The Course of Educational Change: Challenge and Opportunity

Change, Challenge, and Opportunity in Business Languages

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality

this thesis is about the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality.

the relationship between using language learning strategies, learners’ optimism, educational status, duration of learning and demotivation

with the growth of more humanistic approaches towards teaching foreign languages, more emphasis has been put on learners’ feelings, emotions and individual differences. one of the issues in teaching and learning english as a foreign language is demotivation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of language learning strategies, optimism, duration o...

The prevention challenge and opportunity.

In the United States, more money is spent on treating diseases and their complications than on preventing them in the first place. Prevention is both undervalued and poorly supported in our health system. In this Perspective I discuss how the McKinlay model can be used to illustrate the three levels at which we need to increase our investment in prevention. I recognize the many challenges in im...