the present research was conducted to accomplish two purposes. firstly, it aimed to explore and describe schematic structure or what halliday and hassan (1989, p.64) have called “generic structure potential” (gsp) of american english, iranian persian and iranian english newspaper editorials within systemic functional linguistics. secondly, a quantitative cross-comparison was made to investigate...

abstract the present study was conducted to examine the effect of proficiency on students interaction while carrying out the grammar-based task(s) in collaboration. in particular, the study examines whether the level of proficiency affects the learners’ focus of attention to grammatical and lexical features. the study takes a further step and examines whether there is any difference in the use...

This research aims to identify the facilitating factors of learning transfer in NIGC, using a mixed research method. In the qualitative phase, 16 experts of NIGC and university faculty members were selected as the research sample. In the qualitative phase, survey research method was applied and a sample of 376 subjects was selected based on Cochran formula. In order to analyze the qualitative d...

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the purpose of this study was to investigate how english language teachers in mashhad who teach students in the pre-university cycle perceived the impact of the efltee on their teaching. the target population was nearly all pre-university english language teachers in seven districts of mashhad in the scholastic year 2008/2009. a survey questionnaire which consisted of (36) likert type items, wa...

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

In the organizational studies, the measurement of organizational learning capabilities has become an increasingly important area. There are several models in literature that have been generated by statistical data from manufacturing firms. In this paper we have used a structural equation model for measurement of organizational learning in hospitals as services firms. In our model, there are fou...

Purpose of the study: This study aimed to investigate the effect of prior learning experienes on later learning(The role of previous experience in the transfer of learning) by comparing Maze learning speed in mice with and without Maze experiences. Methodology: The research project used an experimental design (post-test design with a control group). The study consisted of a sample of 14 rats...