this study was conducted to investigate the effect of favorite-text on iranian intermediate efl learners’ vocabulary development. sixty learners from nour-al-mahdi english institute participated in the present study. having been homogenized by oxford placement test (opt), they were randomly assigned into two groups of 30, control and experimental. then both groups sat for a pre-test which was a...

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

saluk mount is selected for devonian biostratigraphy. this area located at southwest of bojnurd. in this study three sections are selected and two sections, chahar-borj and tabar sections with a thickness of 650 m, which consist mainly of calcareous sediments was studied in detailed but third section, qelli section, with a thickness of about 450m which consist mainly of sandstone and evaporates...

  Estimation of genetic variation is very important in breeding programs and existing of high genetic variation lead to increase the response to selection. The objective of this study was to investigate genetic variation for agronomic traits and yield components in 20 entries of sesame including 15 breeding lines and 5 local populations. The genotypes were evaluated in a randomized complete blo...

In order to study the relationship between morphological and agronomic characteristics like grain yield in barley, and to obtain better knowledge of the effective attributes on barley, an experiment was conducted at the Agricultural Research Station of Ghachsaran in randomized complete block design with two replications on 18 barley lines. Results showed that some characteristics such as days t...

To determine the most suitable sowing date on yield and fruit characteristics of greenhouse tomato, this research was carried out in Larestan region of Fars province in Iran in 2010. The experimental factors included three sowing dates (06 September, 20 September and 04 October) and four greenhouse tomato cultivars (Feroun, Chelbas, Ergon and Uksel) were arranged as factorial in randomized comp...

foreign policy takes root from complicated matters. however, this issue may be more truth about armenia. although the new government of armenia is less than 20 years, people of this territory are the first ones who officially accepted christianity. in very past times, these people were a part of great emperors like iran, rome, and byzantium.armenia is regarded as a nation with a privileged hist...

a simple, sensitive and selective method for solvent extraction and spectrophotemetric determination of lanthanum (ii) europium (iii), and cerium (iii) is described , the rare earth metals are extracted into chloroform solution of n-phenylbenzohydroxamic acid (pbha) at ph 9-10 various parameters are studied to optimize the extraction conditions. the molar absorptivity is found to increase from ...