Research has indicated that writing argumentative essay is difficult for L2 students of English, as such the current project intended to examine the difficulties which Iranian EFL students have in writing argumentative essays and also to investigate similarities and/or differences in the way they structure their English and Persian argumentative essay before and after instruction. This study also attempted to portray how students transfer rhetorical patterns in L2 to L1 compositions. This study shed further light into the impact of explicit and implicit genre-based approach in comparison with...
Research has indicated that writing argumentative essay is difficult for L2 students of English, as such the current project intended to examine the d...
As a main component in newspaper discourses, news headlines have increasingly attracted the interests of linguists. However, lexical and syntactic studies of news headlines have been comparatively little studied. Considering the absence of contrasting English and Persian newspaper headlines, the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between the headlines of the two languages in order to find the main similarities and differences between them. The analysis was based on a one-week corpus of the headlines of the two languages and looked into the following aspects: 1....
As a main component in newspaper discourses, news headlines have increasingly attracted the interests of linguists. However, lexical and syntactic stu...