despite the existence of a large variety of competency frameworks for medical graduates, there is no agreement on a single set of outcomes. different countries have attempted to define their own set of competencies to respond to their local situations. this article reports the process of developing medical graduates' competency framework as the first step in the curriculum reform in tehran univ...

Luise von Flotow is a Professor of Translation Studies at the School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa, Canada. She got her BA in German and French from the University of London (1974) and her MA in French from the University of Windsor (1985) and her Ph.D. in French from the University of Michigan (1991). Professor von Flotow was the director of the School of Translation ...

This paper explores the perceptions and practices of postgraduate-level students about translation in language education. More specifically, it aims to examine significance studies pedagogy. Thus, prime concern this study is see how connected through culture establish relationship among between teachers, students, curriculum methodology. Data for were collected from primary sources. In doing so...

this study was an attempt to investigate the realization of catford’s shifts in the farsi translation of english psychology texts, a product-oriented point of view, shedding light on the areas farsi is different english. inspired by a study conducted by khorshidi (2010), the two questions raised in the study sought to detect the kinds of shifts applied in the translation of english psychology t...

The present article reports a study carried out to investigate whether or not awareness of functional translation theories has any impact on the translation quality of translator trainees. 2oo Iranian undergraduate students took part in this study. They were divided into four groups -two- experimental and two control groups. After homogenizing the participants by a TOEFL test, a translation pre...

a curriculum deals with all the aspects of language learning including experience and purpose of learning, evaluation, and teacher-student relationship. an accurately planned curriculum for instruction can basically guarantee the success of an educational course. the present study is aimed at introducing nation & macalister language curriculum design (2010). doing so, the stages and principles ...

this article emphasizes the findings of a survey conducted to find out the views of students on the environmental education (ee) in iranian secondary school (ss) curriculum. a total of six hundred students from forty secondary schools, randomly selected ss from five zones in tehran city responded to the questionnaire. two research questions were asked while two hypotheses were tested in this st...

Biochemistry Scientists are increasingly recognizing the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in contemporary biological research, but the majority of graduate students are still trained to conduct research through a traditional approach that focuses on individual disciplines. In a recent issue of Cell, Lorsch and Nichols (2011) suggested reorganizing life sciences curricula to overcome t...