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Thematic development refers to the way theme and rheme in the clause are developed. The theory of rhetorical structure can be defined as the strategies that follow specific ways to make writing more persuasive. The present study aimed to examine how Iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the patterns of thematic progression in various rhetorical sections in an online Iraqi newspaper, Azzaman (Zaman). To carry out the study, the news articles were collected from January 2013 to June 2013. Actually, 2 opinion articles which focused on the most important political issues were taken each month, collected and analyzed. The analysis focused on the thematic progression and rhetorical structures. The results revealed that thematic progression patterns were used in every rhetorical section of the newspaper. The findings of the study showed the occurrence of thematic progression with different rhetorical patterns in writing English opinion articles and the influence of culture on the rhetorical structure.

Translation of literary texts, especially poetry, is one of the most difficult tasks; it requires mastery and knowledge of the language system and culture, and lack of this might lead to wrong translation. This study aimed to examine the loss and gain of the sociocultural implicit meanings in the English translations of the Mu’allaqat, and assess whether the translators of the Mu’allaqat have succeeded or failed in transferring the sociocultural implicit meanings from the source text (ST) to the target text (TT). The study examined four English translations of two poems; namely, Labid’s poem and Tarafa’s poem. The selected poems are considered as masterpieces of the Arabic ancient poetry loaded with cultural signs. This study combined New mark's approach (1988) of translation with Baker’s taxonomy (1992-2011), i.e. translation equivalence, in analysing the data. The findings of the study showed that there are two types of loss made by translators in translating the Mu’allaqat: inevitable loss and avertable loss. The findings also revealed that the loss of socio-cultural implicit meaning occurred because of the inadequate use of the communicative equivalence by the translators and absence of employing pragmatic equivalence.

امروزه٬ هم راستا با گرایش های آموزش زبان که به دنبال نهادینه کردن فعالیت های آموزشی و آزمون سازی دانشجو محور هستند٬ پذیرش بیشتری در مورد تفاوت های فردی و هوش های چندگانه دانشجویان وجود دارد. همچنین٬ اتکا به نفس یکی از عوامل تعیین کننده موفقیت افراد تقریبا در هر بافتی می باشد. با فرض اینکه نمایه های هوش های چندگانه در تعامل با اتکا به نفس معلم ها به صورت مشترک ممکن است میزان بهره وری و کارآیی آموزشی معلمان را شکل دهند٬ این مطالعه به بررسی رابطه بین هوش های چندگانه دانشجو-معلم های زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجی و اتکا به نفس آنها پرداخته است. در این راستا، سی و پنج دانشجو-معلم زن و مرد زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجی در موسسات خصوصی زبان ارومیه پرسشنامه های هوش های چندگانه مک کنزی (1999) و مقیاس اتکا به نفس معلمان (چانن-موران و ولفلک-هوی٬ 2001) را تکمیل کردند. در مجموع رابطه قوی مثبتی بین هوش های چندگانه و اتکا به نفس دانشجو-معلمان زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارج حاصل شد. مقدار مجذور آر (R Square)در تحلیل رگراسیون نشان داد هوش های چندگانه اتکا به نفس معلمان را تعیین می کند و هوش درون-فردی در تعیین اتکا به نفس این معلمان نقش محوری دارد. بعلاوه بر اساس نتایج این پژوهش، بیشترین و محبوب ترین توانایی٬ هوش های درون-فردی و وجودی بودند. در مورد زیرمجموعه های اتکا به نفس٬ دانشجو-معلمان نشان دادند که در مقوله های مشارکت دانشجو و راهبردهای آموزشی اتکا به نفس بیشتری دارند. بر اساس این مطالعه پیشنهاد می شود که برنامه های آموزشی هوش های چندگانه برای معلمان تهیه و تدوین گردد و از این اصول در جهت تقویت و ارتقای کیفیت ارائه مواد درسی توسط معلمان بهره گرفته شود.

The study of compliment speech act has been under investigation on many occasions in recent years. In this study, an attempt is made to explore appraisals performed by native English speakers and Iranian EFL learners to find out how these two groups diverge or converge from each other with regard to complimenting patterns and norms. The participants of the study were 60 advanced Iranian EFL learners who were speaking Persian as their first language and 60 native English speakers. Through a written Discourse Completion Task comprised of eight different scenarios, compliments were analyzed with regard to topics (performance, personality, possession, and skill), functions (explicit, implicit, and opt-out), gender differences and the common positive adjectives used by two groups of native and nonnative participants. The findings suggested that native English speakers praised individuals more implicitly in comparison with Iranian EFL learners and native speakers provided opt-outs more frequently than Iranian EFL learners did. The analysis of data by Chi-square showed that gender and macro functions are independent of each other among Iranian EFL learners’ compliments while for native speakers, gender played a significant role in the distribution of appraisals. Iranian EFL learners’ complimenting patterns converge more towards those of native English speakers. Moreover, both groups favored explicit compliments. However, Iranian EFL learners were more inclined to provide explicit compliments. It can be concluded that there were more similarities rather than differences between Iranian EFL learners and native English speakers regarding compliment speech act. The results of this study can benefit researchers, teachers, material developers, and EFL learners.

In light of the understanding that the analysis of the generic features of different academic genres can enhance the ability of non-native members of academic discourse communities to understand, and where appropriate, to produce them, the present study aimed at investigating the dominant generic structure of research articles in mathematics. To start with a relatively narrow focus, a corpus of thirty mathematics research articles were randomly selected from The Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society(BIMS), and were analyzed in terms of their macro-organizational structure. An eleven-move structure was identified in the analyzed corpus, while it was also found that the research articles in the corpus did not follow the conventional Introduction-Methods-Results-Discussion structure found in many other disciplines. Methods and Discussion sections which are frequently encountered in research articles of many other disciplines were missing in the analyzed articles. It is argued that the findings may have theoretical implications in revealing some discipline specific conventions of organizing macro structure. Since all the authors were Iranian, the emerging model should be treated cautiously because some aspects of the emerging macro structure may also be under the influence of culture specific conventions.