to explore the idea the investingation proposed, aimed at finding whether the performances of the population of iranians students studying english in an efl context are consistent in l1 and l2 writing taks and whether there is a cross-linguistic transfer in this respect. in this regard the subjects were instructed to write four compositions-two in english and two in farsi-which consisted of an ...

this study explored reading strategy use of tefl ma students when they read academic research articles in english. the purpose of this study was to investigate how this group of readers typically approaches reading academic research articles related to their field of study, and also what they do in reading such research articles. the aim of the present study was bilateral. first, the researcher...

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

the aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between histopathological lesions and tissue enzymes in chickens affected by marek's disease.five apparently healthy chickens(as control group)and 25 chickens affected by marek's disease were selected. after consideration of history and gross lesions, tissue samples were collected from kidney, liver, heart, ovary, pectoral muscl...

In order to evaluate morphological and physiological responses of sorghum (Pegah ‎cultivar) to salt stress (0, 5, 10 and 15 dS/m) and different salicylic acid (SA) levels ‎‎(0, 0.75 and 1.5 mM), an experiment was carried out in research green house of ‎college of Agriculture Shiraz University during 2012 using a factorial as randomized ‎complete block design with four replications. The results ...

Nitric oxide (NO) has signaling property in plants, therefore the effect of nitroprusside (SNP) as an NO producing agent on viability in the cell culture, lipid peroxidation and activity of superoxide dismutase, catalase and peroxidase in the callus of Catharantus roseus was investigated. Cell suspension was prepared from callus of Catharantus roseus, and the cells were treated with 0, 10, 50, ...