abstract this study aimed at investigating the effect of bilingual teaching of cognate words (persian-english) on iranian upper intermediate efl learners’ knowledge of lexical development. for this purpose,100 subjects participated in this study out of which 40 learners were selected for this study and they were assigned into two groups, control and experimental. cross-language cognates (wor...

the present study was carried on to investigate the use of face-keeping strategies in reaction to complaints by male and female in two different cultures, persian and american english. to see if apology strategies are affected by cultural, contextual preferences and gender of interlocutors in two distinct languages of persian and american english. the hypotheses to be tested were 1) ifids, acce...

cat and mouse: similar stories in persian literature   h. zoalfaghari* tarbiat modarres university of tehran   abstract the story of cat and mouse and their confrontation is a common theme in persian literature. this story has always been popular among children and it is one of the important texts of iranian traditional schools. such stories have been widely reflected in persian literatur...

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

narrative elements in mostafa rahmandoost’s poems for children   f. abdolahian*             a. razi**   guilan university   children’s literary works are created with different goals. preparation for development of individual and social aspects of children and development of mental abilities and development of their artistic talent are the objectives of children literature that producers ...