since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of podcasts as a learning and teaching tool on iranian efl learners’ motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. the study also investigated the learners’ perception towards listening to podcasts and examined whether the learners were likely to accept podcasts. out of fifty-five intermediate learners studying e...

From legal perspective, the boundary between public and private sectors and organizations is of great importance. The distinction between private and public sectors affects prominent issues like balancing the territories of market and government, determining the scopes of private and public sector functions, implementation of national accounts and Public Sector Accounting Standards, specifying ...

adolescents and young adults and their problems is an issue whose importance is obvious to anyone because youth are the founders of our countrys future and requires proper planning to be on leisure. given the importance of leisure,this study to investigate needs assessment and planning how adolescents and young adults spend their leisure time in urban of case study of high school girls and boys...

the skill of reading in english as a foreign language is an important and challenging one which is affected both by linguistic and extra linguistic factors. since vocabularies are part and parcel of every reading comprehension text, knowing enough vocabulary always facilitates this process. however, guessing strategy as one of the most important strategies has consistently ignored by language l...

the present study aimed to investigate representation of discourse markers and metadiscourse markers in conversations and readings of general elt coursebook series used in the language centers of iran. to this aim, four elt coursebooks popularly taught in language centers of this country were analyzed based on fung and carter’s (2007) framework regarding discourse markers and hyland’s (2005) fr...

this study aimed to investigate the effects of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of such strategies. this work, employing an experimental methodology, was conducted among 60 adult efl learners from a language institute in isfahan, iran, as participants. the participants, who were selected based on the results of a placement test, were assigned t...

Abstract the purpose of this study is to identify the obstacles to the transfer of sports facilities from the Ministry of Sports and Youth to the private sector. The research method is descriptive-analytic. The statistical sample of the same statistical society is 145 people, consisting of deputies, managers and sports experts of the Sports and Youth Department, physical education professors o...

چکیده پژوهشکده امام خمینی(س) و انقلاب اسلامی مقطع تحصیلی:کارشناسی ارشدچکیده پژوهشکده امام خمینی(س) و انقلاب اسلامی مقطع تحصیلی:کارشناسی ارشد رشته تحصیلی:اندیشه سیاسی در اسلام عنوان پایان نامه:تبیین نظریه حکومت اسلامی امام خمینی بر مبنای الگوی فهم نظریات سیاسی اسپریگنز نام و نام خانوادگی دانشجو:علی مرادی استاد راهنما:دکتر یحیی فوزی استاد مشاور:دکتر منصور انصاری تاریخ شروع پایان نام...