teachers’ beliefs greatly influence their performance in the classroom, their choice of instructional strategies, their way of controlling the class, their dealing with the students, and their general goals and objectives. one of these beliefs is teachers’ sense of efficacy which is viewed as an important construct and has shown to be positively correlated with students’ achievement (ross, 1992...

like any other learning activity, translation is a problem solving activity which involves executing parallel cognitive processes. the ability to think about these higher processes, plan, organize, monitor and evaluate the most influential executive cognitive processes is what flavell (1975) called “metacognition” which encompasses raising awareness of mental processes as well as using effectiv...

the ability to speak two languages in the world is a remarkable achievement. there is a good reason to believe that bilingualism is the norm for the majority of people in the world because 70% of the earth’s population are supposed to be bilingual or multilingual. various investigations have shown that the native language impacts foreign word recognition, and this influence is adapted by the de...

as far as bandura’s (1977) conceptualization of the sense of self-efficacy is concerned, it is argued to be context- and even task-specific, compared to other concepts like self-esteem (brown, 2000); therefore, upon the previous research studies, related theories and definitions, and the ideas and views obtained from the interviews conducted with the scholars, the current research study aimed a...

The lack of active academic publishers in the domain of social science translation has made the private publishers override the public publishers in the quality of published translations. The atmosphere of translation criticism in the country is not in place and most of the time,publishersemploy the unskilled translators to translate the books with regard to the fame of an author or a subject a...

in one pole of the continuum of language learning, theoreticians and practitioners traditionally consider english as english as a second language or english as a foreign language. however, in the other pole of this continuum where english is thought of as the most effective tool for international communication, it is referred to as a lingua franca. those who favor an approach to english growing...

abstract since heubners (1985) pioneering study, there have been many studies on (mis) use/ non-use of articles by l2 learners from article-less and article languages. the present study investigated how persian l2 learners of english produce and interpret english definite descriptions and demonstrative descriptions. it was assumed that definite and demonstrative descriptions share the same cen...

یک عضو از خانواده pou-domain، فاکتور1 رونویسی وی‍‍‍‍ژه هیپوفیز (pou1f1) است که ترشح هورمون های پرولاکتین(prl)، هورمون رشد(gh) و زیرواحد بتا تایروتروپین(tsh?) را تنظیم می-کند. جهش ها در ژن pou1f1 ممکن است منجر به کمبود prl، gh و tsh? شود. پرولاکتین هورمونی است که ممکن است بطور مستقیم یا غیر مستقیم بر جنبه های مختلف چرخه رشد مو تاثیر بگذارد. غلظت های در گردش پرولاکتین و تغییرات فصلی آن الگوی فعال...

purpose a metabolic abnormality such as obesity is a major obstacle in the maintenance of the human health system and causes various chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, as well as various cancers. this study was designed to summarize the recent scientific knowledge regarding the anti-obesity role of curcumin (diferuloylmethane), which is isolated f...