background: the spread of technology has influenced different aspects of human life, and teaching and learning are not exceptions. this study aimed to examine the potential contribution of the use of technology in teaching english language to medical students.   methods: this qualitative-action research study was conducted in birjand university of medical sciences (bums), with 60 medical studen...

Background: The spread of technology has influenced different aspects of human life, and teaching and learning are not exceptions. This study aimed to examine the potential contribution of the use of technology in teaching English language to medical students.   Methods: This qualitative-action research study was conducted in Birjand University of Medical Sciences (BUMS), with 60 medica...

due to the close proximity of mazanadaran and russia there have always been considerable language contacts between the two regions. for example , in mazandarani dialect there have been numerous loanwords borrowed from russian language , while they are not in use in standard persian or its other dialects . this paper will examine these type of loanwords . they are occasionally imported with a di...

Despite the recognition of the Arabic language by the United Nations and its active development, there are no powerful interactive dictionaries to accompany efficiently this development. In addition, most of the existing dictionaries require knowledge of morphological rules to get the meaning of words. We studied in this paper the “Interactive Dictionary of Arabic Language”. This is, in our kno...

The purpose of this study was two-fold, namely: 1) to obtain clarity on the meaning of the term preceptor, and 2) to establish how the term preceptor is interpreted in the nursing colleges of the RSA and to ascertain whether this interpretation is consistent with the general connotation of the term in contemporary nursing literature. Dictionaries and relevant contemporary nursing literature for...

The study presented in this paper reviews the emergence and development of Hungarian economic legal terminology. It is based on research during which I examined over 1 000 terms from their first publication specialized dictionaries, through changes meaning, all way to integration into technical vocabulary or extinction. My also focused reasons why colloquial meaning a term may cause disappearan...

The wealth of scientific information published in English presents difficulties to students who learn English as a second language. Indeed even in the study of science, this can be a problem because many scientific terms are not found in dictionaries. Another complication is the selection of meaning from the different senses of words in the dictionary. In this paper, we present a multi-dictiona...

al-sâmi fi al-asâmi is one of the important and authentic arabic-to-persian dictionaries, and has been used by many of the subsequent lexicographers. in this dictionary the subjects are first classified and then divided to some chapters. the author has gathered some arabic words in each chapter and has given their persian equals. in this article the dialectal and old words of this dictionary ar...