the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment as a process-oriented assessment mechanism on iranian efl students’ english writing and its subskills of focus, elaboration, organization, conventions, and vocabulary. out of ninety juniors majoring in english literature and translation at the university of isfahan, sixty one of them who were at the same level of writing...

طی سال های 1391-1390 یک بررسی جهت شناسایی دشمنان طبیعی کنه های اریوفید در استان گیلان انجام شد. طی این بررسی در مجموع، 38 گونه از کنه ها و حشرات شکارگر مرتبط با کنه های اریوفید جمع آوری و شناسایی شدند. از بین گونه های شناسایی شده 25 گونه برای اولین بار در ارتباط با کنه های اریوفید از ایران گزارش می شود که با علامت ستاره (*) نمایش داده می شوند. اسامی گونه های جمع آوری شده به تفکیک خانواده به شرح...

Empowering citizens, recently, takes a pivotal role in urban management participation. Therefore, the current research aims at investigating into the relationship empowering citizens and participation in managing cities and, also, offering methods for empowering citizens, encouraging them to more cooperate and to actively participate in managing cities. The research is applied, purpose-wise, an...

one very decisive factor in students’ academic destiny is the result they get at final term examinations. because of its importance, both students and teachers are curiously anxious about them. as normally it is the case, these final term tests are prepared hurriedly in short time by teachers which result in students’ dissatisfaction, complaining on how the test was different from their expecta...