this study purported to compare and contrast the use of self-mention and evidentials as two mtadiscourse features in opinion columns of persian and english newspapers. the theoretical basis of this study is the idea that metadiscourse features vary across cultural boundaries. for this purpose, 150 persian and 150 english opinion columns were collected based on three factors of topic, audience a...

the present study aimed to investigate representation of discourse markers and metadiscourse markers in conversations and readings of general elt coursebook series used in the language centers of iran. to this aim, four elt coursebooks popularly taught in language centers of this country were analyzed based on fung and carter’s (2007) framework regarding discourse markers and hyland’s (2005) fr...

abstract: one of the most visited & important spaces in different countries by tourist are urban areas. the old tehran which major part is located in district 12 is historical showcase of the capital, but, its hiidden cultural attraction is not used as it should be. this thesis occasionally engage in studying the efficacy of correct installation of travel guide boards in welfare & easily acc...

current studies in second language (l2) learning have revealed the positive role of corrective feedback (cf) in both oral and written forms in different language features. the present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of both direct and indirect written corrective feedback (wcf) on the use of grammatical collocations in l2 writing. the study also sought to examine whether the effec...

recent years have witnessed an increased attention to form focused instruction and consciousness raising activities (ellis, 2002; doughty & williams, 1998) on the one hand and extensive and meaningful exposure to the target language (klapper & rees, 2003; day & bamford, 1998) on the other. due to significance attributed to above mentioned issues by scholars, this study attempted to bridge them ...

Quantitative and qualitative information of vegetation and its changes in duration of time as a basic foundation of determination of  habitat quality, priority of protected area and also determination of price of ecosystem services in order to optimum management of natural resources and sustainable development is a very important technical point. In other hand, researchers are interested in rem...

abstract the balvard metamorphic assemblage (bma) crops out at the northeastern margin of the southeastern part of the sanandaj-sirjan zone (ssz) in contacting to the dehshir-baft ophiolitic mélange. this location prepared a special situation to resolve some of the complicated tectonic problems of this part of iran. petrology, micro-tectonics and satellite image investigation were carried out ...

چکیده هدف اصلی این پژوهش تعیین رابطه استراتژیهای خود رهبری و خلاقیت اعضای هیات علمی دانشگاه علم و صنعت بوده است. در این پژوهش از روش توصیفی از نوع همبستگی استفاده شده است. جامعه آماری پژوهش کلیه اعضای هیات علمی دانشگاه علم و صنعت در سال تحصیلی 88-1387 بود که بالغ بر345 نفربودندو از این تعداد، 119 نفر استاد با استفاده از روش نمونه گیری تصادفی طبقه ای متناسب با حجم انتخاب شد. ابزار جمع آوری داده...