among the linguistic resources for creating grammatical metaphor, nominalization rewords   processes and properties metaphorically as nouns within the experiential metafunction of language. following halliday's (1998a) classification of grammatical metaphor, the current study investigated nominalization exploited in an english applied linguistics textbook and its corresponding persian translati...

Hedges, as tools to express tentativeness and doubt, have been studied in plenty of research papers in the Iranian EFL research setting. However, their use in a learner corpus, portraying Iranian learner English, is in need of more research attention. With this end in view, this study aimed at investigating how Iranian EFL learners who have majored in English-related fields in Iran deployed hed...

Nagy (1988) states that vocabulary is a prerequisite factor in comprehension. Drawing upon a reductionist approach and having in mind the prospects for material development, this study aimed at creating an English for Academic Purposes Word List (EAPWL). The corpus of this study was compiled from a corpus containing 6479 pages of texts, 2,081,678 million tokens (running words) and 63825 types (...

Incorporating gamification into foreign language learning is a successful and effective strategy for improving learners' level of skills helping them to master communication with others. This study aimed determine the impact Kahoot, gamification-based technological application, on English vocabulary academic purposes motivation. Thus, 60 students were selected from among university enrolled in ...

Finding an answer to the effectiveness of autonomous learning in contrast traditional forms teacher-directed has significant pedagogical ramifications. Our study sheds light on effects increased autonomy SL development students and role instructor. Furthermore, we focus international student experiences order understand ramifications for their development, context internationalization.&nbsp...