although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Drought is one of the most prevalent and dangerous disturbances around the world, which cause significant economic and agricultural losses. Kerman province located in the center of Iran is in the first places of drought. The purpose of this research was to investigate the meteorological and hydrological drought condition of the study area. The relationship between meteorological and hydrologica...

acknowledgements i wish to express my gratitude to all those who have helped me in preparing this thesis. i would like to express my deep gratitude to my respected advisor dr. kourosh akef, whose advice and comments helped me in the early stages of the research and throughout the writing process. i would also like to express my gratitude to dr. hajar khanmohammad whose invaluable guidance he...

هدف از این مطالعه بررسی امکان استفاده از داروهای شناخته شده در درمان سایر بیماریها به عنوان داروهای ضد سرطان است. همچنین با استفاده از این داروها در ساختمان کمپلکس فلز می توان شاخص های دارویی بدست آمده را بررسی نمود. داروی ضد ویروس ایدز(hiv)به نام زیدوودین(azt)انتخاب و.کمپلکس.محلول.در.آب[pt(azt)2]cl2سنتزو به روشهای مختلف فیزیکی و شیمیایی شناسایی گردید. بر هم کنش مقایسه ای این دارو و کمپلکس پلا...

with the introduction of communicative language teaching, a large number of studies have concerned with students’ oral participation in language classrooms. although the importance of classroom participation is evident, some language learners are unwilling to engage in oral activities. this passivity and unwillingness to participate in language classroom discussions is known as “reticence”. rev...