May 2013

A cross-linguistic investigation of language apology speech act: A case of Persian and Kurdish Children

This study aims at exploring the similarities and differences among strategies used in performing speech act of apologizing in Southern Kurdish (Kermanshahi Kurdish) and Persian children. The first goal is to find out whether Kurdish and Persian apologies are formulaic in pragmatic structure as in English apologies or not. The second goal of this study is to investigate the effect of the values assigned to the two...

Author(s): Mohammad Reza Sadeghi

May 2013

Input enhancement and connected discourse: A case of EFL academic context

  This study was an attempt to explore the effect of input enhancement (through interaction and explanation) on EFL (English and Foreign Languages) university language learners’ connected discourse. Participants consisted of 54 EFL junior university language learners randomly divided into two experimental and one control group. Two input enhancement instructions, namely, input enhancement through...

Author(s): Mohammad Reza Sadeghi