List of Articles speech acts Open Access Article Abstract Page Full-Text 1 - A Contrastive Study of Request Speech Act in English and Persian Novels: Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach Ziba Amini Laya Heidari Darani Open Access Article Abstract Page Full-Text 2 - Impact of Teacher Motivational Practice on Iranian EFL Learners’ Request and Refusal Speech Acts Production Ahmad Molavi Reza Biria Azizeh Chalak Open Access Article Abstract Page Full-Text 3 - The Effect of Colligational Corpus-based Instruction on Enhancing the Pragmalinguistic Knowledge of Request Speech Act among Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners Batoul Sabzalipour Mansour Koosha Open Access Article Abstract Page Full-Text 4 - The Washback Effect of Task-based Assessment on the Iranian EFL Learners' Development of Pragmatic Competence Maryam Nazari Abbas Bayati Payman Rajabi