Objectives: Profound hearing loss encounters children with delay in speech and language. As it is known language acquisition in young deaf children is a lengthy process, but cochlear implanted children have better spoken language skills than if they had not received the device. According to the importance of cochlear implant in deaf childchr('39')s language development, this study evaluates the...

It was a hot humid morning as always in the small village of Amokwasuaso in Ghana’s western region. We sat in the small, dilapidated community meeting hall awaiting the arrival of a World Bank fact-finding mission. The Amokwasuaso community has achieved some celebrity in Ghana as the first community to have the rights to manage wildlife devolved to its residents by the State. The fact-finding m...

many among us. practitioners as well as theoreticians, deep down share the feeling that though oc.jds against us are many. the devil itself that causes most of our iailure in leaching english to the speakers of other languages is none hut the insufficient exposure of our students to real language use. those of us with efl experience arc deeply sympathetic with this verdict amt find it quite jus...

understanding of the language of the qur'an is needed for     recognition of the names and attributes of allah. language         of the quran is not equal with the language of religion which             has originated from christianity world. language of the            qur'an and imams speeches do not have one aspect, so that it            can be understood perfectly via lexical princ...

the present study attempts to investigate parsing preferences (early vs. late closure) of native and l2 learners of both english and persian when they read ambiguous relative clauses. the purpose is to find out if l2 learners process l2 linguistic input in the way monolingual speakers of that language do. the participants took tests including 10 test sentences plus 10 distractors, each followed...