Fakhri Mesri & Fereshteh Deyhim, Department of Humanities, Payam-e-Noor University, Tehran, I.R of IRAN. The purpose of this present study aims to investigate the relationship between gender, proficiency level and Iranian EFL learners performance on pre-listening activities. 90 Iranian EFL learners participated in the present study. They received three different types of listening support which were (question preview, repeated listening, and pre-teaching vocabulary). Language proficiency test was administrated to divide them in to high and low level groups. Also there were three...

Contrasting of Addressing Forms in Persian & Turkish in Iran. Fakhri Mesri: Payam-e-Noor University, Po Box 19395-3697, Tehran, I.R of IRAN. All human languages have addressing forms. Addressing forms are considered as an interesting phenomenon in the study on the across cultural communication because of including numerous addressing systems in different cultures and languages . This study focuses on the social- pragmatics aspects of form of address and terms of reference in Turkish and Persian in Iranian context. The aim of the study is to explore the choice of such terms in different...