The purpose of this paper was to investigate the authenticity of IELTS academic tests. Bachman and Palmer (1996, p. 23) define authenticity as “the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given language test task to the features of a target language task”. Authenticity is then an important aspect of testing since it describes the relationship between the test and the real world. Th...

narrative interpretations are composed of both authentic traditions and fictitious ones. so, first of all we should separate faked narrations from authentic ones.in addition, not all the authentic hadith are considered as exegesis of qur'an. it is necessary to categorize them. so, every narration has to be in a special category and is harmonized with other narrations in the same category a...

Within an authentic learning framework, second year pre-service teachers were introduced to LAMS (the Learning Activity Management System) as part of one of the information and communication technology (ICT) units they are required to complete as part of their course. Using case study methodology, the students returned some interesting results: LAMS helped the students plan all aspects of their...

The ability to recognize the emotions of others is a crucial skill. In visual modality, sensorimotor mechanisms provide an important route for emotion recognition. Perceiving facial expressions often evokes activity in muscles and motor somatosensory systems, this relates performance tasks. It remains unclear whether how similar extend audition. Here we examined electromyographic electrodermal ...

This research sought to examine the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between authentic leadership and work engagement among school principals and teachers. The study had a descriptive, correlational design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all school principals and teachers in Aleshtar (located in Lorestan Province) in school year 2016-17 from ...