the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...

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...

Economic infrastructure plays an important role in the economic growth of developing countries. An increase in the informal sector of the economy will lead to lower tax bases, less production of basic public infrastructure and public services, and ultimately lower economic growth. As a developing country in need of economic growth, Iran is currently embroiled in sanctions in various dimensions,...

Due to the reduction of natural gas production capacity, the need to diversify the power generation resources and the approvals of the High Energy Council, the need to increase the share of renewable energy, especially photovoltaic systems, in electricity generation in the coming years is essential. The most important task of policy makers in this field is to formulate and implement a business ...

Due to the reduction of natural gas production capacity, the need to diversify the power generation resources and the approvals of the High Energy Council, the need to increase the share of renewable energy, especially photovoltaic systems, in electricity generation in the coming years is essential. The most important task of policy makers in this field is to formulate and implement a business ...

the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between motivation and test preparation strategies (tpss) used by iranian pre-university students in their preparation period for the university entrance exam (uee). due to the importance of uee in iran, this study also attempted to show its impact on these two important variables. to this end, 100 pre-university students in an iranian p...

the present study aimed to investigate representation of discourse markers and metadiscourse markers in conversations and readings of general elt coursebook series used in the language centers of iran. to this aim, four elt coursebooks popularly taught in language centers of this country were analyzed based on fung and carter’s (2007) framework regarding discourse markers and hyland’s (2005) fr...