the purpose of this study is to investigate and explore the causes of identity crisis as one of the debilitating consequences of colonial project after the withdrawal of colonial power. in order to do justice to the full-length severity of displacement that was the fruit of indentureship, v. s. naipauls west indian epic, a house for mr biswas, has been scrutinized with the main focus being the ...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of task-based instruction of vocabulary on the receptive and oral productive acquisition of english vocabulary and compare the results with those obtained from the traditional method. the method and procedure applied in this study was as follows: after the implementation of opt, a group of sixty female students were chosen. the stu...

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...

The purpose of the present research is exploring qualitatively, national and ethnic identity in the lifeworld of Baloch student at state universities. In this research, grounded theory has been used as one of the qualitative research methods. The research participants were Masters and Ph.D. Baloch students at state universities. Datas are collected through in-depth interviews. Interviews contin...

چکیده: این پژوهش با عنوان بررسی نقش جامعه ی شبکه ای به روی هویت اجتماعی جوانان شهر اصفهان، در مرحله اول، به شناخت پیامدهای جامعه ی شبکه ای برروی مقوله هویت اجتماعی ومولفه های آن به صورت کلان اقدام شدو در مرحله بعدی به بررسی فرضیه های ارائه شده در طول تحقیق، و درک وجود پیامدهای این پدیده بر روی ابعاد مختلف هویت اجتماعی پرداختیم. در این پژوهش از 2 روش پیمایشی وروش اسناد ومدارک علمی استفاده ده ا...

abstract lexical knowledge of complex english words is an important part of language skills and crucial for fluent language use (nation, 2001). the present study, thus, was an attempt to assess the role of morphological decomposition awareness as a vocabulary learning strategy on learners’ productive and receptive recall and recognition of complex english words. so 90 sophomores (female and ma...

the purpose of the research is to examine if integrating cooperative learning into vocabulary learning helps to increase word recognition of students in an elementary school in iran. it tries to investigate whether cooperative learning approach enables students to improve their language learning. this research used stad (students team achievement division) as a cooperative model in this study. ...

the present study aimed at exploring cognitions of iranian english teachers within the context of english for academic purposes (eap). to this end, the cognitions of two groups of eap teachers with respect to their pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and their sense of professional identity (pi) were probed. two language teachers and two content instructors who had at least five years of eap te...