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,...

rested on sociocultural theory (sct), this study attempted to examine the effect of written corrective feedback (wcf) followed by producing written languaging on developing writing accuracy over new tasks. to this aim, two intact iranian efl classes at the low-intermediate level were randomly assigned to two experimental groups: direct (n = 25) and indirect (n = 25). both groups wrote on a numb...

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...

the extent to which written corrective feedback on linguistic errors can play a role in helping l2 writers improve the accuracy of their writing continues to be an issue of interest to researchers and teachers since truscott (1996) mounted a case for its abolition. while there is growing empirical evidence that written corrective feedback can successfully target some types of linguistic error (...

sange siyah dam is located two kilometers down the kabod khani village. the environ of ghorrve city in kurdestan province. this is an clay core dam. in this dam instrumentation is performed in three section and consist of electrical piezometers, total pressure cells, settlement cells and so on. the main objective of instrumentation is to control the behavior of dam body and foundation, end else...

سابقه و هدف: با توجه به کاربرد وسیع آکریل دورالی (duralay)، در تهیه الگوی مستقیم از داخل کانال و نظر به مبهم بودن تاثیر همزمان گذشت زمان، ماده ضدعفونی و محیط نگهداری بر ابعاد الگوی آکریلی دورالی این تحقیق با هدف بررسی تاثیر ماده ضدعفونی کننده و محیطهای نگهداری شامل محیط آب محیط خشک بر ثبات ابعادی الگوهای post & core ساخته شده از آکریل duralay در فواصل زمانی متوالی در بخش تخصصی پروتز دانشکده دند...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of instruction through debate on male and female efl learners’ reading comprehension, to examine the differences between the performance of male and female participants on the five dimensions of cctst including analysis, evaluation, inference, deductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning, and to examine the differences between male ...

colonialism is an important factor in cultural production and many of cultural constructs all over the world. english and english language teaching are at the center of the contemporary world. postcolonial literature, the genre achebe exercised, is a kind of historical text which has become central to different debates and criticisms. in this thesis, different elements related to the colonial...