abstract the current study set out to address the issue as to whether the implementation of portfolio assessment would give rise to iranian pre-intermediate efl learner autonomy. participants comprised 60 female in pre-intermediate level within the age range of 16-28.they were selected from among 90 language learners based on their scores on language proficiency test -key english test. then, t...

throughout this dissertation r is a commutative ring with identity and m is a unitary r-module. in this dissertation we investigate submodules of multiplication , prufer and dedekind modules. we also stat the equivalent conditions for which is ring , wher l is a submodule of afaithful multiplication prufer module. we introduce the concept of integrally closed modules and show that faithful mu...

in the first part of this thesis we explored wetting and its dynamics for small droplets. first, we showed how a simple feature of water droplets on a surface, i.e. laplace pressure, can be exploited to build a micropump. we investigated capillary pumping in microchannels both experimentally and numerically. putting two droplets of different sizes at the in/outlet of a microchannel, will ge...

phatic communion is a cultural concept which differs across cultures. according to hofstede (2001), the u.s. tends to have individualistic culture; however, asian countries tend to have collectivistic cultures. these cultures view phatic communion differently. in individualistic cultures like u.s., phatic communion reflects speakers’ socio-cultural relationships in conversations. to see whether...

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

در این پایان نامه مباحثی در مورد نیم گروه های معکوس توپولوژیکی اولیه (مطلقا) h-بسته و فشرده (شمارایی) بدست می آوریم و ساختار نیم گروه های معکوس توپولوژی فشرده شمارایی و نیم گروه های معکوس توپولوژی همنهشت-آزاد را توصیف می کنیم و نشان می دهیم که نیم گروه دو دوری نمی تواند در نیم گروه معکوس توپولوژی فشرده شمارایی نشانده شود. we present some discussions about compact (countably) and (absolutely) h...

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

peace and national security protection and ironic solving of international conflicts become the preliminary foundation of the united nations charter and had been considered as the main responsibilities of the security council, after world war ii and the establishment of united nations organization. therefore, the security council enables to analyze every kind of conflicts and challenges which ...