this study was conducted to investigate the impact of podcasts as a learning and teaching tool on iranian efl learners’ motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. the study also investigated the learners’ perception towards listening to podcasts and examined whether the learners were likely to accept podcasts. out of fifty-five intermediate learners studying e...

This study was conducted to estimate stability of yield in forage sorghum varieties for identifying varieties with combine stability and high yield potential across two cropping conditions. Thus, seven forage sorghum varieties were evaluated for three years under two cropping conditions including spring (E1) and summer (E2) cropping, using a randomized complete block design with four replicatio...

Nowadays, the increase in population growth rate and followed by anthropogenic activities such as urbanization, industrialization, mining and agriculture practices continuously increase the amount of heavy metals in the environment especially groundwater resources. Therefore, qualitative assessment of groundwater resources is of great importance for maintaining public health and for this reason...

This study aimed to achieve length frequency, condition factor and length-weight relationship of the rock oyster, Saccostrea cucullata in the coastal waters of Persian Gulf. Sampling was carried out by 0.25 m2 quadrat through intertidal zone from winter 2015 to autumn 2016. According to the results, length-weight relationship calculated as W=0.000004L2.79 for both sexes. In addition, coefficien...

this thesis seeks to present a critical reading of virginia woolf’s mrs. dalloway and michael cunningham’s the hours in terms of an intertextual approach, concentrating on dialogic imagination, negativity, transposition and allusion. this study attempts to evaluate cunninghams perception of woolfs life and work by adopting kristevas conception of intertextuality and her consideration of the hou...