The present study sought to investigate Persian verbal humor in light of General Theory of
Verbal Humor. To this aim, initially a corpus of Persian online jokes was built. The jokes …

Implications Teachers should identify opportunities for using realia and collect realia to use
in the classroom (Herrell & Jordan, 2008). Realia lends itself mostly to everyday English and …

This study investigated the effectiveness of cognitive and metacognitive strategy use on EFL
learners' receptive language skills. The participants of the study were 60 Iranian EFL …

The present study aimed at investigating Persian verbal humor from the perspective of
Relevance Theory (RT). Based on the cognitive and communicative principles of this theory …

The researcher was interested to explore the possible effects of L1-L2 lexicalization
mismatch on the acquisition and retention of receptive vocabulary knowledge by 90 Persian …

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted traditional pedagogies and modalities for facilitating
instruction to all students, including those enrolled in higher education courses. Given the …

Informed by entrenchment and usage-based theories, this mixed methods study, modeled
after Riazi's mixed methods fully integrated design, examined how reading and writing may …

The present research examined the underlying structure of Persian online jokes to shed light
on how humor was realized (and reinforced) in this genre of verbal humor. In light of our …

The researcher aimed at investigating the possible effects of first language-second
language (L1-L2) lexicalization mismatch on the acquisition and retention of productive …

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of two vocabulary learning strategies on
promoting mentally retarded EFL learners' vocabulary learning in short-term and long-term …