This empirical study seeks to investigate Iranian English learners' attitudes toward different varieties of English in relation to the perspective of the theory of "World Englishes". Making use of a modification of matched guise technique, 165...

This study seeks to analyze English language teaching and learning in the informal context of education in Iran from the perspective of the theory of -World Englishes-. The qualitative data consisted of a total of 182-minute recording of 25 subjects...

analyzed linguistically and cognitively by employing the microstructural approach of schema theory. The analysis showed that the scale deals basically not with foreign but English language and was, therefore, renamed as English Language Identity Scale (ELIS...

Given that willingness to communicate -WTC- as an important individual difference -ID- variable playsa pivotal role in the second language acquisition -SLA- domain and the fact that an array of factorsmay affect it in English as a foreign language...

The concept of politeness is understood differently by the speakers of various languages. Among other things, the strategies that English and Persian speakers adopt in writing the official letters are considered to display significant distinctions...

to such ideological indications in source texts. Nevertheless, the training system in Iranian universities does not seem to explicitly address this necessity during educating English and Persian translators. The present research investigated where in a socio...

The Study of the Relationship Between Linguistic Intelligence and English Langage Learning in anefl Context...