this thesis is an evaluation of poetry of sylvia plath (1932- 1963) and forough farrokhzad (1935-1967) using feminist approach and finds the positive concepts of hope, reason and strength through feminine images in their poetry. plath and farrokhzad are from different cultures and different countries but they share the same concepts and themes in their poetry. by applying feminist theory to the...

according to coates’s (2004, as cited in zhang, 2010) definition of "conversational dominance" (p.111), it refers to the phenomenon of a speaker dominating others in interaction. specifically, it means how a speaker makes use of certain strategies to get the floor and maintain the floor. thus, the amount of talk is the main measurement for the dominance of the conversation. whether a speaker do...

the primary goal of the current project was to examine the effect of three different treatments, namely, models with explicit instruction, models with implicit instruction, and models alone on differences between the three groups of subjects in the use of the elements of argument structures in terms of toulmins (2003) model (i.e., claim, data, counterargument claim, counterargument data, rebutt...

a large number of single research studies on the effects of strategy-based instruction (sbi) in teaching english as a foreign or second language has been conducted so far. however, the lack of a comprehensive meta-analysis targeting the effectiveness of english language sbi is observed. moreover, the findings of experimental studies regarding the context of the english language, proficiency lev...

translation studies have become an accepted academic subject and books, journals and doctoral dissertations appear faster than one can read them all (bassnet and lefevere, 1990). but this field also brought with itself so many other issues which needed to be investigated more, in the heart of which, issues like ideology, ethics, culture, bilingualism and multilingualism. it is reported that ove...

the present research was conducted to explore the effect of employing two language teaching approaches, i.e. schema-based instruction (sbi) and translation-based instruction (tbi), on vocabulary knowledge, structure and reading comprehension ability of forty one female students learning english in grade one senior high school in rivash, kuhsorkh, iran. while sbi focuses on schemata, i.e. words ...

تحقیق حاضر گزارشی است از تحلیل بخش مقدمه دو دسته از مقالات که عبارتند از: 11 مقاله از دو نویسنده دوزبانه فارسی زبان, که شامل مقدمه 4 مقاله به زبان انگلیسی و چاپ شده در مجلات بین المللی, مقدمه 3 مقاله به زبان انگلیسی و 4 مقاله به زبان فارسی چاپ شده در مجلات داخلی می شود؛ و 12 مقاله از محققان خارجی که در مجله applied linguistics به چاپ رسیده است. مبنای تئوری این تحلیل ها نظریه سوئلز (1990) یا هما...

چکیده پژوهشکده امام خمینی(س) و انقلاب اسلامی مقطع تحصیلی:کارشناسی ارشدچکیده پژوهشکده امام خمینی(س) و انقلاب اسلامی مقطع تحصیلی:کارشناسی ارشد رشته تحصیلی:اندیشه سیاسی در اسلام عنوان پایان نامه:تبیین نظریه حکومت اسلامی امام خمینی بر مبنای الگوی فهم نظریات سیاسی اسپریگنز نام و نام خانوادگی دانشجو:علی مرادی استاد راهنما:دکتر یحیی فوزی استاد مشاور:دکتر منصور انصاری تاریخ شروع پایان نام...

abstract this study investigated the predictability of variables from a motivational framework as well as individuals qualities to predict three non-linguistic outcomes of language learning. gardners socio-educational model with its measures has been used in the current study. individual qualities presented in this study include (1) age, (2) gender, and (3) language learning experience. the...