this study was an attempt to investigate and compare the effect of lexical inferencing and concept mapping on developing vocabulary retention of iranian language learners. sixty homogeneous students from different intact classes who were being taught as intermediate learners in sokhan english institute participated in this study. they were in different classes. a teacher made test as a pre-test...

recent studies in scientific education as well as foreign and second language instruction suggest that thinking has rarely been an integral part of education and training in classroom. some scholars decried the lack of emphasis on thinking in the institutes and schools. they noted that memorization and drills were rewarded,while inquiry, reflection, and consideration of alternatives were frowne...

در این پایان نامه ابتدا در مورد توابع تک ارز و خواص هندسی آنها و همچنین رابطه ئ این خواص هندسی با شرایط معادل خواص تحلیلی را مطالعه می کنیم. سپس زیر کلاسهای k وs^* (?) که شامل توابع نزدیک به محدب در دیسک واحد u است را تعریف می کنیم وبه کمک خواص پیروی و مشتق توابع تحلیلی خواص شمولیت، برآورد ضریب وقضایای پوششی وچند خاصیت دیگر را در مورد زیر کلاس k_s (?,a,b) مورد بحث وبررسی قرار می دهیم. کارهای ا...

Based on theoretical foundations and empirical studies in the field of the relationship between natural resources and internal conflict, 4 states can be imagined: a. Positive relationship between natural resources abundance and internal conflict (hypothesis of political resources curse) b. positive relationship between natural resources scarcity and internal conflict (hypothesis of political re...

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

Author Indexes Iranian Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery (Volume 16, No. 1-4)

Subject Iranian Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery (Volume 16, No. 1-4)

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...