the present study seeks to determine the effect of explicit instruction of metacognitive strategies on iranian high school students’ reading comprehension ability. it also attempts to investigate the relationship between the learners reading comprehension and metacognitive strategies. furthermore, the study investigates whether iranian efl female high school students are high, medium, or low me...

Warqa – Golshah is the first illustrated story that ever has been written in the fourth and first half of the fifth century. This story is a collection that embodies a mixture of love and epic. First Manichaean sources that researchers reached in East Central Asian region is Turfan paintings. Turfan Manichaean paintings can be seen in two distinct styles:  1. Asian style painting in ...

The attack of the Seljuk Turks affected Iranian society and economy and caused an economic downturn of the society for some decades. Nizam al-Mulk Tusi (408-485 AH) was one of the Iranian bureaucrats during the Seljuk period who had valuable experiences of the economic and peasant traditions of Iran and by writing Siyar al-mulûk took an active approach and action in both the theoretical and pra...