the main purpose of this study was to investigate any relationship between high school efl teachers metaphorical understandings of their role in class and their self-efficacy beliefs. teachers metaphors were elicited through two different prompts: one picturing what they believed a language teacher should be like in class, and the other demonstrating what they are actually like in class; such...

to explore the idea the investingation proposed, aimed at finding whether the performances of the population of iranians students studying english in an efl context are consistent in l1 and l2 writing taks and whether there is a cross-linguistic transfer in this respect. in this regard the subjects were instructed to write four compositions-two in english and two in farsi-which consisted of an ...

abstract this study aimed at investigating the effect of bilingual teaching of cognate words (persian-english) on iranian upper intermediate efl learners’ knowledge of lexical development. for this purpose,100 subjects participated in this study out of which 40 learners were selected for this study and they were assigned into two groups, control and experimental. cross-language cognates (wor...

august wilson is undoubtedly one of the rare black playwrights whose works have attracted streams of attention and worldwide audience. the present study aims at analyzing fences and piano lesson which are two of the most successful plays in his pittsburgh cycle from the perspective of michel foucault’s theories and ideas. studying these two plays from foucault’s perspective opens new windows in...

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

we describe here a suitable approach for the synthesis of n-unsubstituted monocyclic b-lactams under mild reaction conditions by the annelation of imines with substituted acetylchlorides. in this method the reaily available phtalimidoacetyl chloride were allowed to react with - dibenzylideneiminotoluene (hydrobenzamide) in the presence of an equimolar amount of triethylamine in refluxing toluen...

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...

هدف این پایان نامه تعیین تعداد مولدهای مینیمال ایده آلها در یک حلقه (جابجایی، یکدار، موضعی و نوتری) است، هر چند تعیین دقیق تعداد مولدها در حالتهایی خاص امکان پذیر است اما در حالتهای کلی روش های موجود بدست آوردن کرانهای مختلف برای تعداد مولدها است. مرجع اصلی این پایانامه ‏‎[1]‎‏ می باشد، به علاوه از نتایج جدیدی که در مرجع ‏‎‏‎[2]‎‏ نیز آمده استفاده کرده ایم. ‏‎[1]. j. sally. numbers of generator...