abstract i the purpose of this study was to launch a thorough investigation concerning the possibility of differing orientations to the writing proficiency construct by native and non-native english speaking teacher raters. it mainly revolved around the international english language testing system (ielts) that is widely administered and employed as a measure of general proficiency in englis...

uncertainty in the financial market will be driven by underlying brownian motions, while the assets are assumed to be general stochastic processes adapted to the filtration of the brownian motions. the goal of this study is to calculate the accumulated wealth in order to optimize the expected terminal value using a suitable utility function. this thesis introduced the lim-wong’s benchmark fun...

this research is a study on indicators of listening instruction in iranian english as a foreign language (efl) curriculum at guidance school and high school educational levels. this thesis aims at determining: a) the indicators of listening instruction at guidance school and high school efl curriculum. b) the indicators of listening instruction in irans guidance school and high school efl curri...

to teach english adequately, qualified teachers are needed. unfortunately, there are still teachers who are teaching english without an academic degree in tefl. it is necessary for teachers to have a major in english to have subject knowledge, but it is not sufficient. teachers need to have an understanding of the social, cultural, moral, ethical, and pedagogical issues of education and practic...

Extended Abstract Introduction: The notion of the traditional family (the man working outside the home and the housewife working indoors) is fading away, so that there are families where both men and women are working as full-time employees (Musavi, Samavatyan, & Nouri, 2018). The lifestyle of a dual-career couple refers to a situation in which the couple plays different roles, with the couple...

Extended Abstract Introduction: The notion of the traditional family (the man working outside the home and the housewife working indoors) is fading away, so that there are families where both men and women are working as full-time employees (Musavi, Samavatyan, & Nouri, 2018). The lifestyle of a dual-career couple refers to a situation in which the couple plays different roles, with the couple...

Education in every country is an investment for next generation, whose purpose is human resources development. In this way, institutional and organizational growth and development is depend on promotion of education, insight and human resource skills. Hence, the main purpose of this research is the gap analysis of general and specialized skills of financial and urban economy experts in Tehran m...

the purpose of this study was to investigate how english language teachers in mashhad who teach students in the pre-university cycle perceived the impact of the efltee on their teaching. the target population was nearly all pre-university english language teachers in seven districts of mashhad in the scholastic year 2008/2009. a survey questionnaire which consisted of (36) likert type items, wa...