The current study was carried out to investigate the functions of the ritual speech act of ‘ya Allah’ (literally meaning ‘O God’) as it is employed by Iranians in social interactions. To this end, a number of Persian native ...

The major aim of this study was to explore how Iranian EFL learners correct their teachers when they make mistakes in class. A sample of 180 English learners from different language institutes took part in this research ...

Abstract: The major objective of this study was to examine how Iranian English language learners correct their peers. English learners from different private language institutes in Iran took part in this research, they ...

This study takes as primary the analysis of the use of the Quranic verse ‘insha’allah’ in Persian language to come up with the functions it serves in the context of Iran. Based on the findings of the research, there are ...

با توجه به اهمیت نقش زبان در شکل دهی و تغییر باورهای مذهبی و فرهنگی مردم جامعه، پژوهش حاضر در صدد است تا به بررسی موشکافانه واژه ارزشی حاجی و واژه های وابسته به آن بپردازد. بدین منظور حدود 300 بافتی که در آن ها گفتمان مرتبط ...

This research sought to investigate Iranian EFL teachers’ reaction to their colleagues’ mistakes and the probable factors influencing their response. Moreover, it was momentous to the researchers to figure out whether ...

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 ...

This study seeks to investigate writers’ stance-taking in discussion section of EFL articles written by Persian, English, and EFL speakers. To achieve this purpose, three corpora were selected comprising 90 EFL articles ...

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 ...

The theory which has been put forward by the authors of this study seeks to shed light on the current situation of language learning in public and private language schools in Iran. Based on the socio-imposed theory of ...