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...

if the precise implementation of the principle of proportion and:balance between the violation and the penalty as well as the other dimensions could be considered as a stick yard for the imptementation of justice any lack of preciseness in carrying out such principle would not indeed be much too far from injustice . naturally ,if it would be imagined that the objective of balance between...

this study examines the effetivenss of task-based activities in helping students learn english language structures for a better communication. initially, a michigan test was administered to the two groups of 52 students majoring in english at the allameh ghotb -e- ravandi university to ensure their homogeneity. the students scores on the grammar part of this test were also regarded as their pre...

‘romanticism’ and ‘romantic’ are among the most controversial terms in literature. most readers, when encountering these words, would think of the well-known period of romanticism of the first three decades of the nineteenth century and the great six english poets known as ‘the big six’ of this period. however, romanticism does not belong to certain artists in a special period; one may seek ele...

Hololeucocratic granitoids of Alvand main granitoids crops out as veins with low thickness. They are scattered in the south and west of Hamadan with latitudes of 34° 30´- 35°00´ N and longitudes of 48°00´- 48° 45´ E. This granitoids, based on petrological studies, are in the ranges of leucotonalite, leucogranodiorite and leucoquartz- monzodiorite. The investigation, based on the grain size, sho...

nowadays,tourism industry considered as one of the main sources of income of a country.unfortunately and despite of owning plenty of cultural historical and natural attractions, iran has not reached to a proper position in this field. besides, the historical cities of a country are considered as the income resource and national wealth of it. qazvin with a rich cultural precedent, have suitable ...

Granitoid bodis of Kuhmish are located about 30 km south of Sabzevar city. In terms of tectonic classification, Kuhmish granite was considered to be part of Sabzevar zone. Conglomerate, tuff, sandstones of Paleogene age and tuff units, radiolarites, andesite and diorite with UpperCretaceous age form the main litological units of the study area. Granitoid bodies involves aacidic part with combin...

wireless sensor networks (wsns) are one of the most interesting consequences of innovations in different areas of technology including wireless and mobile communications, networking, and sensor design. these networks are considered as a class of wireless networks which are constructed by a set of sensors. a large number of applications have been proposed for wsns. besides having numerous applic...

The study area is located in North-East of Lut block, and in Basiran Geological Quadrangle Map (1:100000).Tertiary intrusive-subvolcanic rocks intruded Paleocene limestone and formed skarn and Iron mineralization. Petographic studies show that rocks are Hbl-diorite porphyry, Hbl-qtz- diorite porphyry, Px-­ diorite porphyry, Hbl-px- diorite porphyry, Hbl-diorite and Bt-diorite. These rocks are s...

hedging is a multi-purpose rhetorical strategy which is usually used in scientific arguments to secure ratification of claims, reduce the risk of negation, avoid conflict, manage disagreement and leave room for the audience to assess presented information. hedges are frequently used in research articles to mitigate the findings of research endeavors. the present research aims to investigate the...