the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between fear of negative evaluation (fne) and communication strategies (css) among iranian efl learners. it was aimed to examine the differences in the use of communication strategies between speakers with high or low degree of fear of negative evaluation. the current study was a case study consisting of 10 english learners at...

abstract this study aimed at analyzing a corpus of emails gathered from iranian students studying in england. the corpus contained 996 emails that were investigated by employing the framework of chen (2006) to find common patterns in the discourse of these emails. another aim of the study was to find how two request acts (want statements and query preparatory) were used in the emails. the...

اصلاح و احیاء مراتع تحت تأثیر شوری و قلیائیت، به‌دلیل شرایط خاص حاکم بر این گونه اکوسیستم‌ها، در اولویت کاری مسئولان اجرایی کشور قرار گرفته است. قدم اول در این امر شناسایی گونه‌های گیاهی مناسب با تأکید بر گونه‌های بومی، برای این مناطق می‌باشد، به‌طوری که ضمن استقرار مناسب، استعداد رشد و تولید را در شرایط عرصه مورد نظر داشته باشند؛ بنابراین در این تحقیق سازگاری چهار گونه گیاهی در قالب طرح بلوک‌ه...

abstract this study evaluates the iranian pre-university english textbook in terms of needs, objectives, content, and methodology. the study was designed on the qualitative- quantitative survey basis using interviews and questionnaires, a researcher-made textbook evaluation checklist and a needs analysis questionnaire. the textbook evaluation questionnaire was used in this study to elicit the ...

This paper sought to evaluate cultivation social and economic of Atriplex lentifomis in Golestan rangelands (case study: Chapar Quymeh and Baharmeydan). the present research is conducted in a survey, descriptive and explanatory manner (hypothesis testing) in which field and library researches were used. research population is a number of ranchers in plan region of Chapar Quymeh (93 people) and ...

the present study was concerned with exploring the frequency and linguistic focus of corrective feedback types given by novice and experienced female teachers working with young learners and compared it with those of elementary classes for adults. moreover, it aimed at measuring learners’ acknowledgement of teachers’ corrective feedback in the form of uptake in relation to linguistic coverage o...

there has been a gradual shift of focus from the study of rule systems, which have increasingly been regarded as impoverished, … to the study of systems of principles, which appear to occupy a much more central position in determining the character and variety of possible human languages. there is a set of absolute universals, notions and principles existing in ug which do not vary from one ...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...

during the process of reading, sometimes learners use ineffective and inefficient strategies and some factors may influence their use of strategies. perhaps critical thinking is one of these factors. this study aims to identify those categories of reading strategies that are mostly used by iranian efl learners and to see if there is any significant relationship between the critical thinking abi...