Abstract The present study explores the impact of corpus-based collocation instruction on intermediate Iranian EFL learners' writing ability. For this study, 84 Iranian learners, studying English as a foreign language in Bayan Institute, Iran, were selected and were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Conventional methods of writing instruction were taught to the control...

Though political discourse is in the mainstream of modern studies, scholars haven’t so far paid much attention to compiling discourse-oriented dictionaries. The need further develop lexicographic theory and practice for specific purposes advance new methods dictionary making a challenge that linguists are facing today. aim case study twofold: work out principles an Explanatory Combinatorial Dic...

indubitably, the efficacy of metalinguistic awareness in improving efl learners’ grammatical knowledge and writing quality has long been an area of great interest in applied linguistics brown (2001). accordingly, the main objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of planned and unplanned focus on form instruction on students’ ability to learn grammar and use it appropriately ...

This study investigated the effectiveness of colligational corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The objective of the study was to find out whether or not providing students with corpora through using colligational instruction had any significant effects on enhancing their pragmalinguistic knowledge...

Like the design of any instruction, designing the Web as an instructional tool must include certain Moreover, online learning must provide a framework for producing a Incorporating interactivity and multimedia into web-based instruction. Web-based instruction provides teachers with a means of meeting the social needs of A framework for designing interactivity into Web-based instruction. *Techno...

The paper analyses the conceptual mechanisms underlying development of secondary emotional meanings ?non-emotional? verbs (in relation to their primary meaning). Being abstract, psychological entities, emotions are formalised and expressed by linguistic means using lexis. Emotional represent a type this lexis: they denote emotions, relationships processes, expression an situation as whole. rese...

-It has been known that loops constitute the most executed segments of programs and therefore are the best candidates for hardware implementation. We present a set of profiling tools that are specifically dedicated to loop profiling and do support combined function and loop profiling. One tool relies on an instruction set simulator and can therefore be augmented with architecture and micro-arch...