language acquisition is a varied field, and there is an ocean of approaches from which one can investigate first/second language acquisition. these approaches root in different fields, basically linguistics. as for linguistics, research in language acquisition ranges from structural and generative-transformational to cognitive linguistics. while in contrast with each other in main respects theo...

the major purpose of the present this study is to reviews the classifications of approaches to religious education, and introducing an alternative classification of religious educator theory. to this end, approaches to islamic education which have been categorized typologically and are associated with the cognitive context of iranian intellectuals have been studied. in line with this goal, the ...

Most schools of linguistics have their foundations in a study of the syntax and semantics of individual sentences. Cognitive linguistics is to some extent no exception: while it has always devoted considerable attention to the conceptual aspects of linguistic meaning and to the study of language in use, the focus of research has still traditionally been on single sentences or propositions rathe...

Contact Linguistics, throughout its history, has been mostly a data-oriented subdiscipline. From the gathering of word lists in colonial settings by pioneer scholars to the current compilation of narratives, interviews and databanks, Contact Linguistics, differently from other Linguistics subdisciplines, has strived to base its findings on the analysis of actual language produced by speakers of...

Research on teacher cognition concerning listening instruction has not been sufficiently touched upon. The present case study aimed to investigate Iranian EFL teachers' stated practices, their perceptions of how effective those practices are, and their actual classroom practices of two casual process-oriented listening instructional approaches namely, strategy-based instruction (SBI) and metaco...