objective: lack of scientific writing skills is one major problem encountered for publication of research results of iranian scientists in accredited journals. as the result, many research projects or dissertation findings remain unpublished. this study aimed to assess the quality of writing of the “results” section of some original articles published in iranian farsi and international english ...

Since learning English as a foreign language in Iran has turned into one of the mostimportant issues in educational settings, especially in recent years, having motivated teachersin education and maintaining this motivation is one of the defining factors in assuring students’learning. Teachers' motivation affects the process of teaching and EFL learners’ achievement.The present study was an att...

This study examined the substantive and predictive validity facets of the University Entrance Examination for English Major (UEEEM) students. To that aim, 111 English major students were recruited to report their scores on each of the subtests of the test as well as their grade point average. Sequential multiple regressions and factor analysis were used in the analysis of the data. Results ackn...

The monopoly of Western ideologies, theories and methods through English language education as well as the marginalization of Islamic values in English language learning materials has caused heated debates and controversies among Muslim TEFL scholars. In a descriptive and interpretive analysis, this study attempts to bring light to some theoretical issues pertained to language education and Isl...

Demotivation is a relatively new topic in the field of second or foreign language acquisition which is in need of more rigorous research. In this regard, the present study was an attempt to investigate demotivating factors in learning English as a foreign language in an Iranian context. To this end, 382 Persian learners of English were selected through stratified clustering sampling procedure t...

this sentence is what a prominent english judge has said about the power of judges in dealing with cases in english law. an example of this power can be found in contractual terms for damages called penalties and liquidated damages. as it is expected, contracts are basically made to be performed and not to be avoided according to the whims of market fluctuation. however, the adherence to freedo...

Abstract Ten years before the European Parliament adopted Gender-neutral language in multilingual guidelines (2008), Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation had already included a section on this subject third edition of its English Style Guide (1998). The original text was later reproduced other Union’s style guides, namely Interinstitutional , Commission and ephemeral Guidelines Incl...

This study investigated how Cantonese lexical tone sensitivity contributed to English lexical stress sensitivity among Cantonese children who learned English as a second language (ESL). Five-hundred-and-sixteen second-to-third grade Cantonese ESL children were tested on their Cantonese lexical tone sensitivity, English lexical stress sensitivity, general auditory sensitivity, and working memory...