one of the major sources of psychology in the field of teaching english as foreign language in iranian universities is a book named the psychology of the language learner: individual differences in second language acquisition written by zoltan dornyei. the book was first published in 2005 and was later revised in 2015 and published by routledge. this study thus aims to analyze this book critica...

The use of technology to support the digital production, distribution and storage of scientific content in full-text formats poses challenges for authors and publishers as well as for the librarians and scientists who access the materials. While scientific publishers still have to produce high-quality print products, they have had to develop new production systems that are now able to produce b...

Precis: We discuss the behaviour of prices in an n-sector, circulating capital model with no joint production, of the type considered by Sraffa in Part I of his book. Instead of following Sraffa's approach, which uses the notion of proportions of labour to means of production in the various "layers" of means of production, we base our analysis directly on the characteristic roots and vectors of...

0360-1315/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.11.014 * Tel./fax: +972 3 5245284. E-mail address: [email protected] The effect of reading an electronic storybook (e-book) on Israeli children’s language and literacy was examined in kindergarten children (N = 40; age 5:2–6:3) compared to first graders (N = 50; age 6:3– 7:4). The children in each age group were ra...

This study investigated the discourse effects on intermediate English as foreign language (EFL) learners’ production of dative constructions including prepositional dative (PD), I gave a book to John, and double-object dative (DOD), I gave John a book. The author argues that the alternation between these two constructions is determined by the order of given and new (GN) information that is foll...

book social media are reading communities primarily developed as online social networks. this study aims to find precise criteria and indicators for evaluation of book social network and examine and rank the most popular book social networks. the sample population included 10 english and two persian book/reading social networks publicly available on the web. a checklist containing 9 main criter...

Becker's notion of art worlds "examines the relationships among creators, distribution networks, art works, and society" ​ (Alexander, 2003, pg. 67). Becker also argues that every aspect of the art world is shaped by the whole system that produces them"”art is a collective activity and a process, not just a finished product. The production of culture perspective also sees how art is created, pr...

One day, you will discover a new adventure and knowledge by spending more money. But when? Do you think that you need to obtain those all requirements when having much money? Why don't you try to get something simple at first? That's something that will lead you to know more about the world, adventure, some places, history, entertainment, and more? It is your own time to continue reading habit....