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...

abstract the current study sets out 1) to investigate the strategic needs of iranian efl learners in reading literary and non-literary texts; 2) to shed some light on the differences between reading literary and non-literary texts; and 3) to specify the differences in the interaction of participants with texts while reading two literary subgenres ( i.e., short story and literary essays). to ...

abstract: advertisements are the most accessible type of authentic materials, and this is one reason why they are used more and more in english teaching classes. for this cause, studies in the field of advertisements are very widespread nowadays. for pun is one aspect which makes advertisements more interesting, it is used more than before in advertisements. use of puns makes an advertisement m...

در حالت کلی معادلات دیفرانسیل با مقادیر اولیه را نمی توان دیفرانسیل می توان جواب طیف وسیعی از مسائل کاربردی را مشخص نمود با روش های تئوری حل نمود، لذا با حل عددی معادلات یک حالت خاص از مسأله مقدار اولیه، مسأله ای به فرم: y^=f(x,y) , y(a)=?, y^ (a)=?^^ است که مشتق اول در آن ظاهر نمی شود. این معادلات طیف وسیعی از پدیده های اطراف ما را شامل می شود، مثلاً معادلاتی که دارای جواب نوسانی هستند از ...

this research aims at answering the questions about translation problems and strategies applied by translators when translating cultural concepts. in order to address this issue, qualitative and quantitative study were conducted on two groups of subjects at imam reza international university of mashhad. these two groups were assigned as beginner and advanced translation students (10 students). ...

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

as polysemy is encountered frequently in english as foreign language. fl learners’ ability to disambiguate polysemous verbs becomes critical to their comprehension in the target language. this thesis, accordingly, investigated how iranian efl learners achieved comprehension of english polysemous verbs by using three different types of cues: (1) elaborated context, (2) semantic frames, and (...

  R Shariat Moharari [1] MD H Asl-e-Ssoleimani [2] MD    Received: 3 Jan, 2007 Accepted: 6 Jan, 2007 Abstract In order to develop the capacity of adapting changing circumstances, trainee doctors need to equip themselves with skills in acquisition, appraisal, and application of new knowledge. With a history of more than 150 years, the utility of the journal club as an effective instrument for m...