although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...

august wilson is undoubtedly one of the rare black playwrights whose works have attracted streams of attention and worldwide audience. the present study aims at analyzing fences and piano lesson which are two of the most successful plays in his pittsburgh cycle from the perspective of michel foucault’s theories and ideas. studying these two plays from foucault’s perspective opens new windows in...

according to coates’s (2004, as cited in zhang, 2010) definition of "conversational dominance" (p.111), it refers to the phenomenon of a speaker dominating others in interaction. specifically, it means how a speaker makes use of certain strategies to get the floor and maintain the floor. thus, the amount of talk is the main measurement for the dominance of the conversation. whether a speaker do...

Abstract After revolution and changing the rules, Blood Money Rules are cited by courts for Penal proceedings or batteries compensation resulted from quasi-intentional crimes. In these rules, importance of batteries medical expert that is done by forensic medicine specialists has doubled up than the past. Many changes happened especially about blood money rules principals by approving new rule ...

Although clause 8 of article 1 of the Securities Market Act has been explained Over the Counter market and defined it to ”an electronic or non-electronic market which implements securities transactions on the basis of negotiations”, according to some changes in the rules and regulations of this section, including approval of Iranian Securities Market Act, The law for Development of New Financia...