in this article the possible effects of the translation technologies on the critical thinking and translation ability of the students of the translation studies would be studied through a pre-experimental method of research. the participants of this research were thirty one iranian senior translation studies students at the age group of 20-26 who were selected based on their age, educational le...

conclusions the results illustrate that the iranian version of the aep (ir-aep) could be a reliable and valid instrument for assessing the level of inappropriate acute hospital admissions and days of care in the iranian context. results inter-rater and intra-rater reliability testing revealed an excellent level of consensus between the two nurses employing the aep in all the studied departments...

A significant amount of contribution to pragmatics research comes from cross-cultural and developmental pragmatic studies with L2 learners in focus; however, despite broad interest in such analyses, the role of lecturers has been relatively ignored. As the lectures’ perceptions/opinions of L2 learners’ e-mail requests are important, L2 learners must become familiar with their lecturers’...