INNOVATIVE METHODS OF PERSONNEL TRAINING: FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC EXPERIENCE

origins of armenia’s foreign policy and its foreign policy towards iran

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

Foreign Direct Investment, Innovative Sources of Development Finance and Domestic Resource Mobilization

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Colin Bradford, Fantu Cheru and Sami Lahdensuo for very helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft. We are also grateful to Martti Hetemaki, Jaakko Iloniemi, Richard Samans, Andres Solimano, Jan Vandemoortele, and participants in the Geneva meeting of the Helsinki Process Track II (25-27 March 2004) for useful comments and background discussion...

effect of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of strategies

this study aimed to investigate the effects of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of such strategies. this work, employing an experimental methodology, was conducted among 60 adult efl learners from a language institute in isfahan, iran, as participants. the participants, who were selected based on the results of a placement test, were assigned t...

Foreign Income and Domestic Deductions

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...