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Abbasi, Atefeh; Koosha, Mansour – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The present study aimed to investigate the frequency of the use of two semantic adjustment strategies; namely, expansion and reduction, in the two English translations of book one of "Masnavi." For this purpose, 300 lines of "Masnavi" by Rumi (2014) along its two corresponding English translations by Nicholson (2004) and…
Descriptors: Translation, English, Semantics, Poetry
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Tahmasebi, Soheila; Yamini, Morteza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2011
In Sociocultural Theory, mediations in second language learning include (1) mediation by others (2) mediation by self (3) and mediation by artifacts, which incorporates brilliant insights for EFL contexts (Lantolf, 2000). Putting these ideas in a task-based method, the present study aimed at examining the contribution of scaffolding and private…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Reading Comprehension, Video Technology