the present paper is the result of the surveys done on the translation of the robaiyyat-e hakim omar khayyam sera'iki language. these translations that are mostly done on the basis of valid and authentic texts both in the persian and english languages, can be divided into two categories: i. translation into prose of the robaiyyat ii. translation into verse of the robaiyyat together with ex...

In a series of engaging observations on colonialism and territorial conquest, Edward Said crafted the notion of “imaginative geography” to describe the ideological impulses of dominant groups seeking control of places and people.1 According to Said, imagined geography is a process initiated by groups with territorial ambitions who reinvent meanings about the landscapes they covet, and frame dis...

Research has suggested that teachers’ beliefs toward culturally diverse classrooms are affected during teacher education. Text reading, as one of the major learning activities in initial education, is supposed to affect educational concepts and beliefs. We conducted two experiments test impact reading a positively or negatively oriented persuasive text about diversity on preservice belief chang...

Fusing textual information, as type of information fusion, has been great significance to those interested in making informative texts out the existing ones. The main idea behind text like any other is merge partial from different sources such a way that outcome can hold reasonably high relevance with regard certain objectives. In this paper, fuzzy framework proposed for generation, according w...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the importance of skopos in the translation of political texts from English into Persian. To do this, 30 Iranian translators were conveniently selected and equally divided into the in-house and freelance translators. They were asked to translate a translation test encompassing 10 short political texts that were extracted from English news websites...

May, L. A. (2011). Situating strategies: An examination of comprehension strategy instruction in one upper elementary classroom oriented towards culturally relevant teaching.

one important issue that any material or test designer should bear in mind is to be careful about developing teaching and testing reading materials which would not be to the benefit of a group of readers or examinees and to the detriment of some others. one of the factors which may cause difference between the performances of english learners or test takers is the selection of reading tests wit...

Maintaining students’ engagement with reading texts that reflect their background knowledge has positive effect on comprehension. Culturally relevant materials provide more equitable opportunities to students, in the sense of them can reap benefits being able connect text (Christ & Sharma, 2018). This article aims identify characteristics texts, particularly those categorized as culturally ...