abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...

abstract this study investigates the teachers’ correction of students’ spoken errors of linguistic forms in efl classes, aiming at (a) examining the relationship between the learners’ proficiency level and the provision of corrective feedback types, (b) exploring the extent to which teachers’ use of different corrective feedback types is related to the immediate types of context in which err...

different researchers in different parts of the world have investigated the strategies used to translate written works ranging from novels to classroom assignments. however, by the significant increase in the number of postgraduate students in iran in the last few years, a very common kind of translation in iran includes translating abstracts of master’s theses. in this work, the researcher hav...

this study purported to compare and contrast the use of self-mention and evidentials as two mtadiscourse features in opinion columns of persian and english newspapers. the theoretical basis of this study is the idea that metadiscourse features vary across cultural boundaries. for this purpose, 150 persian and 150 english opinion columns were collected based on three factors of topic, audience a...

This study was conducted to evaluate the genetic diversity of sugar beet half sib inbred lines (48 lines and one control cultivar) under water stress (200mm of class A evaporation pan) in field conditions in a randomized complete block design with three replicates in Khorasan Razavi Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center in 2015. In this research, traits such as root y...

The relationship between some important morphological traits with seed yield in 18 soybean genotypes inclusive three cultivars (JK, May and Cap) and 15 M4 mutant lines were investigated using randomized complete block design with four replications. Results of analysis of variance indicated that there were significant differences between genotypes in all traits except the number of branches per ...