in the area of vocabulary teaching and learning although much research has been done, only some of it has led to effective techniques of vocabulary teaching and many language learners still have problem learning vocabulary. the urge behind this study was to investigate three methods of teaching words. the first one was teaching words in context based on a traditional method of teaching that is,...

The dispute resolution mechanism in the World Trade Organization is a way of leveraging in the political and economic relationships. Countries’ legal knowledge plays a substantial role on disputes’ initiation and continuation. This study assesses the effect of previous WTO disputes on the hazard rate of attendance in a new one, using survival analysis. Our dataset encompasses 427 disputes from ...

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

there is less published research about how teachers in efl contexts respond to students who are relatively less mature and less competent l2 writers. while writing researchers have examined various issues concerning peer and teacher response in writing-oriented classes, little research has centered on the effect of collaborative tasks particularly dictogloss on writing skills. output collaborat...

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

  In contrast with general principle of open legal proceedings in governmental courts we have a general rule governing on arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution like negotiation, arbitration, mediation, privacy & confidentiality proceedings.   In other words, in this method third parties except for parties of dispute are not authorized to be present and observe parties disputes. F...