Iranian vernacular architecture has a wide geographical scope and sustainability principles that need more than ever to be analyzed, reread and criticized scientifically and fairly. A reading that is the basis for improving the processes and methods of preserving these properties, the intervention method, achieving the cultural roots and architectural typology of Iran. As much influenced by nat...

this study investigated the effects of planning on second-language written production with regard to task type. the participants were 75 iranian learners of english as a foreign language attending a private foreign language institution. they were asked to complete two different types of writing tasks (expository writing task and argumentative writing task) in different planned conditions (indiv...

The present paper is extracted from a purposeful research aiming at pondering on the recondite meaning of persistence in Iranian architecture during Islamic era and comparing it to the concept of sustainability and contemporary sustainable architecture. It seems that the literature is poor in terms of causes and factors of persistence in Iranian architecture. The limited literature in this area...

this study compared the different effects of form-focused guided planning vs. meaning-focused guided planning on iranian pre-intermediate students’ task performance. the study lasted for three weeks and concentrated on eight english structures. forty five pre-intermediate iranian students were randomly assigned to three groups of guided planning focus-on-form group (gpfg), guided planning focus...

in this study, the relationship between teachers’ creative and critical thinking skills and their reflectivity in teaching was investigated. to this end, three questions were raised. these questions were intended to determine whether there was a significant relationship between teachers’ creative thinking skills and their reflectivity in teaching; whether there was a significant relationship be...

abstract the present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of critical thinking on writing ability of 60 iranian intermediate efl learners studying at chenar language institute in khuzestan, iran. to this end, the participants of the study were selected based on their performance in an pet test, a cornell critical thinking test form x and a pre-test of writing. the participants un...

معماری اسامی ایران تداوم طبیعی معماری دوره ساسانی است و شناخت و مطالعه این معماری می تواند راه گشای ما در شناخت معماری دوره اسامی و جنب ههای مختلف آن باشد. متأسفانه علی رغم این مهم معماری این دوره به طور شایسته و جامع شناسایی و مطالعه نشده و ابهامات اساسی در خصوص سیر تحول و تکامل این معماری، تاریخ گذاری بناهای بر جای مانده، گون هشناسی، عناصر و اجزا، تکنیک ها، شیوه های معماری و موارد دیگر وجود د...