this study examined the effects of collaborative strategic reading and direct instruction in persuasion on iranian high school students persuasive writing and attitudes. students in three intact classes were assigned to one of three treatment conditions: collaborative strategic reading and direct instruction in persuasion or direct instruction in persuasion or a control group. treatment effects...

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...

Background & Aims: Diabetes mellitus is associated with changes in testicular tissue. Here, the effects of co-administration of zinc and vanadium sulfate on testicular damage in diabetic animals were studied. Materials & Methods:  Moderate diabetic hyperglycemia was induced by injection of streptozotocin (STZ) 40 mg/kg, ip. Five groups of animals were selected (n=5). Group I: As no...

this research aims at answering the questions about translation problems and strategies applied by translators when translating cultural concepts. in order to address this issue, qualitative and quantitative study were conducted on two groups of subjects at imam reza international university of mashhad. these two groups were assigned as beginner and advanced translation students (10 students). ...

this study tried to explore disciplinary variations of web blurbs across soft and hard knowledge fields on the one hand, and to illustrate how academic publishers exploit interactional metadiscourse devices in move structure of their blurbs on the other.

the primary goal of the current project was to examine the effect of three different treatments, namely, models with explicit instruction, models with implicit instruction, and models alone on differences between the three groups of subjects in the use of the elements of argument structures in terms of toulmins (2003) model (i.e., claim, data, counterargument claim, counterargument data, rebutt...

The medicinal plant bitter apple belongs to Cucurbitaceae family. To study the effect of phenylalanine and tryptophan amino acids on morphological and physiological characteristics of Citrullus colocynthis L., an investigation was conducted according to a completely randomized block design with four treatments and three replications in University of Zanjan, Iran. The studied factors were consis...