the salient, and often ignored, role that out-of-class learning plays in second/foreign language (l2) learners’ development is overshadowed by classroom research. the main aim of this study is to problematize the role of out-of-class learning in the specific english-as-foreign-language (efl) context of iran by examination of the ways in which four learners attempted to revamp their english lang...

journal of accounting advances (j.a.a) vol. 2, no. 2, fall & winter 2010, ser. 59/3     extended abstract   an investigation of agency theory and signaling theory in dividend policies: the role of institutional investors   dr. g. r. karami         dr. s. mehrani               h. eskandar tehran university   introduction        dividend has a special position among decision makers. dividend poli...

than at the motor level, yet still firmly anchored on a particular situation of actions rather than detached. To understand the proximal intentions of others, it is thus not enough that one be able to retrieve the immediate motor goal of an observed movement, one must also infer its possible significance given further information about the situation in which it occurs. Moreover, given that even...

Agency in interactive narrative is often narrowly understood as a user’s freedom to either perform virtually embodied actions or alter the mechanics of narration at will, followed by an implicit assumption of “the more agency the better.” This paper takes notice of a broader range of agency phenomena in interactive narrative and gaming that may be addressed by integrating accounts of agency fro...