abstract following innovations in the field of elt, a new topic which has recently attracted a lot of attention is metaphor analysis. although this area of research is still in its infancy in elt, it seems that the idea can shed more light on the puzzle of english language learning and teaching. therefore, the major aim of this study is to analyze language learning and teaching in formal a...

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of podcasts as a learning and teaching tool on iranian efl learners’ motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. the study also investigated the learners’ perception towards listening to podcasts and examined whether the learners were likely to accept podcasts. out of fifty-five intermediate learners studying e...

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

the purpose of this study was the relationship between problem – solvi ability with fdi cognitive style of students.the research method was correlation method. for data analysis pearson test was used. statistical society in this research was all the students of alligoodarz city in 1391-92 year.to sampling of statiscal population was used sampling multi-stage random the size of sample selected 2...

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...

بررسی وجود و چندگانگی جوابهای معادلات دیفرانسیل به ویژه با شرایط مرزی اغلب بسی دشوار بوده و همراه با گام های ملالت آور می باشد بطوریکه همواره نیاز به پیش شرط هایی می باشد که معادلات دیفرانسیل با شرایط مرزی مورد نظر باید داشته باشد. بنابراین اثبات آنالیزی وجود و چندگانگی جوابهای مسائل مقدار مرزی غیر خطی اغلب غیر ممکن می باشد. روشهای تقریبی- تحلیلی یا روشهای عددی صرفاً برای بدست آوردن جواب موجود ...