increasing academic and professional language demands around the world are not a deniable fact. the purpose of this study was to investigate english language needs and communication needs of the chemistry students at master and ph.d. levels at the iranian universities. in this research, different methods were used including un-structured interview, structured interview, and two sets of question...

abstract this study set out to compare the effect of modality of presentation (subtitled vs. auditory) in the comprehension of verbal content of documentary films among iranian efl students. to this end, (30 male 30 female) students were chosen from two schools. after their homogeneity was established, the students attended the listening sessions to watch five documentary films over t...

بررسی کمی و کیفی استنادها به تولیدات علمی نویسندگان صاحب نام در رشته های مختلف موضوعی در پایگاه وب علوم، آی.اس.آی (isi web of science) طی سالهای 2000 - 2009 به کوشش نجمه رفیع در این پژوهش به بررسی کمی و کیفی استنادها به تولیدات علمی نویسندگان صاحب نام در رشته های مختلف موضوعی در پایگاه وب علوم، آی. اس. آی (isi web of science) بین سالهای 2000-2009 پرداخته شده است. بدیهی است که ارزیابی...

this study investigated the functions, types and frequencies of code switching in the teachers and students discourse in elt classrooms. to this end, the participants of this study including two groups of teachers and students were selected. the first group of participants were two efl teachers teaching general english courses (at two different levels of proficiency) in an institutional program...

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this study investigated the effects of manipulating the cognitive complexity of tasks along +/- few elements and the time limits on l2 learners writing performance. to conduct the study, 60 iranian efl learners with two levels of proficiency, low and high intermediate, were selected and assigned to three groups based on the time devoted to task completion. the participants performed both a simp...