since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

  University is a suitable place for research because of enough facilities and active students. Each student should has enough knowledge in research field before his or her graduation. Submission of an appreciate thesis could be a beginning for advanced research, therefore we evaluated the methodological structure of submitted theses by medical students in Iran university of medical sciences in...

abstract the purpose of this study was to find out the effect of applying the principles of group-dynamic assessment (g-da) on learning of conditional structures in english by iranian efl learners at the intermediate level, which according to the formal educational system in iran, includes students who are in their second year of studying in high schools of koohdasht city. this study was a qua...

abstract since heubners (1985) pioneering study, there have been many studies on (mis) use/ non-use of articles by l2 learners from article-less and article languages. the present study investigated how persian l2 learners of english produce and interpret english definite descriptions and demonstrative descriptions. it was assumed that definite and demonstrative descriptions share the same cen...

abstract:‎ literature is said beautiful words of poetry or prose that excites reader’s or listener’s feel. certainly, to ‎be effective, such a text should have certain characteristics. the four elements of the literature: thought, ‎imagination, emotion and style make a text to be literary and effective. emotion and imagination are ‎specific elements of literary texts, while thought and style a...

روش مطالعه : در این مطالعه مشاهده ای (observational) توصیفی-تحلیلی (descriptive-analytical) مقطعی (cross-sectional)، 96 مورد از شکایاتی که در فاصله سالهای 1383 تا 1387 در نظام پزشکی استان تهران از متخصصین چشم پزشکی به عمل آمده بود، مورد بررسی قرار گرفتند. نمونه گیری به صورت متوالی (consecutive) بود. یافته ها: نوع شکایت در 1 مورد (1 درصد) مرگ بیمار، 83 نفر (5/86 درصد) قصور از نوع بی مبالاتی و ب...

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...

today the image of a permanent skeletal space of cities affected by some forces or mechanisms is put in time with social-economic development and while imposes a new face and perspective to physical anatomy of cities, and prepares field to changes in content and social- economic structures of cities too. simultaneously with quitting villages in order to settle in cities by villagers, the phen...

this study investigates the strategies native english and persian speakers employ for expressing gratitude in different situations. the strategies of persian efl learners are also compared with english strategies in order to find the differences that may exist between these two languages. social status and size of imposition of the favor are social variables which are investigated in detail for...