Jeanne H. McCarthy. The Children’s Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608: Pedagogue Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-boys. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. Pp xxiv, 251. Hardback £115.00. ISBN: 9781472487797.

Dominic Malcolm, Sport, Medicine and Health: The Medicalization of Sport? (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. x+212, £105, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-138-82645-8.

on the relationship between using discourse markers and the quality of expository and argumentative academic writing of iranian english majors

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Francesca Di Marco, Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. xviii, 198, $155.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-138-93776-5.

the cover picture of an attendant spraying a powerful hose of water on a naked patient), de Young generally makes an effort to outline the ideas behind therapeutics and to put them in context. She observes, throughout, that physicians articulated their desire to help incurable patients, which helps to explain some of the more desperate interventions she describes (although, occasionally, she re...

the survey of the virtual higher education in iran and the ways of its development and improvement

این پژوهش با هدف "بررسی وضعیت موجود آموزش عالی مجازی در ایران و راههای توسعه و ارتقای آن " و با روش توصیفی-تحلیلی و پیمایشی صورت پذیرفته است. بررسی اسنادو مدارک موجود در زمینه آموزش مجازی نشان داد تعداد دانشجویان و مقاطع تحصیلی و رشته محل های دوره های الکترونیکی چندان مطلوب نبوده و از نظر کیفی نیز وضعیت شاخص خدمات آموزشی اساتید و وضعیت شبکه اینترنت در محیط آموزش مجازی نامطلوب است.