This study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by Iranian nonnative speakers (NNSs) of English and Canadian native speakers (NSs) of English to find out the (possible) similarities and/or differences between the request realizations, and to investigate the influence of the situational variables of power, distance, context familiarity, and L1’s (possible) influence. ...

Abstract This paper empirically tests the embedding constraints on gapping in Persian. It has been suggested that differs from other kinds of ellipsis banning embedding. However, first counter-examples literature come Following up previous experiments embedded several languages, we report results two acceptability judgment tasks. Our show that, while is overall acceptable Persian, speakers’ jud...

Abstract Drawing on a growing body of research the interface between corpus linguistics and second/foreign language testing assessment, we adopted Peykare , large-scale, annotated, Persian written resource to evaluate content (i.e., coverage typicality) construct validity proficiency test developed for certification in as foreign (PFL) non-native speakers. Designed at Research Center Intelligen...

This research paper explores the use of structural metaphors in daily conversations Persian speakers and examines how these reveal deeper human experiences. In this kind metaphor, a notion from one area is frequently utilized to create another (debate controversy, which subjective idea but has cultural element), such as war physical or phenomena. speech known for using imagery symbols, animal a...

Many studies have explored the second language (L2) acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) and whether L2 speakers transfer a resumptive strategy from first (L1) to L2. While evidence seems suggest that there are significant L1–L2 differences in processing RCs, relatively little is known about source non-target-like behaviour. The present study investigates grammatical acceptability different RC...

tsimpli and dimitrakopoulou (2007) observed that uninterpretable features are unavailable in second language (l2) acquisition after the critical period. in this paper, we verify this claim by providing evidence from persian speaking learners of english as an l2 on the status of resumptive pronouns (rps) as uniterpretable features. unlike english which does not allow rps, persian shows various b...

different studies in writing skill of second language learners show that they are weak in this skill. they know some vocabularies and grammatical rules but are unable to write a different kinds of texts. the study of contrastive rhetorics can help learners and teachers in this area. moreover, discourse markers that indicate rhetoric styles and principles have an important role in writing skill....