from applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in fl/sl: learning to use or using to learn? definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. that is why there was a gradu...

While the selection of idioms for beginning level CFL learning and instruction is mostly determined byindividual preferences and pedagogical considerations, we propose that idiom selection targeting intermediateand advanced level CFL learners is better guided by a data-driven approach. Based on 20-million charactercorpus of Chinese news texts, we generated a reference frequency list...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate student...

this study was an attempt to identify the interlingual strategies employed to translate english subtitles into persian and to determine their frequency, as well. contrary to many countries, subtitling is a new field in iran. the study, a corpus-based, comparative, descriptive, non-judgmental analysis of an english-persian parallel corpus, comprised english audio scripts of five movies of differ...

This paper describes LUCID, the London UCL Clear Speech in Interaction Database, which contains spontaneous and read speech in clear and casual speaking styles for 40 Southern British English speakers. The problem-solving task used to collect the spontaneous speech, the DiapixUK task, is also described, along with ways of using the task to elicit different types of clear speech without explicit...

the ultimate purpose in designing a curriculum should be to have an organized system of what is to be learned when an area of study is identified. the curriculum development should be designed in such a way that even the beginners are able to get a complete idea of the subject over a period of time on learning it. the curriculum should be as of that it should make him/her to get involved in kno...