writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

simplification universal as a universal feature of translation means translated texts tend to use simpler language than original texts in the same language and it can be critically investigated through common concepts: type/token ratio, lexical density, and mean sentence length. although steps have been taken to test this hypothesis in various text types in different linguistic communities, in ...

the aim of conducting this study was to investigate the foreign language learning needs of undergraduate economics students and business management students in faculties of social sciences of alzahra and azad naragh university. in the study, which was designed on the basis of a qualitative-quantitative basis using interviews and questionnaires, 146 female undergraduate business management as we...

Introduction: Most experts consider learning approach as the fundamental basis of learning dividing it into two parts of deep learning approach and surface learning approach. This is an endeavor to investigate the relationship between learning and study approaches with academic achievement among students in Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional stu...

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Present study was designed to investigate the effects of three teaching- learning approaches including discovery, interactive and transmission approaches on the students learning performance in biology lesson. In this quasi- experimental research three experimental groups (N1=60, N2=71, N3=63) were used in order to identify any significant difference between the students learning performance wh...

Abstract The present study was conducted to determine the effect of learning self-regulation strategies on surface, deep and strategic learning approaches of high school first grade female students in Yazd. The study method was pre-test and post-test design. For this purpose, a sample size of 57 subjects was selected by multistage cluster sampling method among high school first grade female ...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the status of computer games with a linguistic approach in making schools smart for the students suffering from learning disorders with a focus on reading disorder. The authors will try to adopt an approach based on research and development and use their own and their colleagues’ educational and rehabilitation experiences. They also try to discuss the i...