the existence of eight imitations and five translations of hosn va del into other languages such as english and german shows the importance of this persian book of verse. many researchers have sought the sources of this work and some sources have been mentioned, but the imitation of sibak neishaburi from nezami’s khosrow va shirin, as the most important source of this work, has not yet been m...

Comic books provide an appropriate and structured context for education and personal or peer reflection. In this paper we discuss the benefits of comic books and technology in a pedagogical context, including the mechanism of scaffolding and how this interaction impacts upon the child's environment. Our studies into the educational benefits of comic books have lead to the development of an inte...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the comparative effect of using electronic short story books and traditional printed texts on efl learners’ reading comprehension. for that purpose, ninety female learners ranging in age between fifteen and thirty five sat for the language proficiency test (pet, 2009) as the test of homogeneity and consequently sixty students were selected based on t...

There is an increasing focus on promoting person-centred systems across continuing care settings, emphasizing the need to enhance the quality of life of older adults. Life story books (LSB) can provide a holistic view of older adults, promote relationship-centred care and enhance person-centred care. The process of developing LSB involve collecting and recording aspects of a person's life both ...

Early literacy in children begins through picture drawing and the subsequent sharing of an orally narrated story out of the drawn picture. This is the basis for the Picture Books story generation system whose motivation is to produce a textual counterpart of the input picture in order for the child to associate words with images. However, stories are comprised of sequences of events that occur ...

Electronic picture storybooks often include motion pictures, sounds, and background music instead of static pictures, and hotspots that label/define words when clicked on. The current study was designed to examine whether these additional elements aid word learning and story comprehension and whether effects accumulate making the animated e-book that also includes hotspots the most promising de...

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shawāhid al-nabuwwa of ‘abd al-raḥmān jāmī (d. 898/1492) is among the books written by one of the sunnī scholars who has authored it with a sufi taste. in this book, jāmī has addressed the life of the prophet (s.a.w.), the twelve imams (a.s.), and the companions (ṣaḥāba) with a miracle-oriented approach and has presented precisely the same reports about the imams (a.s.) that are found in shī‘ī ...

purpose: the main purpose of this study was to identify the type and the extent of hurtful elements in commercial picture storybooks which have been published in iran for the children grades of a and b. these elements were categorized into two groups: i.e., carelessness in specifying book features, such as the title page, the information page, etc. and other elements (i.e., attractive features,...

in this study an adaptation of halliday and hasan's (1976) description of cohesion in english was applied to the spoken narratives of typical developing children. regarding the development in grammatical cohesion, narrations of 3 groups of children 4;00 to 7;00 years of age, 5 in each age group, were analyzed and compared with each other. this research applies an experimental method.to evaluate...