this article generates the first persian academic word list (pawl) which comprises the most frequently used academic vocabulary in persian academic texts. the pawl was compiled from a corpus of 927,008 running words from academic resources. two principles of range and frequency of word families guided the selection and arrangement of the word list. the corpus included seven books and one hundre...

Scholarly document creation continues to face various obstacles. Scholarly text production requires more complex word processors than other forms of texts because of the complex structures of citations, formulas and figures. The perceived need for peer review, often single-blind or double-blind, creates needs for document management that other texts do not require. Additionally, the need for co...

Diction conveys a wide array of meanings of which formality and emotionality are only two facets. Researchers have investigated various features of written discourse to capture discourse variation in L1 and L2 writings. Likewise, the present ex-post-facto study compared the formality and emotionality of diction in general and emotional English and Farsi texts produced by 20 MA students at Islam...

The CELT project aims to produce an online database of contemporary and historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts. It provides material for the greatest possible range of readers, researchers, academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public. The texts can be searched, read on-screen, downloaded for later use, or printed out. The article outlines th...

This approach deals with developing logical/creative/critical thinking and problem-solving skills by means of clearly explaining grammar rules and by providing patterns and examples for organising effective dialogues or presentations in the foreign language, leading students towards free, meaningful communication. Enriching engineering students’ English vocabulary firstly focuses on the special...

In this article, we show how the academic prototype LELIE, an intelligent authoring tool for technical texts, developed at IRIT, has been transferred to an industrial context. We first show how it has been customized to the norms and general practices of requirement authoring. We then show how LELIE for Requirements is adapted to the local context of specific companies, in terms of linguistic r...