have found that but and so occur frequently in native non-native English speakers’ speech they are easy to acquire by speakers. The current study compared ideational pragmatic functions of speakers English. Data for the were gathered using individual sociolinguistic interviews with five ten L1 Chinese results suggest even though acquired as well speakers, underused the...

the distinguished gender language of the dominant gender discourse in the social atmosphere of iran, as one of the most influential phenomenon determining the linguistic and non-linguistic actions of individuals, has been appeared in the popular magazines. it seems that the ruling ideology of the dominant gender discourse is to construct and use the self-made gender view that preserves its inte...

In view of the paucity of evidence on teachers’ conceptions of teaching English an International Language (EIL), the present study used panel discussions to investigate the beliefs of 10 native and 10 non-native English-speaking teachers about their roles in teaching English in the EIL contexts and the perceptions of EIL. The findings revealed that some aspects of teachers’ beliefs about their ...

this study compared the types of requesting strategies (rss) employed by thirty three persian native speakers (pnss) students at payame-noor university (pnu) in tehran, thirty seven persian lower-intermediate learners (plls) and thirty seven persian upper-intermediate learners (puls) students at persian center of imam khomeini international university (ikiu) in qazvin in order to study to what ...

the power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van dijk 1996). this potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. the major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...


 This study examines the cognitive information processes that Turkish advanced non-native speakers of English employ in assigning referents this and reading production. We predicted these would assign relation to linear distance between discourse-linked anaphors their discourse (i.e., based on spatial-temporal features that), which means they prefer for a referent mentioned proximal chunk...