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...

Kurds of Khorasan regions live in its northern regions and are called kurmanj. During the rule of the Safavid dynasty, Kurds of Turkey, Syria and Caucasus in west Azerbaijan were moved to Khorasan to evade invasions of the Ottomans and were settled there. This movement of Kurds from Western Iran to northern Khorasan and their adjacency with Balooch and Turkmen people influenced their carpet wea...

The practice and study of medicine in Persia has a long and prolific history. The present study examines recorded information on the subject of medicine during the Sassanid period based on Avesta and Pahlavic texts such as Dinkard, Bundahishn, Sad dar Nasr and Sad dar Bundahishn. Moreover, Sassanid medicine was under the influences of neighboring countries such as Egypt and Greece. The Sassanid...

the main purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between listening proficiency and metacognitive listening strategies awareness among low, mid, and highly self-regulated students. three hundred and seventy one efl students participated in this study (all grade 3 and 4 high-school students who were studying in khansar in academic year 1391-92). to gather the data, three ...

to discuss my point, i have collected quite a number of articles, anthologies, and books about "wuthering heights" applying various ideas and theories to this fantastic story. hence, i have come to believe that gadamer and jauss are rightful when they claim that "the individaul human mind is the center and origin of all meaning," 3 that reading literature is a reader-oriented activity, that it ...

There are 25 underglaze painted tiles in Vazir Bathhouse of isfahan that have not been studied and identified yet. These tiles are among the few remaining Kubachi tile samples in their original installation location, which remain untouched from looting. Identifying and introducing the Vazir Bathhouse's tiles are very important to recognize the Kubachi potteries, since the proof of the Kubachi n...