narrative style is the main feature of mehdi akhavan sales (1928-1990), one of the famous contemporary persian poets. but what gives a special prominence to his narrative poems and makes it distinct from the works of other contemporary poets is his idiosyncratic use of narrative techniques and methods. he employed in his works the element of narration in a distinctive manner. although, the narr...

For the first time, this study combined models and principles of authentic assessment from two parallel fields of applied linguistics as well as general education to investigate the authenticity of the TOEFL iBT speaking module. The study consisted of two major parts, namely task analysis and task survey. Utilizing Bachman and Palmer’s (1996) definition of authenticity, the task analysis examin...

A task-independent ller modeling for robust keyphrase detection and veri cation is proposed. Instead of assuming task-speci c lexical knowledge, our model is designed to characterize phrases depending on the speaking-style, thus can be trained with large corpora of di erent but similar tasks. We present two implementations of the portable and general model. The dialogue-style dependent model tr...

This study examines the narrative approach of Shahnameh by Ferdowsi based on Bakhtin’s dialogism. The logic of dialogue, a narrative that describes the relationship between different views through dialogue and interaction and considers dialogue as the only way of communication. Dialogism is supplemented by concepts such as "polyphony", "the other voice" and "Carni...

III   This study was an attempt to determine the effect of task-based approach vs. traditional approach on the narrative and expository writing of the Iranian EFL learners. There were two control groups as well as two experimental ones in the current study. In the two control groups namely G1 and G2 narrative and expository writing were taught respectively using the traditiona...

Abstract The current study examined the extent to which cognitive fluency (CF) contributes utterance (UF) at level of constructs. A total 128 Japanese-speaking learners English completed four speaking tasks—argumentative task, picture narrative reading-to-speaking and reading-while-listening-to-speaking task—and a battery linguistic knowledge tests, capturing vocabulary size, lexical retrieval ...