abstract the present study was conducted in order to investigate the impact of an integrated model of form-focused and task-based instruction on iranian efl learners vocabulary learning and retention.it also aimed to detect efl learners attitude towards the implementation of form-focused task-based vocabulary instruction in the classroom. in order to address the purposes of this study, a sampl...

this study was intended to analyze the listening tapescripts of the elementary and pre-intermediate levels of total english textbooks from the pragmatic dimension of language functions and speech acts in order to see whether the listening tasks are pragmatically informative or not. for this purpose, 8 conversations from the two books were selected randomly, and then, the two pragmatic models of...

this study was designed and conducted to find out if there is any significant relationship between iranian efl learners preferance for one of the three degrees of obtrusiveness in foreign language instruction (focus on form, forms and meaning) and their preferred experiential learing style. to collect the data two questionnaires were used. the first one on the degree of obtrusiveness and the se...

In a pot experiment, the effect of soybeans, mung beans and beans on the corn and sunflowers in a cadmium contaminated soil was studied in a completely randomized design with three replications. The treatments consisted of intercropping of corn and mung bean corn and beans, corn and soybean, sunflower and mung bean, sunflower and beans, sunflower and soybean monoculture of corn, and monoculture...

     In order to identify the most important characteristics and affecting on grain yield in the first year (2012) of 10 maternal lines were crossed with male parents MO17. In the second year (2013) 11 parental lines and 10 F1 hybrids were studied in a randomized complete block design with three replications at Mahidasht research station of Kermanshah. Measured traits such as stem diameter, pla...

in fact, this study focused on the following questions: 1. is there any difference between the effect of functional/notional approach and the structural approaches to language teaching on the proficiency test of efl learners? 2. can a rather innovative language test referred to as "functional test" ge devised so so to measure the proficiency test of efl learners, and thus be as much reliable an...