abstract the aim of this study was threefold: (1) to investigate the relationship between knowledge of semantic prosody and efl learners general language proficiency; (2) to examine the relationship between qualitative as well as quantitative knowledge of words, and (3) to compare the performance of efl learner on receptive and productive measures of semantic prosody. the study is based on a...

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

previous studies have aimed at testing a hypothesis but the present study is data-first research in which researcher tries to form a theory from data rather than the use of data to test a hypothesis. this study aims at exploring teachers perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of the current syllabus for college preparatory course. eight experienced teachers were selected to collect data du...

The economic crisis presents a unique opportunity to study how auditors respond to an exogenous shock to the clients' operating environment. Also, due to the economic crisis, some of auditors are under pressure from clients to cut audit fees during the crisis. In Iran, due to inflationary conditions, this issue manifests itself mainly in the form of an increase in auditing fees to a lesser exte...

طبق نظریه چرخه عمر،شرکت‌هادرمراحل مختلف چرخه عمردارای خصوصیات متفاوتی هستند که بر ریسک تجاری و عملکرد آن‌ها تأثیر می‌گذارد. از آنجایی‌که، ریسک تجاری مبنایی برای تعیین حق‌الزحمه حسابرسی است. بنابراین، هدف این پژوهش بررسی میزان حق‌الزحمه حسابرسی بر اساس مراحلچرخه عمر شرکت‌های پذیرفته شده در بورس اوراق بهادار تهراناست. بدین منظور دو فرضیه برای بررسی این موضوع تدوین و داده‌های مربوط به 81 شرکت عضو ...

nothing affects learners more than assessment, so it is important to involve them in assessment process. involvment of learners in assessment helps them to become autonoumos learners. despite this importance iranian learners specialy javanroodian ones are not activily involved in the process. hence the aim of this thesis is to invesrtigate thier ability in th eassessment process

the present study was concerned with exploring the frequency and linguistic focus of corrective feedback types given by novice and experienced female teachers working with young learners and compared it with those of elementary classes for adults. moreover, it aimed at measuring learners’ acknowledgement of teachers’ corrective feedback in the form of uptake in relation to linguistic coverage o...

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...

in the area of vocabulary teaching and learning although much research has been done, only some of it has led to effective techniques of vocabulary teaching and many language learners still have problem learning vocabulary. the urge behind this study was to investigate three methods of teaching words. the first one was teaching words in context based on a traditional method of teaching that is,...

this study gives a rough notional method to find their textual placing and valuating in the text, narrows the board of vision to mystic items and finally lists the strategies used by the translators of mathnawi to present solutions for preserving the additional values. at last, as the sum-up, strategies in comparison would be presented. it should be noted that by extending the translations from...