this study attempted to explore if teaching english collocations through two different modes of awareness-raising and input flooding has any possible differential effect on immediate retention as well as retention in a delayed assessment. it also compared the possible differential effect of teaching english collocations implicitly and explicitly on actively using the items in writing. m...

This study tries to examine the effect of monitoring mechanism of Corporate Governance to decreasing the Earning Management Intensity. Intensity of earning management behavior is described on the basis of the 'threshold model' through bringing up the reported earnings to thresholds. It consists beating the benchmark (thresholds) and not doing so. Our empirical tests are conducted by regressio...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of task-based instruction of vocabulary on the receptive and oral productive acquisition of english vocabulary and compare the results with those obtained from the traditional method. the method and procedure applied in this study was as follows: after the implementation of opt, a group of sixty female students were chosen. the stu...

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

Beam-to-column connections have been found to be of great significance in influencing structural behavior at ambient and elevated temperatures. Observations from full-scale fire tests and damaged structures confirm that connections have a considerable effect on the stability time of structural components in fire. Due to the high cost of elevated temperature tests, adequate experimental data abo...