Background: Specific learning disability is one of the most common disorders in school children. These children usually have problems in various areas such as attention, cognition and alexithymia. The purpose of the present research was to determine the effect of social skills training on social self- empowerment and alexithymia in students with specific learning disabilities. Method: This stud...

even though, to date, a lot of studies have been conducted on the subject of politeness theory, there are very few studies regarding the applicability of this theory to translation between english and persian which shows the reason behind conducting the present study. this study was carried out with the aim of highlighting whether there is any difference between english and persian methods of u...

abstract this study set out to compare the effect of modality of presentation (subtitled vs. auditory) in the comprehension of verbal content of documentary films among iranian efl students. to this end, (30 male 30 female) students were chosen from two schools. after their homogeneity was established, the students attended the listening sessions to watch five documentary films over t...

یکی از مسایل مهم در یادگیری زبان ، یادگیری لغت است. هدف این تحقیق ، بررسی یاد گیری شیوه های مستقیم و غیر مستقیم فراگیری لغت درفرایند شنیداری زبان است و اینکه کدامیک از آنها برای بهبود و تسهیل یادگیری واژگان زبان آموزان سطح متوسطه موثرترند.این تحقیق تفاوت بین تاثیر فراگیری مستقیم و غیر مستقیم لغت در فرایند شنیداری زبان در کوتاه مدت را بررسی می کند ، سپس تفاوت بین تاثیر یادگیری مستقیم و غیر مستقی...

efl/esl textbooks have been regarded as essential language teaching materials with which the learners spend about 70 up to 90 percent of their class time. the important role they play and their vast use make them not only influential in learning the language but also in shaping values and attitudes. put it another way, textbooks socialize learners using their contents (i.e. texts, illustrations...