abstract: the present study is an attempt to find out cultural exophoric references in iranian high-school elt textbooks and touch stone series to compare the frequency of occurrence of such references in these books. the purpose is to find out which of the series of the books under investigation impose a greater referential burden on efl learners as far as their reading comprehension of the ...

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...

this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of subtitling on vocabulary learning among iranian intermediate students. to find the homogeneity of the groups, tofel test was administered to student in kish mehr institute in garmsar. after analyzing the data, 60 participants (female students) who scored within the range of one standard deviation above and below the mean, were selected as h...

    Background & Aims: According to social cognitive processing perspective, there are three identity styles: diffuse-avoidant, information-oriented and normative styles. Identity diffusion is one of the essential diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder. The current study was aimed to explore the possibility that identity styles are also related to borderline personality in non-...

rivers and runoff have always been of interest to human beings. in order to make use of the proper water resources, human societies, industrial and agricultural centers, etc. have usually been established near rivers. as the time goes on, these societies developed, and therefore water resources were extracted more and more. consequently, conditions of water quality of the rivers experienced rap...

Anthropology and explained all aspects of human identity, his life (especially education) includes items, We picked up the man and woman has the general meaning and special features that sets different aspects of his or her life (social, political, economic, educational and ...) gives the influenced.According to the study of human identity (female) seems to be necessary. What we come to the Kor...