Subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) is an area which deserves a special attention as it ena- bles these people to access to the part of the ‘world’ intended for hearing people, including the world of ‘motion pictures’, and particularly movie sounds. Compared to linguistic sounds, non-linguistic sounds have received little attention in the field of translation, although they are in...

the present study sought to investigate the evidence for cross-linguistic transfer in a partial english immersion and non-immersion educational setting. to this end, a total of 145 first, third and fifth graders in a partial english immersion program and 95 students from the same grade levels in a non-immersion program were chosen. six different english and persian tests were administered: the ...

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this study investigated iranian english language learners’ use of circumlocution for culture-specific referents. a discourse completion test (dct) was designed in english and persian, consisting of items dealing with iranian culture-specific notions and distributed among 3 groups. the persian language group received the persian version, whereas the english language learners, divided into high a...

Resistance to Western Culture can be seen through translator’s strategy of translating novels. This research aims analyze the translation culture-specific items in Indonesian translated versions Of Mice and Men, originally written by John Steinbeck. The selected belong work Pramoedya Ananta Toer (2003) Ariyantri E. Tarman (2017). translations are analyzed under Transnational American Studies pa...

The term native-like proficiency in English refers to the ability speak language like a native speaker. This study was conducted investigate Afghan major undergraduate students’ attitudes toward at two public universities Afghanistan. specifically investigated of students characteristics speaker language, speakers’ linguistic imperialism, and language. A mixed research design used for study. qu...

the study investigates to give an analysis of literary text through a contrastive analysis of some linguistic form frequencies in the texts. three short stories , two english short stories by ernest hemingway and bruce holland rogers and a persian short story by sadeq choubak, have been analyzed for this paper. the study indicates that, by contrasting some linguistic elements, one can describe ...

linguistic/cultural differences of learners’ native language with english as a foreign language, gender and english proficiency level are among those numerous variables which affect english learning and its quality in iranian context. the present study was an attempt to illuminate the effects of these variables on performing integrative approach of general english tests (cloze test and recall t...