abstract this study aimed at investigating the impact of etymology strategy instruction on the development of vocabulary of iranian intermediate efl learners. etymology, knowledge of origin of words, roots, and affixes, has proved to be a controversial issue and a question of long debate with regard to its impact on the process of vocabulary learning. this study employed etymology strategy 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...

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

increasing academic and professional language demands around the world are not a deniable fact. the purpose of this study was to investigate english language needs and communication needs of the chemistry students at master and ph.d. levels at the iranian universities. in this research, different methods were used including un-structured interview, structured interview, and two sets of question...

language learning courseware has been receiving growing attention by english educators since its advent. a variety of softwares have been designed by software designers and resorted to by language educators to supplement language textbooks. this experimental study investigated how the application of computerized version of language textbooks and the reception of the entire course through comput...

  Background and Aim: One of the important factors in health maintenance and promotion is correct garbage disposal. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of adolescents’ participation on the sanitary collection and disposal of garbage.   Material and Method: In his quasi-experimental, before-after study, the research population consisted of all adolescents of 102 families living in Ro...

This research is a purely field research and it has little theoretical aspect what the author has been trying to do is atlasi designs identify and introduce as one of the most prominent and common projects in Jiriya village. therefore, this is the first and most recent research in this field. Jiriya village with a proposal in history and culture, one of the most active villages in the central p...