Expansion of the borders of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) provides members of academic communities with a challenging opportunity to participate in various exchange programmes. The phenomenon of mobility tests the proficiency level of…
As discussed by Newmeyer (1998), the debate between “formal” and “functional” approaches to explanation in linguistics has a long pedigree, and in some respects the two perspectives may seem almost irreconcilable. Here I suggest that, taking…
Although many studies have been conducted on second language acquisition and bilingual education, there is a lack of research-based information on developing foreign language identity, especially regarding the frequency of language use and its…
The assessment of learners’ competence provides objective evidence necessary in the decision-making process in education.This is a key factor to decide the development and understanding of the students' learning. In most higher education…
The construction of meaning in humor research falls within the cognitive group of operations present in everyday human life and occurring at a lightning speed invisible to the conscious human mind. The topic of this paper is, hereby,…
Gender exerts a powerful influence on all facets of human communication and raises many profound social issues. General usage of the term gender began in the late 1960s and 1970s, increasingly appearing in the professional literature of the social…
Public speakers have always had a sense of authority and power upon them, and this area was male area for a long time. Together with different social changes such as Women’s Movement, women became more emancipated, participating in public sphere to a…
This study uses the genre analysis methodology to investigate the discourse patterns and features of a Turkish tourism brochure and apply the genre analysis to it within the frame of Bhatia’s (2004) movestructural model. The data used for this study…
This study explores the differential effect of giving and receiving WCF on prompting writing of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 61 learners of English were randomly assigned to a WCF Giver group (n - 19), a WCF Receiver group (n = 22), and a…
Since the 90s made in Italy was a stron brand all over the world. Driving Ferrari, wearing Gucci, Armani, dressing up with Damiani's jewelry, putting on Paciotti's shoes, eating parmigiano and Barilla's pasta were a status symbol not only in Italy,…
