Background: Autism as part of the category called Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is caused by disorders in brain and nervous network and characterized by defect in social behavior, language and cognition. This study aimed to investigate receptive and expressive language performance and the severity of the disorder in 30 children with autism aged 2-8 years who speak in Persian language. Materi...

The present study aims to consider the linguistic influence of official standard Persian language on idiom comprehension focusing on parts of body comprehension of Kurdish EFL learners. Most of the Kurds have studied in schools in which the language spoken or written has been different from their mother tongue. The present study is based on data from 92 EFL learners whom Kurdish is their first ...

The purpose of STIL is to provide a common language for the representation of test patterns and waveforms that are created from the simulation of a digital integrated circuit. The language represents the data in terms of intent (i.e., the waveform that is to be created at the device under test), rather than in terms of a specific piece of ATE hardware. The language is flexible enough to represe...

An increasing number of studies have demonstrated how language textbooks serve as an arena for ideological reproduction. Following the theory ideology, this paper aims to examine representation English in a textbook targeting Chinese university students China. Data were subjected content analysis and critical discourse regarding their reference embodied identity options, images, case studies, c...

Turkish loanwords are an indispensable part of the Serbian vocabulary, represented in literary language as well everyday communication. After interlinguistic contact between and has ended, some turkisms became archaic; others remained unchanged, while began to develop their semantic meanings according nature logic language. The period history Ottoman Empire left deep traces, not only language, ...

Home language (HL) effects on academic literacy have been extensively discussed. However, previous research has mostly focused Indo–European languages. This study extends the literature by using data ( n = 17,600) collected in a diversified area: Guangxi, China. We examined of four HLs and socioeconomic factors modern standard written Chinese as an outcome across three developmental levels (age...