Khany, Reza
Aliakbari, Mohammad
Mohammadi, Saeedeh
Article History
Received: 2 August 2018
Accepted: 16 December 2018
First Online: 16 January 2019
Authors’ information
: 1. R K is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics in English Department of Ilam University. He is the head of English department in Ilam University. He has taught various EFL, ESP, and TEFL courses in BA, MA, and Ph.D. educational degrees. His interests include pragmatics, corpus linguistics, second language writing, sociolinguistics, and structural equation modeling approach. He had presented and published many research papers in various areas of research.2. M A is full professor in Applied Linguistics currently teaching Ph.D. and M.A. courses and supervising various theses in Ilam University. His interests include pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition. He is a publisher of many research papers in various areas of research.3. S M is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics in Ilam University. She got her BA in English translation from Zanjan University and her MA in TEFL from Guilan University. She is now teaching different courses in Zanjan Farhangian University. She is also an EFL teacher in Education Office. She is interested in the areas of corpus analysis, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, academic writing and publishing, and pragmatics. She has conducted different studies in related areas.
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