one of the main objectives of teaching persian to non-native language learners is helping them to communicate with persian speakers in a variety of personal and professional situations in their daily life. to investigate the issues of verbal communication, we are obliged to pay attention to the different language functions. to do this, the present research aims to study the amount of attention ...

this study had two main steps. the first one was introducing and examining the long’s model of needs analysis (na) for distinguishing the general language needs. by doing the first step, we tried to recognize the shortages of long’s model, in the second step to realize the general language needs of persian language learners and find out what language functions are needed to be learned for gener...

is the language of religion the same as the common language? various doctrines have been presented. meanwhile، wittgenstein offered two different doctrines in two different time periods. during the first period، he accepts the theory of common and visual language. but during the second period، he criticized his previous doctrine and offered the doctrine of “language games”، which means language...

learning language functions and the way they are implemented are the most significant objectives in foreign/second language teaching. since few studies have been conducted to identify and recognize the persian language functions and notions, the present study aims to identify the unmarked language forms, which are used in various situations of the five most common persian language functions, an...

the present study is an attempt to investigate the use of vague expressions by intermediate efl learners. more specifically, the current study focuses on the structures and functions of one of the most common categories of vague language, i.e. general extenders. the data include a 22-hour corpus of english-as-a-foreign-language conversations. a comparison is also made between this corpus and a ...

language must be studied as a social behavior and the aim of language instruction must be to facilitate learners’ acquisition of communicative competence; the ability to speak both accurately and appropriately. rules of speaking must be included into second language classroom teaching. we should teach linguistic rules along with social rules. in this study a number of social functions in persia...