OBJECTIVE Assessment of social skills is a necessary requirement to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive and behavioral interventions. This paper reports the cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Farsi version of the social skills rating system-secondary students form (SSRS-SS) questionnaire (Gresham and Elliot, 1990), in a normative sample of secondary school st...

due to the lack of users knowledge of the collections used by search engines and in general retrieval systems, users can not express their information need appropriately in queries. in other words, they do not have enough experience to formulate their needs to find related documents. the idea of user’s query expansion aims to help users to improve and correct the queries. in fact, retrieval sys...

this study was an attempt to investigate the realization of catford’s shifts in the farsi translation of english psychology texts, a product-oriented point of view, shedding light on the areas farsi is different english. inspired by a study conducted by khorshidi (2010), the two questions raised in the study sought to detect the kinds of shifts applied in the translation of english psychology t...

in german, a relative clause is marked by relative pronoun, which agrees withtheir head noun in gender and number. however, relative clauses in farsi arealways introduced by using a conjunction “ke”. this difference could be iranianand german learners when learning languages, german and farsi to confrontdifficulties. the present study focuses on relativisation strategies based ontypological ana...

By reviewing the literature on development of English language teaching methods in last three decades, it is obvious that idea using first (L1) second (L2) classroom has always been controversial. The history pedagogy and role foreign learning generate debates as a language. growing every day Iran, result, need for informing best policy getting more urgent. principal intent current study, inves...

this paper seeks to find out the degree of the rhetorical variation between the introduction sections of research papers published in english for international journals and those published in farsi in the area of computer sciences. to this end, a corpus of 100 farsi and 100 english research papers were collected and analyzed sentence by sentence based on swales’ 1990 cars model. the results rev...

A conversion from orthographic (written) form to a phonetic transcription is the first stage in a text-to-speech system. In this study, algorithms are presented to facilitate the text-to-phoneme (TTP) conversion for the Farsi language. Using a lexicon of about 15000 base morphemes, word formation rules are investigated and implemented. Moreover, a word segmentation of the written sentence has t...

This Paper presents a method for lexicon reduction of Printed Farsi subwords based on their holistic shape features. Because of the large number of Persian subwords variously shaped from a simple letter to a complex combination of several connected characters, it is not easy to find a fixed shape descriptor suitable for all subwords. In this paper, we propose to select the descriptor according ...

the focus of this paper lies on abu ali farsi's general views on the development of linguistic phenomena including synonymity, antonymity, parallelism, lexical assimilation, and metathesis. the paper sheds light on the views erroneously attributed to abu ali farsi, somehow analyzing and rectifying misinterpretations given to his views.