The English article system poses difficulties for language learners, particularly those whose mother tongues or L1 do not possess the as in language. This mixed-method study aimed to measure if Pakistani M.Phil. students used correctly. Moreover, this also explored participants’ perspectives about factors which caused problems them using articles To achieve these objectives, present research ad...

the present paper focused on the sociocultural explanations of rhetorical differences between english and persian and was based on the contrastive genre analysis of applied linguistics research article abstracts in these two languages. the evolutionary nature of research article abstracts was also investigated from 1985 to 2005, in three stages, with a time interval of 10 years. seventy eight r...

The English article system presents many problems for non-native speakers of English, particularly when they do not have an equivalent structure in their first language. Different approaches to the teaching of articles have attempted to overcome this problem. By encouraging students to address the notion of countability and to identify specific uses of articles in English, the ESL teacher in th...