abstract this study evaluates the iranian pre-university english textbook in terms of needs, objectives, content, and methodology. the study was designed on the qualitative- quantitative survey basis using interviews and questionnaires, a researcher-made textbook evaluation checklist and a needs analysis questionnaire. the textbook evaluation questionnaire was used in this study to elicit the ...

هدف این تحقیق بررسی رابطه میان راهبردهای فراشناختی خواندن،هوش هیجانی،وعملکرد تحصیلی در یادگیرندگان زبان انگلیسی بود. هدف دیگر تبیین تفاوت بین دو گروه دختر و پسر در رابطه با استفاده از راهبردهای فراشناختی خواندن و هوش هیجانی بود.صدوده نفر دانشجوی مترجمی وادبیات زبان انگلیسی از دانشگاه شهید باهنر کرمان در این تحقیق شرکت نمودند.برای جمع آوری اطلاعات از پرسشنامه آگاهی فراشناختی از راهبردهای خواندن ...

abstract: the present study is an attempt to find out cultural exophoric references in iranian high-school elt textbooks and touch stone series to compare the frequency of occurrence of such references in these books. the purpose is to find out which of the series of the books under investigation impose a greater referential burden on efl learners as far as their reading comprehension of the ...

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...

  This paper has studied orientalists’ arguments for Prophet’s awareness of reading and writing. Their claim has been founded on two historical narrations. As narrated, the Prophet has written the words Mohammad ibn a’bdollah down at the time of Hodaibiyah and at the end of his life he ordered the people around him to bring pen and paper to write some advices for them.  Considering the Prophe...

charles dickens was a voracious reader even in his childhood. his early reading of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century picaresque fiction greatly influenced his writing style. his first novel, the pickwick papers, is a tale of rogues and swindlers, adventures and quests, satire and comedy, and innocence and experience. oliver twist, dickens’ second novel, is a young boy’s progress through a cor...

gender is one of the most important parts of human identity that is formed in human beings by the process of socialization, especially in childhood. this process is realized in some ways including reading fiction books so children are exposed to this process from very early in life. this process and the mechanisms of its formation and development are investigated in this article in the story of...