lakish dialect in darrehshahr belongs to kurdish language (southern kurdish) and is the common dialect of people who live in darrehshehr town of ilam county that is situated in the west part of iran which is highly changing under the influence of standard persian. the present article surveys linguistic relativity with the emphasis on kinship words of the lakish dialect in darrehshahr. firstly, ...

the factor structure of the listening section of a persian language proficiency test (plpt), developed and used for academic purposes, was examined in this study. a structural equation modeling (sem) was employed using amos (v. 18) to analyze the responses of a number of persian language learners (n=120) who participated in the first piloting phase of the test in 2014. to examine whether the li...

this study explored the nature of transfer among bilingual vs. trilinguals with varying levels of competence in english and their previous languages. the hypotheses were tested in writing tasks designed for 75 high (n= 35) vs. intermediate (n=40) proficient efl learners with turkish, persian, english and persian, english linguistic backgrounds. qualitative data were also collected through some ...

the recent increase in the number of publications devoted to teaching the persian language to speakers of other languages and the development of such courses in iran and elsewhere signify a cultural movement. however, one of the shortcomings of this movement pertains to its oblivious stance to persian language proficiency. this paper aims at defining language proficiency bringing its importance...

In this paper, authenticity of English language teaching methods is evaluated with and Without Post-Method Condition. Some defining Communicative Language Teaching are mentioned along with the origin, theoretical background and major characteristic features. Although Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is one of the best and a recent approach in teaching English as foreign / second language a...

the literature has already been a basic component in teaching foreign / second languages curriculum in comparing with other materials, therefore, this forces instructors to use literature for two purposes: first, teaching literature for literature and second , use of literature as a linguistic resource in order to improving language skill of learners, and this is important issue in applied ling...

the development of materials for language teaching has been retraced from different perspectives. for example, some have identified influences of a social view on designing course books and compiling materials for language classes. the purpose of this article is to focus on the specific case of elt material, its design and priorities in the context of iran. this article also offers a detailed a...

The main concern of the present study was to compare Iranian monolingual and bilingual EFL students’ listening comprehension in terms of Latinized Persian subtitling of English movie to see whether there was a significant difference between monolinguals and bilinguals on immediate linguistic comprehension of the movie. Latinized Persian subtitling was representing Persian language in Latin scri...