critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

the purpose of this study was the relationship between problem – solvi ability with fdi cognitive style of students.the research method was correlation method. for data analysis pearson test was used. statistical society in this research was all the students of alligoodarz city in 1391-92 year.to sampling of statiscal population was used sampling multi-stage random the size of sample selected 2...

abstract: advertisements are the most accessible type of authentic materials, and this is one reason why they are used more and more in english teaching classes. for this cause, studies in the field of advertisements are very widespread nowadays. for pun is one aspect which makes advertisements more interesting, it is used more than before in advertisements. use of puns makes an advertisement m...

One of the common doubts in commentating the verse: There is no compulsion in religion, has been considered as the problem of disagreement between primary holy war in Islam and the meaning of the verse. By the verse is meant real negation of every compulsion in Divine religion, every internal compulsion for making people to accept religion and every external compulsion in the realm of Divine re...

in this project, 4,4?-methylenebis(3-chloro-2,6-diethyl trimellitimidobenzene) as a diacid, was prepared by the reaction of trimellitic anhydride (tma) with 4,4?-methylenebis(3-chloro-2,6-diethylaniline) (mcdea). the novel poly(amide-imide) (pai) was synthesized from the reaction of 4,4?-methylenebis(3-chloro-2,6-diethyl trimellitimidobenzene) as a diacid with mcdea under green condition using ...

هدف این پایان نامه تعیین تعداد مولدهای مینیمال ایده آلها در یک حلقه (جابجایی، یکدار، موضعی و نوتری) است، هر چند تعیین دقیق تعداد مولدها در حالتهایی خاص امکان پذیر است اما در حالتهای کلی روش های موجود بدست آوردن کرانهای مختلف برای تعداد مولدها است. مرجع اصلی این پایانامه ‏‎[1]‎‏ می باشد، به علاوه از نتایج جدیدی که در مرجع ‏‎‏‎[2]‎‏ نیز آمده استفاده کرده ایم. ‏‎[1]. j. sally. numbers of generator...

toury (1978:200) believes that translation is a kind of activity which inevitably involves at least two languages and two cultural traditions. being polite while asking for something takes place differently in different cultures and languages, therefore various strategies may be applied for making requests and also translation of them in order not to disturb or threaten the face or better to sa...

this study investigates the cohesive devices used in the textbook of english for the students of psychology. the research questions and hypotheses in the present study are based on what frequency and distribution of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are. then, to answer the questions all grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading comprehension passages from 6 units of 21units th...

the purpose of this two-phase, sequential mixed methods study was to find out whether there were any decencies between male and female ma students’ theses regarding the common features of academic writing such as syntactic complexity, means of integrating cited information, and organizing arguments. i chose 10 male written theses and 15 female written theses in tefl and linguistics. in the firs...

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...