the research questions were as follows: 1. is there any relationship between the students concious awareness of the form and implications of the conjuncations and their improvement in using appropriate conjunctions? 2. does students knowledge of the from and the implications of the conjunctions help them to produce more coherent writings. 3. does a comparison between english conjunctions and th...

abstract pragmatics is the study of communicative action in its sociocultural context. communicative action includes not only using speech acts (such as apologizing, complaining, complimenting, and requesting), but also engaging in different types of discourse and participating in speech events of varying length and complexity. the present study aimed to investigate the assessment of pragm...

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

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...

بررسی حاضر با هدف شناسائی انگل‏های خارجی برخی ماهیان آکواریومی شامل ماهی قرمز حوض (Carassius auratus auratus)، گوپی (Poecilia reticulata)، آنجل (Pterophyllum scalare) و گورامی دارف (Colisa lalia) صورت پذیرفت. برای این منظور تعداد 140 عدد ماهی بصورت تصادفی از مراکز فروش و تکثیر ماهی شهرستان اصفهان در سال 1391 جمع آوری و بصورت زنده و در شرایط مناسب به مرکز تحقیقات شیلات دانشگاه آزاد شهرکرد منتقل ...

در این بررسی که طی سالهای 1388 و 1389 انجام گرفت، در مجموع 18 گونه متعلق به 12 جنس و 9 خانواده جمع آوری شد که از این تعداد دو گونه برای اولین بار از ایران و نه گونه برای اولین بار از دنیا گزارش میشوند که به ترتیب با علامت (*) و (**) مشخص شدهاند. نام میزبان یا میزبانهای هر یک از کنهها در داخل کروشه [] درج شده است. کلیه نمونهها در کلکسیون کنه شناسی گروه حشره شناسی کشاورزی دانشگاه تربیت مدرس تهران...

a novel acrylic acid-functionalized fe3o4 magnetic nanoparticle with a core-shell structure was developed for utilization as a heterogeneous organosuperacid in chemical transformations. the structural, surface, and magnetic characteristics of the nanosized catalyst were investigated by various techniques such as transmission electron microscopy (tem), thermogravimetric analysis (tga), and ft-ir...

this thesis attempts to measure learning styles, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension. in order to address this issue, a quantitative study was conducted on some randomly selected intact students at ferdowsi university. these two groups were assigned as they were undergraduate (ba=91) and graduate (ma =74) students; they were all aged betwe...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between fear of negative evaluation (fne) and communication strategies (css) among iranian efl learners. it was aimed to examine the differences in the use of communication strategies between speakers with high or low degree of fear of negative evaluation. the current study was a case study consisting of 10 english learners at...