abstract i the purpose of this study was to launch a thorough investigation concerning the possibility of differing orientations to the writing proficiency construct by native and non-native english speaking teacher raters. it mainly revolved around the international english language testing system (ielts) that is widely administered and employed as a measure of general proficiency in englis...

the present study sought to investigate the impact of using mind-mapping technique instruction on female elementary efl learners reading comprehension; it also investigated their attitudes towards using mind-mapping technique as a tool to improve their reading comprehension. this study followed a quasi-experimental design with two intact groups as experimental, and control groups. the participa...

the purpose of this two-phase, sequential mixed methods study was to find out whether there were any decencies between male and female ma students’ theses regarding the common features of academic writing such as syntactic complexity, means of integrating cited information, and organizing arguments. i chose 10 male written theses and 15 female written theses in tefl and linguistics. in the firs...

this study focuses on jane austens representation of her heroines in two of her novels: pride and prejudice, and mansfield park. i have concentrated only on a single idea: how jane austen takes her heroines through a course of psychogical reformation to which almost everything else in her novel is subsidiary. although i have discussed only pride and prejudice, we can trace austens carefully pla...

سازند پابده در برش دره شهر شامل 260متر شیل، شیل آهکی، مارن و آهک می باشد. مطالعات انجام شده بر روی فرامینیفرهای پلانکتون منجر به شناسایی و ارائه تعداد 12 بیوزون شده است. این بیوزون ها عبارتند از: بیوزون شماره یک: parasubbotina pseudobulloides partial-range zone ، بیوزون شماره دو: subbotina triloculinoides partial-range zone، بیوزون شماره سه: morozovella angulata partial-range zone ، بیوزون شمار...

Introduction: Ensuring research experience achievement by students is one of the most important goals of thesis conduction process and evaluating students' satisfaction with thesis supervision manner is one of the most imperative challenges of this process. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the degree of students' satisfaction with thesis supervision in Tabriz University of Me...

nowadays in trade and economic issues, prediction is proposed as the most important branch of science. existence of effective variables, caused various sectors of the economic and business executives to prefer having mechanisms which can be used in their decisions. in recent years, several advances have led to various challenges in the science of forecasting. economical managers in various fi...

this thesis basically deals with the well-known notion of the bear-invariant of groups, which is the generalization of the schur multiplier of groups. in chapter two, section 2.1, we present an explicit formula for the bear-invariant of a direct product of cyclic groups with respect to nc, c>1. also in section 2.2, we caculate the baer-invatiant of a nilpotent product of cyclic groups wuth resp...