The onset of literacy marks a significant change in children’s development. Written language is more complex than everyday conversation, and even books targeted at preschoolers contain varied words syntax child-directed speech does. We review the nature content book language, focusing on recent large-scale corpus analyses that systematically compared written spoken language. argue exposure to p...

language and meaning are among the most important subjects which scholars have discussed since the earliest times and sometimes they have presented contradictory viewpoints about it. undoubtedly, language and meanings have a life for themselves; some of them extinguish in their lifespan and others will survive. some others undergo transformation and present themselves in new shapes. similar to ...

The present study aimed at exploring Iranian EFL teachers’ perception of professional development. To this end, 200 EFL teachers teaching at private language institutes in Iran were selected as the participants of the study. First, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 50 participants of the study based on which Professional Development Perception Questionnaire was developed an...

this study was framed on the theory of language socialisation and a systematic functional linguistic (sfl) approach. the aim of the study was to analyse the oral presentation discourse produced by an elemen- tary iranian english as second language (esl) postgraduate student in an american university four times (september/december, 2015 and march/september, 2016) over one year. the data were col...