the main objective in sampling is to select a sample from a population in order to estimate some unknown population parameter, usually a total or a mean of some interesting variable. a simple way to take a sample of size n is to let all the possible samples have the same probability of being selected. this is called simple random sampling and then all units have the same probability of being ch...

while performance-based language assessment has led to an increased authenticity and content validity in the practice of writing assessment, the reliability of ratings has become a major issue. research findings have shown different reactions by native english speaker (nes) and non-native english speaker (nns) teachers to students’ writings. the focus of this study is on investigating whether i...

«فیلون اسکندرانی» را می توان اولین فیلسوفی برشمرد که تلاش کرد، تا دین و فلسفه را بدون اینکه یکی را رد و دیگری را اثبات نماید با یکدیگر بیامیزد. این رساله در پی آن است که ترجمه ای روان و وفادار به متن، از سه بخش کتاب «philo: foundations of religious philosophy in judaism, christianity, and islam» نوشته ی h. a. wolfson، پژوهشگر و فیلون شناس معاصر، ارائه نماید. وی در این سه بخش ضمن معرفی آراء و ان...

abstract this study aimed at investigating the translation of interjections from english into persian in dubbing. to carry out this study the expressive secondary interjections found in the film four weddings and a funeral and their equivalent in persian dubbed version were analyzed through the strategies proposed by cuenca. the descriptive analysis of the corpus showed that (strategy b) i.e...

abstract this research has been carried out with the purpose of investigating the conditions and related elements of the employment of the educational sciences graduates of hamedan province universities in 1382-1387 academic years. it has been a descriptive research of a correlation kind, and the population number has been 1180 grduates of payam- e noor universites in asad – abaad, kaboudaraha...

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...

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...