second language  learners often develop grammatical competence in the absence of concomitant pragmatic competence (kasper & roever, 2005) and the exact nature of the relationship between the two competences is still indistinct and in need of inquiries ( bardovi-harlig, 1999; khatib & ahmadisafa, 2011). this study is a partial attempt to address the lacuna and aims to see if any relation...

The understanding and use of historical concepts specified in national history standards pose many challenges to students. These challenges include both the acquisition of content knowledge and the use of that knowledge in ways that require higher order thinking. All students, including adolescents with learning disabilities (LD), are expected to understand and use concepts of history to pass h...

research on l2 learners’ success at development and appropriate use of pragmatic ability and knowledge has mostly approached the issue from a cognitive or social perspective, and less attention has been devoted to the problem from the equally important emotional or individual-psychological lenses. this study sought to explore, first, the interplay between iranian advanced efl learners’ pragmati...

In this article, I enquire into the ways that journalists understand their identities and values now social media dominate routines of networked newsrooms. My approach is grounded on a Discourse Theory framework within which journalism emerges as symbolic practice constituted through discourse its practitioners. Drawing additionally pragmatic sociology, reflexive practitioners who discursively ...

This report describes a set of matrix vector routines Level BLAS and matrix matrix routines Level BLAS written in C These routines have been included in Mark of the NAG C Library and are used by other library routines in that library Details are given of the implementation testing and use of the routines and a complete listing of all the ANSI C function prototypes is included in the Appendix Th...