EFL learners. Moreover, the influence of gender on the

preference of persuasive strategies by respondents was

discussed. Results demonstrated some differences and

similarities inutilization of this speech act by male and...

This study investigates the strategies Iranian English learners employ for expressing gratitude in different

situations. To this end, 180 students from the English language institutes and universities in Mashhad ...

This study is an investigation into the speech act of suggestion utilized by Iranian learners of English. To this end, 150 Persian natives and 150 Iranian English learners were asked to complete a Discourse Completion Task of six situations...

at comparing the use of speech act of gratitude in Persian and Chinese EFL learners and English native speakers performances to identify the existing pattern among them. For this purpose, the participants were asked to complete a Discourse Completion Task (DCT...

This study seeks to scrutinize how Iranian EFL teachers correct learners; in other words, the speech act of correction they employ when providing feedback on learners’ errors is examined in this study. Due to the fact that teachers are different...

The study of speech acts, which investigates an utterance as a functional unit in communication, began to influence greatly the teaching of language use. Numerous studies have been conducted on different kinds of speech acts in previous years...

This study intends to conduct a contrastive analysis between English and Persian with regard to suggestion speech act. To this end, some Iranian university students were asked to complete a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) consisting of six...

The present study aimed to recast the issue of production of speech act of persuasion in

English and Persian languages. This study first attempts to analyze the types of persuasive

strategies used in English and Persian. To this end...

This article reports on the self-correction of Iranian EFL learners, their preferences regarding corrective feedback and the speech act through which they correct their own mistakes. The participants were 160 EFL learners from different language...