Vocabulary acquisition was for long considered to be the easiest aspect of foreign language acquisition for which no particular formal instruction was necessary. However, due to the emergence and development of the communicative method and Krashen’s…
This study intends to identify the learning styles and language learning strategies of three groups of Persian learners of English in order to check whether there is a relationship between students' learning styles, language learning strategies and…
Up until the 20th century, dissemination of English language by means of the colonies of England and the dominance of the United States of America resulted in the perception, acknowledgement and learning of English as the only language by millions of…
This pilot study investigates the effects of community-service learning (CSL) in the development of the intercultural communicative competence (ICC) among intermediate level Spanish learners. The ICC highlights the importance of appropriate and…
The aim of this paper is to present some aspects pertaining to the interpretation of a special kind of relative clause construction, which is distinguished from restrictive and non-restrictive (appositives) relative clauses, namely amount relatives. …
This paper investigates the way students within a Juvenile Detention Center in Brazil, experienced the learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). If a youth under 18 violates some of the Brazilian laws, the “Statute of the Child and the…
Every profession has its own vocabulary and every professional would like to use (to communicate rapidly and effectively – orally or in writing) these specialised terms in the language that he/she uses (be it his/her mother tongue or a second…
This article is a field study that tries to verify the effect of gender on the scope of Persian and English written texts. Variables such as color terms, swearing, hedges, intensifiers, tag questions, adjectives of approximation and adjectives are…
As the Council of Europe suggests foreign language teaching needs to comprise not only linguistic performance but also intercultural consciousness and intercultural skills. Despite being grammatically and lexically competent, many university students…
In our corpus extracted from LDCE (2003) I have noted some examples of the lexical plurals with s in which s is deleted in back formation or replaced in paradigmatic derivation: (1a) scissors > scissor v., barracks > barrack (soldiers) v.,…
