the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of implicit focus on form through input flooding and the effect of noticing, explicit focus on form on linguistic accuracy. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 86 iranian pre-intermediate efl learners of one of the language institutes were chosen by means of administering ket as the homogeneity test. these learners were pretested throug...

Beside investigating the different kinds and functions of the Interpretative narrations this article attempts to study their most important functions, by offering some samples, in understanding and interpreting the verses of the Quran with emphasis on the views, principles, method and the interpretation tendency of Allameh Tabatabie. The main question of this paper is whether all the narratio...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...

the research questions were as follows: 1. is there any relationship between the students concious awareness of the form and implications of the conjuncations and their improvement in using appropriate conjunctions? 2. does students knowledge of the from and the implications of the conjunctions help them to produce more coherent writings. 3. does a comparison between english conjunctions and th...

abstract poor reading comprehension can result in failure in using references, benefiting from professional gatherings and resources, keeping up with the growing body of knowledge in the virtual world of the internet, and failing to achieve in efl programs. the purpose of the present quasi-experimental study was to explore the effects of background knowledge and previewing narrative and expos...

Taking some early steps, this material has sought to deliver a theory on Forgiveness (Afav) in the viewpoint of Holy Quran. Forgiveness is one of the most significant components of coagulation in the interpersonal communication, individual serenity and moral eminence. However, it is so essential to demarcate and rethink the scope and the limits as well as the applications of this moral virtue. ...

a problem of computer vision applications is to detect regions of interest under dif- ferent imaging conditions. the state-of-the-art maximally stable extremal regions (mser) detects affine covariant regions by applying all possible thresholds on the input image, and through three main steps including: 1) making a component tree of extremal regions’ evolution (enumeration), 2) obtaining region ...

abstract the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of using model essays on the development of writing proficiency of iranian pre-intermediate efl learners. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 55 pre- intermediate learners of parsa language institute were chosen by means of administering proficiency test. based on the results of the pretest, two matched groups, one as the expe...

Kitab and hikmah are two concepts discussed in the commentaries of the Quran. The main purpose of the present article is the analysis of the concept hikmah when it co-occurs with kitab in the holy Quran. It is currently claimed that the concept hikmah has a different meaning from the lexical and idiomatic hikmah in the Quran in cases where it co-occurs with kitab. The research method in the pre...