the present study is an attempt to investigate the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving english abstract vocabulary recall. to achieve this goal, a multiple choice language proficiency test of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students whose age ranged between 17 to 22 and they were studying en...

cml in breif cml is characterized by the proliferation of large numbers of immature wbc in the blood and bone marrow. in most of the patients , it is a clonal disorder in which all cell lines, express the philadelphia chromosome)q/22 translocation(it accounts for 20 of all leukemias and most cases occur over 25 yrs of age. the disease usually begins insidiously,but symptoms referable to anemia ...

this study investigated the effects of manipulating the cognitive complexity of tasks along +/- few elements and the time limits on l2 learners writing performance. to conduct the study, 60 iranian efl learners with two levels of proficiency, low and high intermediate, were selected and assigned to three groups based on the time devoted to task completion. the participants performed both a simp...

abstract the current study set out to address the issue as to whether the implementation of portfolio assessment would give rise to iranian pre-intermediate efl learner autonomy. participants comprised 60 female in pre-intermediate level within the age range of 16-28.they were selected from among 90 language learners based on their scores on language proficiency test -key english test. then, t...

for any educational program to be successful, many factors work hand in hand. based on pervious efl studies, teachers and learners are the keys to gain achievement. granted the fact that explicit and implicit practice plays a key role in education, knowledge of it can help teachers facilitate students’ vocabulary learning. this study investigated to determine the contribution of explicit and i...

this is an original study on the effect of a polyisobutylene – polydimethylsiloxane (pibpdms) block copolymer modifier used as an interfacial active agent on the dynamics behaviour of single newtonian drops suspended in a polyisobutylene (pib) newtonian matrix. the results were divided in two sections. the first part included the experiments carried out on the non-modified and 2% block cop...

تحقیق حاضر به بررسی کاربرد روش ژانر-محور را در محیط آموزش زبان عمومی می پردازد.روش ژانر-محور به زبان آموزان کمک میکند که در زمینه خوانش پیشرفت کنند. بعضی از محققین معتقد اند که روش تدریس ژانر-محور به تدریج به زبان آموزان کمک می کند تا در درک ژانر های مختلف مهارت یابند (هایلند 2004).همچنین امروزه توجه روز افزونی به اهمیت استفاده از ادبیات در برنامه آموزشی زبان انگلیسی (esl/efl ) شده است. زمانی ک...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

this study purported to compare and contrast the use of self-mention and evidentials as two mtadiscourse features in opinion columns of persian and english newspapers. the theoretical basis of this study is the idea that metadiscourse features vary across cultural boundaries. for this purpose, 150 persian and 150 english opinion columns were collected based on three factors of topic, audience a...

در این پژوهش به منظور درک سن و محیط رسوبی سازند آسماری در برش کوه شجبیل، شمال غرب یاسوج به ضخامت 375 متر 171 نمونه برداشت گردیده است. سازند آسماری در برش مورد مطالعه با معیارهای سنگ شناختی به سه واحد مشخص تفکیک شده است. این واحد ها با داشتن شمای آهک های مسیو، ضخیم، متوسط و نازک لایه، آهک های نازک لایه ی مارنی و بعضاً مارن مشخص می گردد. در این برش تعداد 18 جنس و 29 گونه از فرامینیفرهای بنتیک شنا...