Ali Akbar Ansarin

University of Tabriz, Department of English, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Tabriz, Iran

[ 1 ] - Complimenting Functions by Native English Speakers and Iranian EFL Learners: A Divergence or Convergence

The study of compliment speech act has been under investigation on many occasions in recent years. In this study, an attempt is made to explore appraisals performed by native English speakers and Iranian EFL learners to find out how these two groups diverge or converge from each other with regard to complimenting patterns and norms. The participants of the study were 60 advanced Iranian EFL lea...

[ 2 ] - Perceived Pragmatic Transferability of Persian L1 Refusal Strategies

Investigating transfer of one’s pragmatic knowledge of first language to his second or foreign language has been one of the areas of interest for researchers. However, there are contradictory results even within the scarce studies which have addressed transferability. This study was an attempt to investigate perceived pragmatic transferability of L1 refusal strategies by Persian EFL learners. S...

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