Volume 56 (2023)
Volume 55 (2022)
Volume 54 (2021)
Volume 53 (2020)
Volume 52 (2019)
Volume 51 (2018)
Volume 50 (2017)
Volume 49 (2016)
Volume 48 (2015)
Volume 47 (2014)

Journal of Language and Translation Studies (LTS) is an open access and double-blind journal which publishes original and high-quality articles in Persian. It aims to publish empirically-grounded research across all areas of language teaching, translation studies and foreign literature. The journal does not accept review articles and book reviews. It is necessary to mention that journal of LTS does not consider manuscripts concerned with Arabic language, literature and translation.

Research Article
Social and Institutional Secrets in Little Dorrit: A Game Theoretic Reading of Dickens’ Realism

Nadya Alkola; Sara Khazai

Volume 57, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 1-27

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.2023.79676.1167

Abstract
  Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit incorporates an appealing realistic treatment of social and institutional secrets. Realism is characterized by its attention to details beyond the story world. This article proposes that Dickens portrays social and institutional secrets as unfair game systems, controlled ...  Read More

An Introduction to Multiple Meanings of Rhetoric
Volume 50, Issue 1 , April 2017, , Pages 27-52

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v50i1.64634

Abstract
  1. IntroductionRhetoric is a term that has significantly changed in meaning throughout the history. Not enough attention has been given to the term’s conceptual complexity in Persian and its vast meaning in literary studies. Although it is impossible to differentiate between the various meanings ...  Read More

Applications of Rhetorical Figures (Badih) in Persian and English Languages: A Comparative Study
Volume 54, Issue 2 , July 2021, , Pages 31-59

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v54i2.86858

Abstract
  In spite of similarities between Iranian-Islamic rhetoric and English-European rhetoric, figures of speech, figures of expression and semantics have been the focus of the former, while the latter includes accuracy. Also, Iranian-Islamic rhetoric focuses on written rhetoric, whereases spoken rhetoric ...  Read More

Representation of Translators’ Habitus: A Case Study of Saleh Hosseini’s Style in Persian Translation of Moby Dick; Or the Whale and To the Lighthouse
Volume 54, Issue 1 , April 2021, , Pages 81-106

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v54i1.85424

Abstract
  Translator studies, as a recent subfield of Translation Studies, focuses explicitly on translators rather than translated texts since translators create texts. While translators have been studied from different cultural and cognitive perspectives, their translatorial style from sociological perspectives ...  Read More

A Marxist Reading of Albee’s The Zoo Story
Volume 52, Issue 4 , February 2020, , Pages 113-131

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v52i3.73155

Abstract
  Marxism is the school based on Karl Marx’s idea on the political and economic conditions governing the world. Marx considers the economic motivations present behind all decisions in the capitalist society. The aim of this article is to analyze Marxist ideas present in Albee’s The Zoo Story, ...  Read More

A Critical Evaluation of Vision 3: Rights Analysis and Culture in the Spotlight
Volume 53, Issue 4 , February 2021, , Pages 97-133

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.v53i4.86517

Abstract
  This study critically evaluated the newly published Iranian twelfth-grade English textbook, Vision 3, with a focus on ‘rights analysis’ and ‘culture’ adopting a mixed-methods design. To this end, 200 Iranian school English teachers and 200 twelfth-grade students were selected ...  Read More

Research Article
The Relationships among Emotions, Emo-Sensory Intelligence, and Writing Score: A Comparison of Iranian and Iraqi EFL Students

Faten Mohammed Hussein Alaaid; Elham Naji Meidani

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 30 January 2024

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.2023.80618.1175

Abstract
  The present study attempted to investigate and compare Iranian and Iraqi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students' emotional states experienced in writing classes. To do this, 301 Iraqi and Iranian university students were asked to fill out the Writing Emotions Scale (WES) and the Emo-Sensory ...  Read More

Research Article
An Error Analysis of Persian–Kurdish Bilingual Learners in Using English Articles and investigating the effect of Flipped Learning on their performance: A Mental Spaces Approach

Elham Sobati; Zahra Mowlaei; tahereh afshar; Mehdi Omidi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 14 November 2024
 

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.2024.86539.1239

Abstract
  This research aims to analyze the types of writing errors of language learners when using English language articles based on the theory of mental spaces. This study focused on the types of errors produced by bilingual Kurdish-Persian female students aged 12 to 15 and female students aged 18 to 21 in ...  Read More

Research Article
Failures of Ideological States Apparatuses in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange (1962)

Alireza Khazaee; Zohreh Taebi Noghandari; Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 14 November 2024
 

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.2022.75385.1114

Abstract
  Althusser believed governments require toolkits in order to fulfill the desires of the ruling class. He proposed that the old-school mono-system pattern which the earlier Marxist developed, due to which governments functioned solely by repression, is not lacking and does not include every state-related ...  Read More

Research Article
Exploring James Holmes' Fourfold Translation Strategies in Four Persian Translations of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Abolfazl Horri

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 14 November 2024
 

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.2024.84983.1226

Abstract
  This article compares four Persian translations of Shakespearean sonnets, analyzing selected verses in light of Holmes's proposed translation strategies. The study aims to identify prevailing translation strategies. According to Holmes, the translated poetry is a "meta-poetry," and the translator, a ...  Read More

Research Article
Iranian EFL Teachers’ Strategies to Correct Their Own Induced Errors in the Classroom and the Factors Influencing Their Approaches

Zahra Mahmoudabadi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 14 November 2024
 

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.2024.89028.1271

Abstract
  This study explored the strategies employed by Iranian EFL teachers to correct their own induced errors in the classroom. The study aimed to investigate the factors influencing teachers' error correction decision-making and compare their approaches to correcting their own errors and learner errors. Twelve ...  Read More

Research Article
Intermediate EFL Learners’ Attentional Oscillatory Changes During Test of Reading Comprehension

Mitra Zeraatpishe; Farnaz Farrokh Alaee; Farnaz Baradarn Farshchi

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 14 November 2024
 

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.2024.89046.1272

Abstract
  The current study aims to scrutinize the theta/beta ratio (TBR) brain oscillatory activities during test of reading comprehension. The research utilized a quasi-experimental design. Thirty intermediate EFL learners (15 males, 15 females) were selected to participate in the study. They completed a reading ...  Read More

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