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...

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 ...

this study investigated the effects of planning on second-language written production with regard to task type. the participants were 75 iranian learners of english as a foreign language attending a private foreign language institution. they were asked to complete two different types of writing tasks (expository writing task and argumentative writing task) in different planned conditions (indiv...

The internet use and internet addiction is increasingly considerable among the students and university students. The current study aimed to determine the factors of internet addiction based on the planned behavior theory among boy students of the dormitories of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2012. In the descriptive-analytical study that was carried out by cluster sampling on 150 boy...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ class management practices with students’ self- regulated learning and academic self-efficacy. in this study relating to the management class, three dimensions, (training management, people management and behavior management) and three style (interventionist, interactionist and non-interventionist) was considered. r...

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Changes arising from E-banking expanding in banking system, the existing difficulties in relation to E-banking services usage and lack of tendency in some customers and even bank employees to use these services, have caused bank system managers to explore effective factors on internet banking adop-tion by customers. The purpose of this research is the inspection of factors influencing adoption ...

Growing use of technology, despite all its benefits, has led to problems that one of them is Internet Addiction. Recently, Internet Gaming Addiction added to the section of conditions for further study in 5th edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) which indicates the importance of this issue. Researches conducted in Iran has shown that almost 30% of students ar...