Social and Linguistic Factors as Predictors of Contact-Induced Change

Language contact and language change – linguistic and social issues

learning style, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension

this thesis attempts to measure learning styles, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension. in order to address this issue, a quantitative study was conducted on some randomly selected intact students at ferdowsi university. these two groups were assigned as they were undergraduate (ba=91) and graduate (ma =74) students; they were all aged betwe...

Self efficacy, social acceptance and locus of control as predictors of social interest among Iranian students

Social interest is human phenomenon which can be considered as structure of personality in psychology. This descriptive correlation study aimed to investigate self efficacy, social acceptance and locus of control as predictors of social interest. This was correlational study. The sample consisted of 153 boys and 147 girls who were studying at private middle schools. Multistage cluster sampling ...

Contact-induced typological change

1. Introduction. It is easy to show that contact-induced change can have a profound effect on the typological profile of the receiving language. Probably the most obvious examples , and also the ones that are easiest to find, are changes in basic sentential word order. These are especially striking because it is word order features that have attracted the most attention in the typological liter...

Some Scientific Factors of Linguistic Change

One of our Yice-Chancdlol':, r(?(:ently said that the first ))l'ourJ duty of a ',mivel'sity is to be the tru,t0(~ of the intellectual and cultural hel'itage of maEkind and to strive 1'01' cultural continuity in a world of rapid change. It falls to linguists to consider the most important means by which our human heritage is shared and communicated-speech. In any study of man as a social being, ...