this study investigated the functions, types and frequencies of code switching in the teachers and students discourse in elt classrooms. to this end, the participants of this study including two groups of teachers and students were selected. the first group of participants were two efl teachers teaching general english courses (at two different levels of proficiency) in an institutional program...

burnout is a response to the chronic work stress which is prevalent mostly among the people who do people job, like teaching. the purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument that can measure burnout in foreign language teachers. although some widely used instruments were developed before which measured burnout in teachers, a specific instrument which include specific sy...

nitric oxide (no) is a small molecule synthesized by most of mammalian cells with diverse biological activities including vasodilatation, host defense and wound healing. impaired wound healing is a common occurrence among diabetics and patients receiving glucocorticoid therapy. on the other hand the application of laser in biomedical area have been increased. thus, the current studies were desi...

like any other learning activity, translation is a problem solving activity which involves executing parallel cognitive processes. the ability to think about these higher processes, plan, organize, monitor and evaluate the most influential executive cognitive processes is what flavell (1975) called “metacognition” which encompasses raising awareness of mental processes as well as using effectiv...

the main purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between listening proficiency and metacognitive listening strategies awareness among low, mid, and highly self-regulated students. three hundred and seventy one efl students participated in this study (all grade 3 and 4 high-school students who were studying in khansar in academic year 1391-92). to gather the data, three ...

درک الگوی توزیع مکانی ماکروفون خاک بدلیل اثرات آن روی فرآیندهای اکوسیستم بسیار مهم است. لیکن اطلاعات کمی در این خصوص وجود دارد. درمورد تنوع زیستی ارگانیسم ها وجانداران خاکزی که ازاجزای مهم وکلیدی درهرسیستم اکولوژیکی هستند و در بهبود حاصلخیزی خاک و تولیدات زمین وپایداری اکوسیستم ها(ازطریق فرآیندهای بیولوژیک)نقش عمده دارند تحقیقات کمی انجام شده است. این تحقیق جهت بررسی الگوی مکانی پارامترهای تنوع...

building on previous studies on intellectual features and learners’ grammar learning, the present study aimed at investigating whether intelligence criterion had any impact on efl learners’ english grammar learning across two intelligence levels. in the current study, the participants were divided into two experimental and control groups by administration of raven i.q. test. this led to the for...

میزان نشو و نما و قدرت باروری شبپره ی مدیترانه ای آرد 2) جوانه ی ) ،(fb) ( رژیم غذ ایی تهیه شده از ( 1) آرد گندم + سبوس گندم ( 75 درصد و 25 درصد 3) جوانه ی گندم + ) ،(myg) ( گندم + مخمر نان + گلیسرول به نسبت ( 10 به 1 به 2 وزن به وزن 4) سبوس گندم + مخمر نان + گلی سرول ( 20 به 1 به 2 ) ،(my) ( مخمر نان ( 10 به 1 وزن به وزن و ( 5) سبوس گندم + مخمر نان + گلیسرول + آب ( 100 به 5 به 10 به 5 وزن ...

the present study is an attempt to investigate the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving english abstract vocabulary recall. to achieve this goal, a multiple choice language proficiency test of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students whose age ranged between 17 to 22 and they were studying en...

the purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the relation between efl teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and their success. moreover, the study was an analysis of the teacher age, gender and years of teaching experience, to examine the manner in which these factors relate to teacher self-efficacy as defined by bandura (1997) and teaching effectiveness as evaluated by their own student...