most specialists in the field of foreign language teachingconsiderreading skill as an interactive process between the reader’s prior knowledge and the text.accordingly, the activation of prior knowledge for an effective comprehension is very important. it is generally agreed that the pre-reading phase is the stage where this type of interaction and activation may be enhanced throughcertain stra...

the primary goal of the current project was to examine the effect of three different treatments, namely, models with explicit instruction, models with implicit instruction, and models alone on differences between the three groups of subjects in the use of the elements of argument structures in terms of toulmins (2003) model (i.e., claim, data, counterargument claim, counterargument data, rebutt...

  This study was carried out to investigate the effects of different levels of cinnamon powder (CNP), with antibiotic (Virginiamycin) and probiotic (Primalac) on performance and carcass characteristics in broiler chicks for 42 days using a completely randomized design. A total of 384 day-old male broiler chicks (Ross 308) were randomly assigned to 8 treatments , 4 replicates and 12 chicks per r...

the present research was conducted to explore the effect of employing two language teaching approaches, i.e. schema-based instruction (sbi) and translation-based instruction (tbi), on vocabulary knowledge, structure and reading comprehension ability of forty one female students learning english in grade one senior high school in rivash, kuhsorkh, iran. while sbi focuses on schemata, i.e. words ...

In this study, the control method of greater wax moth using male sterilization technique with gamma ray and chemical control methods were examined and compared. In order to determine the safe and effective dosage of gamma-ray to sterilize male pupae of the greater wax moth, an experiment was conducted in a complete randomized design with 5 treatments and 3 replicates with 50 male pupae in each ...

  This experiment was conducted in order to investigate the effect of black pepper, garlic and turmeric powders on performance and antibody titer against Newcastle virus of broiler chickens using 448 Cobb 500 one day broiler chickens including male and female with 8 treatments in a factorial arrangement (2×2×2). Experimental treatments consisted of T1 (as control), T2 (black pepper powder), T3 ...