this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Abstract: Two experiments were conducted to study the impact of salt stress and salicylic acid (SA) on seed germination and plant growth of maize (SC704) under field conditions in the city of Kerman in 2010. For germination experiment, SA seed pretreatments included control, water soaked, SA soaked in 0.1 and 0.2 mM for 24 hours and salt treatment included control, 40 and 80 mM NaCl. All see...

abstract the current study set out to address the issue as to whether the implementation of portfolio assessment would give rise to iranian pre-intermediate efl learner autonomy. participants comprised 60 female in pre-intermediate level within the age range of 16-28.they were selected from among 90 language learners based on their scores on language proficiency test -key english test. then, t...

the history of plant’s used for mankind is as old as the start of humankind. initially, people used plants for their nutritional proposes but after the discovery of medicinal properties, this natural ?ora became a useful source of disease cure and health improvement across various human communities. berberis vulgaris is one of the medicinal plants used in iranian traditional medicine. berberis ...

most specialists in the field of foreign language teachingconsiderreading skill as an interactive process between the reader’s prior knowledge and the text.accordingly, the activation of prior knowledge for an effective comprehension is very important. it is generally agreed that the pre-reading phase is the stage where this type of interaction and activation may be enhanced throughcertain stra...

A pot experiment was conducted in order to study the effects of mycorhizal inoculation on the response of sorghum genotypes to salinity. The experiment was arranged as factorial in a randomized complete block design with three replications. In this study ten sorghum genotypes were tested under two levels of salinity (0 and 100 mM Nacl), and two inoculation (mycorhizae and control) treatments. T...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ class management practices with students’ self- regulated learning and academic self-efficacy. in this study relating to the management class, three dimensions, (training management, people management and behavior management) and three style (interventionist, interactionist and non-interventionist) was considered. r...