this study investigated the amount of incidental vocabulary learning through comprehension-focused reading of short stories and explicit instruction to this goal.  forty male high school students were selected randomly, and divided into two groups of twenty.  one group of these students was given five 400-word-level short stories to read with the purpose of comprehension, and the students in th...

afzalodin badil khaghani shervani and nezami ganjavi are two major stylist poets who had profound influences on later poets. most of the khaghani’s poems are lucid and uncomplicated; but many ordinary people, and sometimes some of educated ones find it hard to understand some of his ballades because of different linguistic combinations and scientific terms he used in them. although, what makes ...

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in this study, individual moral virtues were surveyed in surah al-qasas. one can infer very important points in the individual moral dimension from the story of moses (as) and others discussed in the surah. from the moralities inferred from acts of moses one can point to such good virtues like sincerity, gratitude, courage, hope and pray. from the moral virtues of others involved in the story o...

story has long been exploited to transfer human culture and concepts. it is the most consistent verbal form to the human mind. therefore, its audience spectrum is more widespread and its influence power is higher. though the qur'an's main language is the language of religion and spiritual guidance, it exploits the storytelling method in its complete form to disseminate its message.  u...

In this article, to study the effect of pulse-type near-fault earthquakes on the seismic demands of steel moment frames, 15-story 2D-frame was analyzed under the influence of 20 near-fields with forward directivity effect and 2 far-field records. The relationship between Effective Cyclic Energy, ECE and displacement demands, velocity and hysteretic curve of SDOF systems in two near- and far-fau...

lover’s person's life, often the source of the narrators and transmitters. for this reason, love stories in literature people of different have occupied a large space. the stories have many similarities in structure. layla and majnun story is the most famous and most ancient arabic tales has a major influence in the development of persian literature. iranian literary love stories and the s...

The present research tries to show how race, class, and gender and intersectionality in general, have their decisive impact on the black- American women; and how Alice Walker as a womanist, in her selected short stories, tries to show that black women in the U.S. suffer two-fold acts of oppression and discrimination, i.e. male violence affects all women in social life, irrespective of age or so...

Most popular models of narratives and narrative analyses have been drawn on native stories, yet EFL learners’ narratives have not received due narrative analysis. The present study then aims at scrutinizing the structure of personal English stories as told by EFL learners. To this aim, three hundred narratives were collected through classroom discussions and interviews. Qualitative analysis met...