the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of instruction through debate on male and female efl learners’ reading comprehension, to examine the differences between the performance of male and female participants on the five dimensions of cctst including analysis, evaluation, inference, deductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning, and to examine the differences between male ...

in the area of vocabulary teaching and learning although much research has been done, only some of it has led to effective techniques of vocabulary teaching and many language learners still have problem learning vocabulary. the urge behind this study was to investigate three methods of teaching words. the first one was teaching words in context based on a traditional method of teaching that is,...

چکیده یکی از پارامترهای اصلی در دنبال کردن تاریخچه ی تشکیل ستاره ها و تحول کهکشان ها، مطالعه ی میزان فراوانی عناصر آن ها است. در این پایان نامه برای مطالعه ی همبستگی میان فراوانی فلزی و جرم ستاره ای کهکشان ها، از داده های طیفی 89 کهکشانِ ستاره زا استفاده شده است. طیف ها توسط طیف نگار فورس2 از میدان ژرف جنوبی چاندرا گرفته شده و جابه جایی به سرخ طیف ها همه بزرگتر از نیم و کوچکتر از یک هستند. جر...

this study sought to examine the effect of cooperative game on iranian students achievements in english alphabet learning. cooperative games are games, in which players or teams work together towards a common goal without defeating someone. the methodology used in this study was experimental. the population of the study was 60 female students from the grade one in secondary school in tabriz, ir...

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

there is less published research about how teachers in efl contexts respond to students who are relatively less mature and less competent l2 writers. while writing researchers have examined various issues concerning peer and teacher response in writing-oriented classes, little research has centered on the effect of collaborative tasks particularly dictogloss on writing skills. output collaborat...