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...

The present study investigated the use of L2 private speech by English foreign language (EFL) learners in regulating their mental activities. Thirty intermediate adult EFL learners took a test of solving challenging English riddles while their voices were being recorded. Following, instances of the produced private speech were analyzed in terms of form, content, and function. Numerous instances...

after finishing the collection of language elements which they wanted to restrict to the arabian peninsula, after organizing and categorizing them under deliberate subjects which include all the language aspects and finally after fulfilling all those scholastic stages, the syntax scholars found another scholastic stage which they felt obliged to deal with and this stage is ‘cause finding’. they...

how to cite this article: jalili m, jahangiri n, yazdi aa, ashrafzadeh f. the effects of imitative vs. cognitive methods on the speech development of children with autism. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):37-46. objective the present study was performed to examine the effects of two speech therapy methods on six verbal behaviors of autistic children, including oral speech, listening, orga...

Language input is necessary for language learning, yet little is known about whether, in natural environments, the speech style and social context of language input to children impacts language development. In the present study we investigated the relationship between language input and language development, examining both the style of parental speech, comparing 'parentese' speech to standard s...

Communicative language use largely entails regular patterns consisting of pre-constructed phrases or sequences. These sequences have been examined by many researchers to find the situation-based formulas which may help L2 learners follow a possibly more target-like speaking system. This study, therefore, explored two categories of formulaic expressions including speech formulas and situation-bo...

literature is the aesthetic manifestation of language. it is ‘as old as human language and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise.’ this paper explores the interrelationships between language and literature from 600 ad to the present day.  the grammar of present-day english is closely related to that of old english with the same tense formation and word orders. the verse unit is a single line and its org...

abstract textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) context where it provides the primary linguistic input. the present research was an attempt to comparatively evaluate the touchstone series in terms of compliment and complaint speech acts. four touchstone textbooks (book 1, book 2, book 3, and book 4) were selec...