Editorial Volume 5, Issue 2 مقاله

EDITORIAL Dear JALDA reader, Our Journal's tendency towards the real world in language and literature studies should have significant epistemological and methodological consequences in researching the fields. A visit to Persian language and literature departments in Iran, let alone the English departments, however, and a review of their journals, for instance, would reveal how anxious researchers in the field are to learn the imported theories to apply them mostly to the reading of classical Persian literary texts. In Harvard Business Review, Bonchek has interesting comments on 'unlearning', which need to be quoted at length here: Ever since the publication of Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, 25 years ago, companies have sought to become "learning organizations" that continually transform themselves. According to my experience of research in our universities throughout their history, researchers in both applied linguistics and literary studies have attributed great significance to 'learning' theories giant scholars have formulated and their main job has been to put the theories to use in the Iranian context for the purpose of teaching English language and literature. A pragmatic approach to research in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Literary Studies is what seems to be more practical in the Iranian context. According to this view, applied linguistics should not be confined to 'language teaching. ' Its function should be 'language teaching in the context of the real world,' although, according to Rajagopalan (2004, p.