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This study aims to examine the effects of employing a mere Task-Based Approach (TB) and a Translation-Assisted Task-Based Approach (TATB) in promoting EFL learners’ news story writing skill. The subjects who participated in this study were 82 Iranian BA sophomores majoring in translation at Islamic Azad University, Hamedan Branch. To this aim, the participants were homogeneously assigned to two groups, i.e. control group (TB) and the experimental group (TATB). Both groups passed through the different phases of Willis’ TBL framework and the translation task was given only to the experimental or the TATB group. In other words, both groups were exposed to a 6-week TB intervention with only the experimental group benefiting from the translation practice at the end of the third phase. To obtain the related data, the researchers administered an evaluation exam on news-story writing at the pre- and post-task evaluation phases, itself prepared by the researchers and put to the test of expert judgment. The results showed that TATB group outperformed the mere TB group which indicates that applying translation-assisted task-based approach in teaching news story writing could significantly improve both the experimental group’s overall performance on news-story writing and some of its different aspects such as the use of Wh/H data, word choice, context, consistency, structure, and simple language.

This paper is a critical study of two Persian translations of Oscar Wilde’s playscript “Salomé”, which brings under study the issue of textual manipulations in translating the mentioned playscript from a textological viewpoint. It is to be said that the selection of the two translations under study, one by Abdollah Kowsari and the other by Abolhasan Tahami, has been based on the feature of the popularity of either the translator or the publisher and the choice of the typological items included in this study has been made on the basis of comparing the texts of both Persian translations with the original English version of the playscript “Salomé” published in 1894. The central question in this study addresses the ways by which the source text of the playscript has been manipulated in the two Persian translations, a question whose answer has been sought in three overall patterns of 1) elimination of certain parts of the English text in translation 2) addition of certain parts to the translated text and 3) distorting the stylistic patterns of the text, by looking into a sample of problematic items detected in the texts of both translations. Examining the samples drawn out in this study is suggestive of translational manipulation in both translated texts, and supports the finding that the effort by the two translators at rendering this literary playscript has made the Persian versions of the work undergo a range of undue distortions in the textual level as compared with the English text; what has brought about the textual transmogrification of the work in translation.

A critical glance at certain researches and articles on "Persian Word-selection", especially in some issues of Name-Ye Farhangestan quarterly, tells of adopting a one-sided approach of science-oriented 'word selection' in response to the pacing overflow of foreign terms, particularly English. It is implied by reading and reviewing such studies that Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature (Farhangestan-e Zaban va Adab-e Farsi-ye Iran) has taken on-board the act of foregrounding the 'scientific word-selection' program via centralizing the approach of 'scientific word-selection'. In other words, the approach adopted in the studies and writings published by this planning institution are more towards centralizing the activity of 'scientific word-selection'. This is while equivalent-providing for the increasing input of foreign languages is not to be solely restricted to scientific words or, more expertly expressed, to scientific terms. Undoubtedly, lingual equivalent-providing covers a wider scope of language, that is it incorporates the more general supra-scientific discourses as well as their related lexicology. The study of the mainstream trend of equivalent-providing in Persian language and the status and magnitude of the need for lexical equivalent-providing in other supra-scientific discursive fields, as compared with the scientific discourses, is the question which the present study is going to deal with.

Human’s confrontations with eye-catching geological phenomena over the ages have led to the creation of certain cultural innovations. This article aims to introduce what is to be dealt with and studied in the light of the incipient science of ‘geo-anthropology’. Meanwhile, the ‘geo-tale’ is among such instances of the fusion of geological and cultural themes which have been conceived and grown in the realm of human mind. This article, through casting a glance at the geo-tale of ‘Pirzene Mount2’, aims to provide a study on how such a ‘geo-cultural’ phenomenon comes into existence.

Basing its foundation on the common sense and relying on the human rationality as a collective tool, this study brings to light the fact that touring in nature by providing the due opportunity of gaining underived data through the rationalistic exploration of nature in its rich variety of geomorphologic and geological phenomena can afford a clearer definition of ‘beauty', hence the term ‘aesthetic geotourism'. In other words, the geotourist in his own endeavor by taking the natural paths leading to a closer look at the delicate strands of the rich fabric of nature is involved in a rationalistic attempt which will culminate in coming up with an illuminated mental concept of beauty. In the last analysis, touring in the nature and its geological phenomena is among the effective factors helping to illuminate and clarify man's mental concept of beauty, which in itself can open a more reliable horizon toward developing a sustainable geotourism based on rationalistic geological aesthetics.