The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between students‘ explicit knowledge in grammar and their translation ability. The importance of grammatical knowledge and its effectiveness in translation quality motivated the researcher to run this study and consider grammatical knowledge in Per- sian as the source language of Iranian students. It is clear that grammar is an area ...

a community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. this study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. to this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...

Western languages notoriously lack specific, abstract vocabulary to describe sensory perception. Despite the paucity of specific lexical items, descriptions characteristics food abound in English. One most common strategies is source-based language (e.g., creamy), which allows speakers evaluate and communicate a current experience with respect prototypical source sensation. The aim this paper r...