abstract recent studies suggest that prelistening activities play an important role in the development of listening comprehension (e.g. long 1990;chiang and dunkel 1992; schmidt-rinehart 1994; jensen and hansen 1995; robinson et al., 1995; buck, 1995; foster and skehan,1996; teng 1996; robinson, 2001; chang and read 2006). in line with previous studies and to shed light on a new aspect of sche...

this experimental study has been conducted to test the effect of oral presentation on the development of l2 learners grammar. but this oral presentation is not merely a deductive instruction of grammatical points, in this presentation two hypotheses of krashen (input and low filter hypotheses), stevicks viewpoints on grammar explanation and correction and widdowsons opinion on limited use of l1...

 Performance management as a new and important subject is studied in strategic human resource management. Personnel performance appraisal is also one of the serious subjects in human resource management. In this article, designing a personnel evaluation system is considered. Phases of this design are as follow: Steps taken for designing such system are:   1- Reviewing the literature  2- Determi...

Introduction: The management controls are the tactics which managers have to execute continually and logically to assure the compatibility of behaviour and performance of their own organization with the goals, programs, standards and the corect and proper execution of the programs.The control has a vital imprtance for preserving and permanence and effectiveness and usefulness of all systems and...

burnout is a response to the chronic work stress which is prevalent mostly among the people who do people job, like teaching. the purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument that can measure burnout in foreign language teachers. although some widely used instruments were developed before which measured burnout in teachers, a specific instrument which include specific sy...

cohesion is an indispensable linguistic feature in discourse analysis. lexicald such a differe cohesion and conjunction in particular as two crucial elements to textual cohesion and comprehension has been the focus of a wide range of studies up to now. yet the relationship between the open register and cohesive devices has not been thoroughly investigated in discourse studies. this study concen...

Abstract Introduction: Clinical governance is a framework in which the organization providing clinical services is accountable for continuing improvement of quality of clinical service excellence. Objective: This study aimed to determine obstacles of clinical governance administration from view point of managers and nurses in hospitals affiliated to Jahrom University of Medical Sciences...