The present study aims at examining the extent to which three discourse genres of descriptive,

expository, and narrative would be flow inducing. In other words, it attempts to testify the role

of the text in promoting optimal...

this study aims at explaining informal internet-based chat format with respect to its genre and writing components and system. the researchers analyzed 53 chat samples which were produced by 53 Iranian students in high intermediate and advanced...

The present study attempts to examine optimal experience of test takers in Expository and Argumentative Genres of TOEFL texts. Flow theory was originally used by Csikszentmihalyi in 1970 to represent “optimal experience” that is characterized...

; the genre analysis phase aimed at identifying the macro- and micro-structure of PILs; the microstructure analysis was done at two levels of move and step. In this phase, 30 English PILs were analyzed. The second phase tried to explore reading strategies used...

Conformity to the epistemological orientations of academic disciplines is often reflected in the ways in which knowledge is constructed and communicated through certain linguistic features in academic genres. This paper explores instances...

instruction in search of empirical support for such a claim. To this end, this study set out to investigate the impact of two genres of narration and exposition on subjects’ reading skills, NI, and moral reasoning. Data were collected from a sample of 91...

this image in one memoir-novel written by an Iranian woman, Azam Hosseini’s Da (2008), recounting her female narrator’s story of war. Categorized under the Sacred Defense genre in Persian literature, the narrative simultaneously manifests contradictory...

This paper describes an analysis of research article abstracts written by Iranian and native English-speaking scholars of the field of Biological Science. The analysis is mainly focused on the genre structure (moves, steps) employed by the two...