the present study aimed at exploring cognitions of iranian english teachers within the context of english for academic purposes (eap). to this end, the cognitions of two groups of eap teachers with respect to their pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and their sense of professional identity (pi) were probed. two language teachers and two content instructors who had at least five years of eap te...

این مطالعه به بررسی رابطه میان دریافت شنیداری و میزان تحمل ابهام و سطوح بالا، متوسط و پایین آن در زبان آموزان ایرانی در اصفهان می پردازد.علاوه بر این، تاثیر تدریس ضمنی صورت های خفیف و اتصال گفتاری در تلفظ، بر دریافت شنیداری و تاثیر این آموزش ها و گذر زمان در تغییر سطح تحمل ابهام بررسی شده است. پس از همگون سازی شرکت کنندگان به وسیله آزمون تعیین سطح آکسفورد، 82 شرکت کننده به 4 زیرگروه کنترل و آزم...

iv abstract this study examined the linguistic behaviors of two iranian efl teachers each of them teaching learners of two similar proficiency levels, a beginner level and an intermediate level, to investigate the relationship between the learners proficiency levels and the amounts and purposes for l1 use by the two teachers. the study was carried out to investigate whether there were differe...

in reality, most structures involved in geotechnical engineering are three dimensional in nature, and although in many, plane strain or axisymmetric approximations are reasonable, there are some, for which 3-d treatment is required. the quantity of data, and the size of the various vectors and matrices involved in such analysis, increase dramatically. this has sever implications for computer r...

abstract this paper discusses several commonly used models for strategic marketing¹ including market environmental analysis methods (i.e. swot and pest analysis) and strategic marketing tools and techniques (i.e. boston matrix and shell directional policy matrix)and shows how these models may help a firm to achieve its strategic goals. at first, the main reason for doing this research is de...

Infiltration of water into the soil accounts as a phenomenon in which most of researchers and scientists are interested so it acts a prominent role in the water cycling. Owing to temporal and spatial variation of infiltration, measuring of it in a direct way requires a long time and high cost. Thus, using a method for measuring the soil infiltration in an indirect way instead of direct way for ...

abstract while task-based instruction is considered as the most effective way to learn a language in the related literature, it is oversimplified on various grounds. different variables may affect how students are engaged with not only the language but also with the task itself. the present study was conducted to investigate language and task related engagement on the basis of the task typolog...