abstract this study aimed at investigating the effect of bilingual teaching of cognate words (persian-english) on iranian upper intermediate efl learners’ knowledge of lexical development. for this purpose,100 subjects participated in this study out of which 40 learners were selected for this study and they were assigned into two groups, control and experimental. cross-language cognates (wor...

in this thesis, a better reaction conditions for the synthesis of spirobarbiturates catalyzed by task-specific ionic liquid (2-hydroxy-n-(2-hydroxyethyl)-n,n-dimethylethanaminium formate), calcium hypochlorite ca(ocl)2 or n-bromosuccinimide (nbs) in the presence of water at room temperature by ultrasonic technique is provided. the design and synthesis of spirocycles is a challenging task becaus...

power transformers are important equipments in power systems. thus there is a large number of researches devoted of power transformers. however, there is still a demand for future investigations, especially in the field of diagnosis of transformer failures. in order to fulfill the demand, the first part reports a study case in which four main types of failures on the active part are investigate...

simplification universal as a universal feature of translation means translated texts tend to use simpler language than original texts in the same language and it can be critically investigated through common concepts: type/token ratio, lexical density, and mean sentence length. although steps have been taken to test this hypothesis in various text types in different linguistic communities, in ...

Introduction: Policy making is one of the main and fundamental issues in the management of institutions and organizations which necessitates attention to its process and components. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between policy-making and university autonomy in macro medical universities of region 3. Material & Methods: The present applied study was conducted with an i...

The purpose of this study was to design and validate a competency model for the selection and appointment of queue managers (schools) at the level of leadership and management subsystem in the Fundamental Reform Document of Education (FRDE). It is a mixed-method research using an exploratory approach. Sampling in the qualitative section was done purposefully with the technique of a network of e...

The purpose of this study was to design and validate a competency model for the selection and appointment of queue managers (schools) at the level of leadership and management subsystem in the Fundamental Reform Document of Education (FRDE). It is a mixed-method research using an exploratory approach. Sampling in the qualitative section was done purposefully with the technique of a network of e...

The aim of this study was to design and validate the competency model of the Senior managers of financial managers in the National Iranian Oil Company with a mixed approach. In the qualitative part, the researcher collected information using semi-structured in-depth field and purposeful interviews with 8 Senior Managers and Deputies of the National Oil Company, using a researcher-made questionn...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate any relationship between high school efl teachers metaphorical understandings of their role in class and their self-efficacy beliefs. teachers metaphors were elicited through two different prompts: one picturing what they believed a language teacher should be like in class, and the other demonstrating what they are actually like in class; such...

this thesis attempts to measure learning styles, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension. in order to address this issue, a quantitative study was conducted on some randomly selected intact students at ferdowsi university. these two groups were assigned as they were undergraduate (ba=91) and graduate (ma =74) students; they were all aged betwe...