This investigation set out to look into the issue of teachers’ exercise of agency in the Iranian EFL context. More specifically, as part of a larger study, it reports on the ways two Iranian Ministry of Education teachers make sense of and operate in the country’s educational setting under the demands of a centralist system of education. Priestley, Biesta, & Robinson’s (2013) framework of teach...

this paper analyzes the history of russian settlements in the northern provinces of iran in the early 20th century. these settlements developed in what was defined as the russian sphere of influence by the anglo-russian convention of 1907 and, unlike in the caucasus of central asia, preceded a military conquest. russian colonization in iran started as a spontaneous peasant migration in 1907 and...

The present paper deals with the national specifics of the assessment aspect in the meaning of the words. A modern scientific paradigm considers the language as a cognitive tool of understanding the world and keeping and representing people’s experience and values which reflect the people’s vision of the world (“the world picture). Usually linguistics understands the language ...