the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

cohesion is an indispensable linguistic feature in discourse analysis. lexicald such a differe cohesion and conjunction in particular as two crucial elements to textual cohesion and comprehension has been the focus of a wide range of studies up to now. yet the relationship between the open register and cohesive devices has not been thoroughly investigated in discourse studies. this study concen...

درک الگوی توزیع مکانی ماکروفون خاک بدلیل اثرات آن روی فرآیندهای اکوسیستم بسیار مهم است. لیکن اطلاعات کمی در این خصوص وجود دارد. درمورد تنوع زیستی ارگانیسم ها وجانداران خاکزی که ازاجزای مهم وکلیدی درهرسیستم اکولوژیکی هستند و در بهبود حاصلخیزی خاک و تولیدات زمین وپایداری اکوسیستم ها(ازطریق فرآیندهای بیولوژیک)نقش عمده دارند تحقیقات کمی انجام شده است. این تحقیق جهت بررسی الگوی مکانی پارامترهای تنوع...

acknowledgements i wish to express my gratitude to all those who have helped me in preparing this thesis. i would like to express my deep gratitude to my respected advisor dr. kourosh akef, whose advice and comments helped me in the early stages of the research and throughout the writing process. i would also like to express my gratitude to dr. hajar khanmohammad whose invaluable guidance he...

in this study reference as one of the five cohesive devices in the achievement of textuality in english and persian narrative/descripitive written texts is focused on and analysed . to do so , the theoretical framework elaborated by halliday and hasan (1976) and its version adapted by the writer to match the sub-types of reference in farsi are applied to the analysis of reference in english and...

Since the fluctuations of the Persian Gulf Sea Surface Temperature (PGSST) have a significant effect on the winter precipitation and water resources and agricultural productions of the south western parts of Iran, the possibility of the Winter SST prediction was evaluated by multiple regression model. The time series of PGSSTs for all seasons, during 1947-1992, were considered as predictors, an...

Various strategies have been developed to reduce water consumption in rice cultivation, including rice cultivation in water-saturated soil, drying and wetting of the soil (periodic irrigation), and aerobic rice cultivation. In this study, in order to identify and grouping rice cultivars suitable for aerobic cultivation, 34 cultivars of native and improved rice cultivars were selected and eval...

the present study is paid to the evaluation of the welfare program of the unemployment insurance in iran. the main purpose which was the main reason for performing this thesis, was the unemployment insurance plan’s challenges in iran such as financial problems of this plan, prolongation of the credit receipt for some insured people, unemployment slow exiting from the unemployment insurance fund...