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Download full textMaghsoudi, Mojtaba; Mirzaeian, Vahid – JALT CALL Journal, 2020
EFL university students in general and Iranian EFL university learners in particular, specifically in the commencement of their study at bachelor degree prefer to have their assigned English texts translated into mother tongue since they do not have a good command of the language. Machine translation (MT) has recently turned into a favorite tool…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Language Processing, Comparative Analysis
Shabani, Mansour; Zeinali, Maryam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The significance of pragmatic knowledge and politeness strategies has recently been emphasized in language learning and teaching. Most communication failures originate in the lack of pragmatic awareness which is evident among EFL learners while communicating with English native speakers. The present study aimed at investigating compliment response…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Indo European Languages, Native Speakers, Gender Differences
Babaie, Sherveh; Shahrokhi, Mohsen – English Language Teaching, 2015
The purpose of the present study was to compare the speech act of offering advice as realized by Iranian EFL learners and English native speakers. The study, more specifically, attempted to find out whether there was any pragmatic transfer from Persian (L1) among Iranian EFL learners while offering advice in English. It also examined whether…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
Mashak, Shahrzad Pirzad; Pazhakh, Abdolreza; Hayati, Abdolmajid – International Education Studies, 2012
Metaphor becomes the subject of interest for many researchers in recent decades. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the universality of emotion metaphorical conceptualization and the dominant pattern in English and Persian based on Kovecses's (2003) model for Linguistic expression of Metaphor. The emotions under study were…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, English, Figurative Language, Comparative Analysis
Mofidi, Marzieh; Shoushtari, Zohreh Gooniband – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the pragmatic transfer Iranian EFL and ESL learners of English showed when complaining in English. The study aimed to find out if there exists any relationship between the amount of contact with English and pragmatic competence of both EFL and ESL groups as well as the relationship between the duration…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Speech Acts
