abstract a fundamental study of “historio-graphic metafiction” and “literary genres”, as introduced in “new historical philosophy”, and tracing them in the works of julian barnes having studied the two novels, the porcupine and arthur & george, by julian barnes, the researcher has applied linda hutcheon’s historio-graphic metafictional theories to them. the thesis is divided into five cha...

Unlike in the past, people are always under leadership of government and one of the most frequent areas of state intervention based on the responsibility of modern governments in the light of human right and dignity is the public health issue. In Iran, a large part of government supervision in the field of public health is exercised by the Commission on the subject of Article 20 of the Code rel...

Administrative litigation is one of the most important issues of administrative law. The purpose of distinguishing between different types of administrative litigations is to explain the judicial procedures relating to each other. According to one of the most important classifications, proposed by Edouard Laferrière in the late nineteenth century and despite criticisms has retained its importan...

testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...

the present study was an attempt to compare the effect of peer metalinguistic corrective feedback on elementary and intermediate efl learners speaking ability to see which level benefits more from this type of feedback. to this end, 117 female efl learners at grade 3, al-zahra high school in kermanshah, iran were non-randomly chosen. the homogeneity of the participants was attained through a pi...