the debate whether esp teachers need to have knowledge of the specialized field they are teaching has been an issue in the literature over the last two decades. the aim of conducting this study was to explore iranian learners’ and instructors’ beliefs and attitudes concerning the role of specialized knowledge in teaching esp classes. a seventeen item questionnaire was administered to 400 esp le...

these days, all department stores make an effort to provide their clients with valuable products in order to project the best image for them. as a result, clients’ comprehension risk will decrease and they will be more willing to repurchase. having a good image is really important for the department stores because it makes an impression on clients’ comprehension of both quality and risk. consid...

abstract: the present study is an attempt to find out cultural exophoric references in iranian high-school elt textbooks and touch stone series to compare the frequency of occurrence of such references in these books. the purpose is to find out which of the series of the books under investigation impose a greater referential burden on efl learners as far as their reading comprehension of the ...

abstract: postmethod is a newly developed pedagogy which as an alternative to method rejects the notion of good or bad methods and the concept of best method that can be generalized and appropriate for all contexts. instead, it treats each context as unique and one of a kind which cant be compared with other cases. this study is a postmethod-oriented one which investigates whether and how far t...

کتاب تبصره المومنین(نگارش در سال1080ق) تالیف محمد مومن حسینی تنکابنی، جوابیه و ردّیه ای بر سخنان ملامحمد طاهر قمی در کتاب تحفه الاخیار است. این تحقیق تصحیح انتقادی و نقد وبررسی این کتاب است که نسخه مجلس شورای اسلامی اساس قرارداده شده و با سه نسخه دیگر مقابله شده است. نویسنده کتاب یکی از پزشکان دربار شاه سلیمان صفوی(1077) است. وی در عصری زندگی می کند که تصوف وصوفیان اگرچه درحمایت نسبی حکومت هستند...

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

the present thesis is a study of postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. according to postmodern historiography,the established institution of history is one of the other manifestations of patriarchys power which has silenced women. the study analyzes angela carters nights at the circus as a postmodern historical novel which makes its female characters transgress the pat...

چکیده در این پژوهش، رابطه بین سبک های مقابله ای با جرأت ورزی و پرخاشگری در دانشجویان دانشگاه بین المللی امام خمینی (ره) بررسی شد. نمونه مورد بررسی، شامل 200 نفر (121 زن و 79 مرد) از دانشجویان دانشگاه مورد نظر در دو جنس است که از طریق روش نمونه گیری خوشه ای تصادفی، انتخاب و به پرسشنامه های الگوهای پاسخ دهی بین فردی تونند و پرسشنامه سبک های مقابله ای اندلر و پارکر پاسخ دادند. همچنین از روش های ...

abstract part one: the electrode oxidation potentials of a series of eighteen n-hydroxy compounds in aqueous solution were calculated based on a proper thermodynamic cycle. the dft method at the level of b3lyp-6-31g(d,p) was used to calculate the gas-phase free energy differences ,and the polarizable continuum model (pcm) was applied to describe the solvent and its interaction with n-hydroxy ...

due to extraordinary large amount of information and daily sharp increasing claimant for ui benefits and because of serious constraint of financial barriers, the importance of handling fraud detection in order to discover, control and predict fraudulent claims is inevitable. we use the most appropriate data mining methodology, methods, techniques and tools to extract knowledge or insights from ...