abstract: the present study was undertaken to investigate whether 1) there is any significant correlation between iranian efl/eap learners’ l2 writing proficiency and their willingness to communicate, 2) there is any significant difference between efl and eap learners in terms of willingness to communicate, 3) there is any significant difference in wtc of iranian efl/eap learners with 1- nati...

toury (1978:200) believes that translation is a kind of activity which inevitably involves at least two languages and two cultural traditions. being polite while asking for something takes place differently in different cultures and languages, therefore various strategies may be applied for making requests and also translation of them in order not to disturb or threaten the face or better to sa...

different researchers in different parts of the world have investigated the strategies used to translate written works ranging from novels to classroom assignments. however, by the significant increase in the number of postgraduate students in iran in the last few years, a very common kind of translation in iran includes translating abstracts of master’s theses. in this work, the researcher hav...

the present study was an attempt to determine the types of motivation and levels of foreign language learning anxiety among efl students studying at azad and state universities in kermanshah and to determine the relationship between these two factors and language proficiency and gender. to this end, the foreign language learning motivation scale, by deci and ryan )1985(, were administered to 12...

Objective: The aim of this study was modelling the relations of religiousness and family emotional climate to self-efficacy for addiction withdrawal with regard to the mediating role of the meaning of life in substance-dependent women. Method: The present study was descriptive-correlational of structural equation modelling type. The statistical population consisted of all substance-dependent wo...

abstract this study attempted to investigate the strategies used to translate clichés of emotions in dubbed movies in iranian dubbing context for home video companies. the corpus of the current study was parallel and comparable in nature, consisting of five original american movies and their dubbed versions in persian, and five original persian movies which served as a touchstone for judging n...

the present study was an attempt to compare the effect of peer metalinguistic corrective feedback on elementary and intermediate efl learners speaking ability to see which level benefits more from this type of feedback. to this end, 117 female efl learners at grade 3, al-zahra high school in kermanshah, iran were non-randomly chosen. the homogeneity of the participants was attained through a pi...

Introduction: A successful society depends on coherent and successful families and it comes true when the choice of couples is made on knowledge. Marriage is a complex and delicate relationship between two human beings that plays an essential role in achieving the emotional, psychological, and physical needs of men and women; Therefore, the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of ...

This article determines influence of education of emotional intelligence components on mental health improvement and self-imagination of Arak Payam Nour University’s athlete girl students. This is survey (analytic-descriptive) research which is quasi-empirical one. It was conducted in form of pre- and post-test with control group. 24 students were catego-rized in two 12-person experimental an...

The present research has been conducted as an effort to predict emotional empathy on the basis of emotion regulation and self-control in teachers. A descriptive-correlative method was used. The statistical population consisted of teachers in the city of Sanandaj in the year 2017, 425 of whom were selected by means of stratified random sampling and asked to complete Gross and John (2003) Emotion...