Introduction: Fundamental notions of mapping hypothesis and canonicity were scrutinized in Persian-speaking aphasics.  Methods: To this end, the performance of four age-, education-, and gender matched Persian-speaking Broca's patients and eight matched healthy controls in diverse complex structures were compared via the conduction of two tasks of syntactic comprehension and grammaticality jud...

This study explored the acquisition of Arabic and English relative clauses by L2 learners. It examined extent to which Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH) (Keenan Comrie 1977) Markedness Differential Hypothesis (MDH) (Eckman account for pronouns Twenty Arabic-speaking learners twenty English-speaking were selected. To this end, four different tasks used in regard, namely Sentence Combina...

The Linguistic Data Consortium and Georgetown University Press are collaborating to create updated editions of bilingual dictionaries that had originally been published in the 1960’s for English-speaking learners of Moroccan, Syrian and Iraqi Arabic. In their first editions, these dictionaries used ad hoc Latin-alphabet orthography for each colloquial Arabic dialect, but adopted some properties...

Article History The paper received on: 07/07/2014 Accepted after peer-review on: 24/08/2014 Published on: 01/09/2014 Of the four major language skills, speaking is regarded as the most crucial and central one as it enables the learner to establish successful communication in that language, which is often the main aim of learning any foreign language. That is why it forms the focus of att...

a growing body of research has indicated that students of esl/efl are reticent and unwilling to be engaged in oral activities in english lessons. communicative language ability includes speaking ability, so vocabulary knowledge plays an integral role in speaking a language. however, there have been few studies examining the degree to which vocabulary knowledge affects speaking ability. the pres...