abstract this study aimed at investigating the translation of interjections from english into persian in dubbing. to carry out this study the expressive secondary interjections found in the film four weddings and a funeral and their equivalent in persian dubbed version were analyzed through the strategies proposed by cuenca. the descriptive analysis of the corpus showed that (strategy b) i.e...

Mineral composition and in vitro solubility rates for seven different Calcium (Ca) sources, and their feeding effects on performance and digestibility of calcium and phosphorous in broiler chickens were assessed. The experiment used a 6 × 2 factorial arrangement with 12 diets formulated to contain of 6 Ca sources and 2 levels of particle size (<0.05mm and > 1.0-2.0 mm) and one diet as a control...

previous studies have aimed at testing a hypothesis but the present study is data-first research in which researcher tries to form a theory from data rather than the use of data to test a hypothesis. this study aims at exploring teachers perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of the current syllabus for college preparatory course. eight experienced teachers were selected to collect data du...

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...

dynamic assessment according to vygotskys sociocultural theory, states that instruction and assessment are interrelated. using static forms of assessment with second and foreign language students could do more harm than good. many teachers neglect to take account of the complexity involved in learning a second or foreign language and often wonder why learning of a language take so long. thi...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of task-based instruction of vocabulary on the receptive and oral productive acquisition of english vocabulary and compare the results with those obtained from the traditional method. the method and procedure applied in this study was as follows: after the implementation of opt, a group of sixty female students were chosen. the stu...

In selection index procedure, phenotype and genetic (co)variance matrices of traits are used for calculating different genetic parameters like index coefficients, index variance, genetic gain in selection goal and selection accuracy. Sometimes, it is possible that these matrices become inconsistent or they are not positive, nor definite. In the current study, for investigation of the effect of ...