abstract while task-based instruction is considered as the most effective way to learn a language in the related literature, it is oversimplified on various grounds. different variables may affect how students are engaged with not only the language but also with the task itself. the present study was conducted to investigate language and task related engagement on the basis of the task typolog...

Adjustment is currently among the most important signs of mental health in adolescents. We aimed to investigate the relationship between identity styles with emotional, social, and educational adjustment in high school students. The study population consisted of male and female high school students in the academic year 94-95 in the city of Kermanshah that 282 persons (160 girls and 122 boys) ...

this thesis seeks to present a critical reading of virginia woolf’s mrs. dalloway and michael cunningham’s the hours in terms of an intertextual approach, concentrating on dialogic imagination, negativity, transposition and allusion. this study attempts to evaluate cunninghams perception of woolfs life and work by adopting kristevas conception of intertextuality and her consideration of the hou...

vocabulary as a major component of language learning has been the object of numerous studies each of which has its own contribution to the field. finding the best way of learning the words deeply and extensively is the common objective of most of those studies. however, one effective way for achieving this goal is somehow neglected in the field. using a variety of activities such as games can r...

Background and Objectives: Academic achievement is considered as an important task for teens under the effect of multiple personal and social factors. Identity styles and achievement motivation, as psychological structures, are of two categories of these factors .Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between identity styles and achievement motivation among high sc...