the present study seeks to determine the effect of explicit instruction of metacognitive strategies on iranian high school students’ reading comprehension ability. it also attempts to investigate the relationship between the learners reading comprehension and metacognitive strategies. furthermore, the study investigates whether iranian efl female high school students are high, medium, or low me...

In this paper, the heat balance of an engine was investigated experimentally. The experimental work was conducted on the EF7 natural gas fueled and turbocharged engine. The main goal was to develop an empirical equation to be able to predict the heat balance of the engine at various loads and conditions. The data were collected at four different conditions, two different loads and two differ...

textbooks play a crucial role in language learning classrooms. the problem is that among the great quantity of available textbooks on the market which one is appropriate for a specific classroom and a group of learners. in order to evaluate elt textbooks, theorists and writers have offered different kinds of evaluative frameworks based on a number of principles and criteria. this study evaluate...

building on previous studies on intellectual features and learners’ grammar learning, the present study aimed at investigating whether intelligence criterion had any impact on efl learners’ english grammar learning across two intelligence levels. in the current study, the participants were divided into two experimental and control groups by administration of raven i.q. test. this led to the for...

the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between iranian efl teachers’ classroom management orientations and their teaching styles. additionally, the difference between male and female teachers’ teaching styles and classroom management orientations and their relationship with experience and age were explored. three hundred efl teachers filled in attitudes and beliefs on classro...

Desertification phenomenon is not devoted to an especial climate, although its role in arid and semi-arid areas is clearer than other regions. In this research, four criterions of the wind erosion, soil, vegetation cover and climate have been considered for evaluating desertification potential and mapping of desertification intensity using to IMDPA model in ZAHAK Sistan region. Considering to e...