background: all recent accident models emphasis on multi causality of accidents. the suggested models emphasized on human roles in accident occurrence. the results of recent decade's studies have shown that the main causes of accidents are human and his/her unsafe acts. nowadays, application of warning signs is an important way to decrease unsafe acts . methods: in this study, the unsafe acts o...

Without knowing the speech act functions, it would be difficult to make correct requests in a language. Studies in pragmalinguistics have shown that conventionally direct and indirect requestive patterns are perceived differently in different speech communities. This study investigates the perception of the requestive speech acts by Persian native speakers to determine the socially appropriate ...

Few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. This study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. To this end, 60...