This study intended to inspect the possible effects of teaching English lexical clusters on speaking accuracy of Iranian EFL intermediate learners. Also it examined the influence of gender on the effect of teaching English lexical clusters on speaking accuracy of the same learners. 41 male and female EFL intermediate learners, studying  English at intermediate level at Zabankade Institute in Te...

Abstract: Lexical bundles, as building blocks of coherent discourse, have been the subject of much research in the last two decades. While many of such studies have been mainly concerned with  exploring  variations  in  the  use  of  these  word  sequences  across  different  registers  and disciplines, very few have addressed the use of some particular groups of lexical bundles within some gen...

This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of lexicon-based debates on the felicity of lexical equivalents in translating literary texts by Iranian EFL learners.  To fulfill the purpose of this study, 59 university students, majoring in English Translation, were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups from a total of 73 students based on their performance on a mock TOE...

This study examines the phonetic properties of lexical stress in English produced by Persian speakers learning English as a foreign language. The four most reliable phonetic correlates of English lexical stress, namely fundamental frequency, duration, intensity, and vowel quality were measured across Persian speakers’ production of the stressed and unstressed syllables of five English disyllabi...

The paper analyses the means of lexical enrichment from viewpoint a theory motivation (TLM). After introductory notes, methodological background (basic principles TLM) is explained (section 2). Consequently, in section 3, hierarchy related concepts introduced, namely, three-tiered set oppositions: (1) imitation nomination - nomination, (2) intralinguistic cross- -linguistic (3) intralexemic int...

The goals of this paper are twofold. First, I provide empirical generalizations regarding paradigmatic gaps in the Russian genitive plurals. Second, I propose an analysis of these facts in terms of inviolable lexical conservatism conditions. The main idea behind Lexical Conservatism is that speakers are hesitant introducing forms that would create a new allomorph of an existent morpheme. I reje...