testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...

چکیده منطقه مورد مطالعه، طاقدیس دنه خشک در جنوب غرب شهر سرپل ذهاب در استان کرمانشاه و بخشی از زون ساختمانی زاگرس چین خورده محسوب می شود. هدف مطالعه حاضر، بررسی نقش بالاآمدگی تکتونیکی در مورفومتری 103 دره واقع در دامنه های طاقدیس دنه خشک می باشد. جهت دستیابی به هدف فوق، محدوده 103 دره بر اساس مطالعات میدانی و به کمک تصویر ماهواره ای quickbird، تعیین گردید. پارامترهای کمی دره ها مانند عرض خروجی د...

abstract the primary purpose of this study was to explore the actual practices and cognitions of two groups of iranian eap teachers, i.e. language teachers and content teachers, with respect to teaching reading-comprehension and vocabulary. to this end, tehran university of medical sciences which authorizes both groups of teachers to teach eap courses was selected as the context of the study s...

abstract: research purpose: the purpose of this research is to identify academic databases assessment factors and criteria at law and political science majors. the necessity of this research is to distinguish academic databases assessment factors and criteria and to identify the most important ones and rank them in order to select an appropriate database according to students’ and faculty memb...

1.1 introduction “i see translation as the attempt to produce a text so transparent that it does not seem to be translated. a good translation is like a pane of glass. you only notice that it’s there when there are little imperfections- scratches, bubbles. ideally, there shouldn’t be any. it should never call attention to itself.” “norman shapiro” (venuti, 1995:1) edward fitzgerald is the br...

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...