James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

background: cerebral palsy (cp) describes a group of disorders regarding the development of movement and posture, which causes limitations in activity. in fact, it is attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occur during brain development in fetus or infant. cp disorders may accompany by speech, auditory, visual abnormality, seizure, learning disorder, mental retardation and etc. due to ...

Emotional Labor has important effect on jobs which contact people frequently, such as teachers, salespersons and so on. It is necessary to explore the circumstances of emotional labor about these special jobs. This study tested the impact of emotional labor on job burnout with the methods of interview and questionnaire survey, and explored the moderate effect of job commitment on the relationsh...

this study was inspired by vanpatten and uludag’s (2011) study on the transferability of training via processing instruction to output tasks and mori’s (2002) work on the development of talk-in-interaction during a group task. an interview was devised as the pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest to compare four intervention types for teaching the simple past passive: traditional intervention ...

Adel Sedra received the B.Sc. degree from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1964, and M.A.Sc. Ph.D. degrees University of Toronto, Canada, 1968 1969, respectively, all electrical engineering.

during the past several decades, neighborhoods have experienced gentrification phenomenon in a number of cities. gentrification, the process of neighborhood change that results in the replacement of lower income residents with higher income ones, has altered the character of hundreds of urban neighborhoods in many north american and european cities. in this paper we state how does gentrificatio...

female- headed house holds as one of social harmful groups in front of various problems in life among exist conflict at family. the work roles cause doual roles which are important problem for wemen. in this research, effort to use from grounded theory method and done deep interview to 25 person from female- headed house holds refer to main problem of this women. results data analysis and parad...

tv broadcasting right is one of the main sources of financial income for football clubs in the world. however, this right has not been legalized in iran yet and has caused many serious problems for iranian football clubs. the aim of this study was to investigate legal gaps and obstacles and to provide strategies to improve the relationships between football clubs and islamic republic of iran br...

An emerging body of literature in sociology has demonstrated that diagnosis is a useful focal point for understanding the social dimensions of health and illness. This article contributes to this work by drawing attention to the relationship between diagnostic spaces and the way in which clinicians use their own bodies during the diagnostic process. As a case study, we draw upon fieldwork condu...