this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of using c-test passages on the reading comprehension and incidental vocabulary learning of iranian intermediate efl learners. the participants were 60 male efl learners at kish mehr institute in garmsar. in fact, there were two groups, an experimental group and a comparison group with 30 students in each. the participants were pretested throu...

august wilson is undoubtedly one of the rare black playwrights whose works have attracted streams of attention and worldwide audience. the present study aims at analyzing fences and piano lesson which are two of the most successful plays in his pittsburgh cycle from the perspective of michel foucault’s theories and ideas. studying these two plays from foucault’s perspective opens new windows in...

this study investigates the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext. technically, field dependency is prevailing dominance of field on perception of parts, while global comprehension is skim-like reading to grasp the general content. in this research project, 60 senior and junior students of arak university majoring in english literature...

در جهان امروز و در شرایط رقابتی بازار، کیفیت محصول و بهره وری به عنوان دو عامل اساسی و مهم در حفظ و بقای موسسات حرف اول را زده و آنهایی که از بهره وری و کیفیت بالاتری برخوردار هستند در بازار حضور داشته و ماندگار خواهند ماند. از این رو اطلاع مداوم از وضعیت بازار و کیفیت و کمیت محصولات رقبا و همچنین سیستم ها و روش های انجام کار آنها برای هر موسسه و شرکت رقیب ضروری و اجتناب ناپذیر است تا ضمن اینکه...

the following question poped up: is there any relationship between iranian high school efl learners reading comprehension and listening comprehension? then the following null hypothesis (ho) was developed to the test the above, mentioned question. "there is no relationship between high school efl learners reading comprehension and listening comprehension. for nearly 16 weeks, the experimental g...