this study was conducted to investigate the impact of podcasts as a learning and teaching tool on iranian efl learners’ motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. the study also investigated the learners’ perception towards listening to podcasts and examined whether the learners were likely to accept podcasts. out of fifty-five intermediate learners studying e...

this study attempts to investigate the effect of peers’ revision in comparison to that of the teacher, and whether peers’ comments and teachers’ comments facilitate students’ revision? if yes, which one is more effective? also attempts have been made to see which aspects of language are more highlighted by peers versus teachers when commenting. besides, it is investigating the student’s attitud...

Handicrafts, due to cultural and economic capabilities, have recently been featured in some countries as one of the subcategories of creative cultural industries and countries such as China, South Korea and the UK have made precise plans in this regard. Turkey, which has long cooperated with Iran in the field of handicrafts, is one of the leading countries in the field of cultural industries. S...

Even though the development planning in Iran has been applied since the 1940s, it has not still made much progress in terms of balanced development as well as the regional justice in development and a huge amount of human capital, financial and natural resources which are consumed, have obtained few achievements. Therefore, it seems necessary to examine and analyze critically the dominant appro...

‘romanticism’ and ‘romantic’ are among the most controversial terms in literature. most readers, when encountering these words, would think of the well-known period of romanticism of the first three decades of the nineteenth century and the great six english poets known as ‘the big six’ of this period. however, romanticism does not belong to certain artists in a special period; one may seek ele...