This study investigated the effects of planned focus-on-form instruction (pFFI) on developing oral grammatical accuracy in Iranian English EFL learners. To this end, 60 lower-intermediate EFL learners studying English in a private English language institute in Tehran, Iran, were randomly assigned to two classes. Both classes received a task-based instruction on grammatical points elicited in or...

introduction: in scientific meetings, researchers present their research findings of their dissertations and the scientific identity of the universities deperd on the quality of these scientific documents. the more the principles of writing are observed in these dissertations, the more easily and fluently the writer ¨smessage is transferred to the readers. methods: this is a dexriptive study in...

arabic languages is not a foreign language for us as iranins is the language of our religion and islamic culture. thus to protect our religion and culture. we should learn it. because arabic is not our native language. so one way to learn it is through the comparison and contrast of structure and grammatical points of arabic and persian. this issue is very helpful in translating a text. this ar...

This study was an attempt to examine the effect of using comic strips on improving grammar recognition and performance among Iranian young EFL learners. To this end, one experimental and one control groups were formed, each having 45 preintermediate participants chosen via convenience sampling. The researcher-made pretests of grammar and speaking assured the researchers that the participants di...

Signed languages display a variety of pointing signs that serve the functions of deictic and anaphoric pronouns, possessive and reflexive pronouns, demonstratives, locatives, determiners, body part labels, and verb agreement. We consider criteria for determining the linguistic status of pointing signs. Among those criteria are conventionality, indexicality, phonological compositionality, being ...

BACKGROUND Specific language impairment (SLI) is a disorder in which language acquisition is impaired in an otherwise normally developing child. SLI affects around 7% of children. The existence of a purely grammatical form of SLI has become extremely controversial because it points to the existence and innateness of a putative grammatical subsystem in the brain. Some researchers dispute the exi...

Practical machine translation must be considered from a heuristic point of view rather than from a purely rigid analytical l inguistic method. An English-into-Japanese translation system named ATHENE based on a Heuristic Parsing Model (HPM) has been developed. The experiment shows some advantageous points such as simplification of transforming and generating phase, semilocalization of multiple ...