this thesis seeks to present a critical reading of virginia woolf’s mrs. dalloway and michael cunningham’s the hours in terms of an intertextual approach, concentrating on dialogic imagination, negativity, transposition and allusion. this study attempts to evaluate cunninghams perception of woolfs life and work by adopting kristevas conception of intertextuality and her consideration of the hou...

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Moral courage is the ability to overcome fear and performing the right action based on moral beliefs despite the potential danger. Nurses, as moral agents, need moral courage to properly manage moral problems and make a professional commitment to patients. Therefore, the above study was conducted to investigate the moral courage of nurses and related factors. In this descriptive cross-sectional...

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...

  Background and Objectives: Healthcare organizations including hospitals play critical roles in providing quality care to communities. In doing so, any abuse or neglected behavior by hospital staff will cause irreparable damages to the patients. This study aimd to investigate the employees’ workplace deviant behavior in Imam - Ali Hospital in Zahedan.   Materials and Methods : This study was a...

The Prophet and Imam`s communications with their opponents include valuable educational and ethical points for educators to such an extent that in some cases the opponents have accepted Islam. This paper, studying Imam Ali`s (a) practical manner of meeting opponents in one hand and in other, analyzing his speeches in the field, has discovered his most effective educational principles and techni...