although some piecemeal efforts have been made to investigate the validity and use of the iranian phd exam, no systematic project has been specifically carried out in this regard. the current study, hence, tried to attend to this void. as such, to ensure a balanced focus on test interpretation and test consequence, and to track evidence derived from a mixed–method study on the validity of irani...

With the growing demand for e-learning all over the world, constant evaluation ofits curriculumis incumbent upon institutions which aimto be competitive in thismarket.  To this end, the present study employs SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, opportunities, Threats) analysis as the tool for the identification and prioritization of the gaps of the current e-TEFL(Electronic Teaching English as a Foreig...

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of Research Articles (RAs) in various languages and fields abound; however, only scant attention has been directed toward abstracts written in Persian, and in the field of literature. Moreover, claims made by Lores (2004) regarding the correspondence of two types of abstracts with different models, and by Martin (2...