One of the latest urban development strategies that emphasizes the importance of culture and art in the urban development process is the idea of creative city. Creative city is a cultural approach of urban development that emphasizes the improvement of the citizens’ life quality through the attraction and development of people's talents and creativity. The purpose of this study is to investigat...

in this study, the relationship between teachers’ creative and critical thinking skills and their reflectivity in teaching was investigated. to this end, three questions were raised. these questions were intended to determine whether there was a significant relationship between teachers’ creative thinking skills and their reflectivity in teaching; whether there was a significant relationship be...

this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of teaching meta cognitive strategies on iranian intermediate efl students speaking proficiency. in this study the researcher has employed metacognitive strategies taken from brown (2000) to teach speaking strategies to number of participants. the participants were intermediate students of shokouh language institute; they were divided into an ...

during the process of reading, sometimes learners use ineffective and inefficient strategies and some factors may influence their use of strategies. perhaps critical thinking is one of these factors. this study aims to identify those categories of reading strategies that are mostly used by iranian efl learners and to see if there is any significant relationship between the critical thinking abi...

a study of graphic user interface of children’s and teenagers’ websites in iran   z. salimi*      s. ghaffari** islamic azad university, hamedan branch   abstract the present study was conducted to investigate children’s and teenagers’ website graphic user interface (gui) level. its purpose is to help the iranian children and teenagers to select suitable websites and also help designers t...