this paper is a short review on the jann and content of speech and language rehabilitation services and the trend of their institutionalization in iran. a summary of formal education in speech and language therapy in iran as originated by establishing a 4 year bs rehabilitation program in the college of rehabilitation sciences in tehran in 1974 is given. since then, speech and language rehabili...

background: english for specific purposes (esp) courses should empower students to satisfy their language needs. however, at many iranian universities, these courses are mostly taught based on the grammar translation method focusing on teaching grammatical rules and reading comprehension. the present study aims at proposing an innovative approach for teaching english to medical students that ca...

This paper introduces a declarative formal language, called Executable English, for specifying computations. The language is designed to be readable, without training, by any English speaker with an engineering or science background. Hence, programs can be read by members of an engineering team who are not themselves programmers, but whose technical knowledge is being used to create the program...

Despite being trained in pre-service teacher education programs, most EFL teachers are underprepared when faced with language assessment-related activities. Part of the problem emanates from the fact that Language Assessment Literacy (LAL) as a construct has not been well defined by experts. The purpose of this study was to pinpoint the components of LAL in the Iranian EFL context using an adap...

Many recent analyses for conventional imperative programs begin by transforming programs into logic programs, capitalising on existing LP analyses and simple LP semantics. We propose using logic programs as an intermediate program representation throughout the compilation process. With restrictions ensuring determinism and single-modedness, a logic program can easily be transformed to machine l...

Teachers’ professional development is a life-long and continuous process in which teachers are expected to upgrade their knowledge, master new skills, change practices, since advancement teaching career has an impact on students’ achievement education reform. This study determines the teachers’ assessment of programs at Public Authority for Applied Education Traini...