the purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the relation between efl teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and their success. moreover, the study was an analysis of the teacher age, gender and years of teaching experience, to examine the manner in which these factors relate to teacher self-efficacy as defined by bandura (1997) and teaching effectiveness as evaluated by their own student...

increasing academic and professional language demands around the world are not a deniable fact. the purpose of this study was to investigate english language needs and communication needs of the chemistry students at master and ph.d. levels at the iranian universities. in this research, different methods were used including un-structured interview, structured interview, and two sets of question...

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...

چکیده اهمیت اشیاء در نگاه انسان از آغاز پیدایش در زندگی جریان داشته و تاکنون نیز ادامه دارد. ساخت اشیاء از انواع کاربردی و آئینی آغاز و تا انواع الکترونیکی آن به همزیستی مسالمت آمیزی با انسان منتهی گشته است. حال اینکه این همزیستی در هر دوره ای از تاریخ چگونه خودنمایی می کند از اهمیت بسیاری برخوردار است.این رساله به بررسی موقعیت شی از جنبه های زیبایی شناسی، هویت مداری، نمادگرایی، جامعه شناسی ...

gol-e-gohar iron ore mine of sirjan in southern part of iran is a large open pit that operates below the groundwater table and during mining operation, dewatering is required to prevent operation processes from flooding. current operation is going on by digging wells in or out of the pit and pumping to prevent flooding. as a result of the former dewatering operation a vast deep cone of depressi...

چکیده مجموعه حاضر با هدف معرفی و ارائه ی توصیفی برای اصطلاحات رایج در دانش معنی شناسی تهیه شده است. برای دستیابی به چنین هدفی سعی بر آن بود تا صرفاً به واژگان نقش مند در شاخه ی عمده ی معنی شناسی زبانی توجه شود. در حوزه معنی شناسی زبانی، به اصطلاحات در شاخه ای از این دانش، یعنی معنی شناسی نظری (theoretical semantics) و آنچه معنی شناسی کاربردی (applied semantics) نامیده ایم، اشاره شود. و هدف از ت...

due to extraordinary large amount of information and daily sharp increasing claimant for ui benefits and because of serious constraint of financial barriers, the importance of handling fraud detection in order to discover, control and predict fraudulent claims is inevitable. we use the most appropriate data mining methodology, methods, techniques and tools to extract knowledge or insights from ...

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

the main purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between listening proficiency and metacognitive listening strategies awareness among low, mid, and highly self-regulated students. three hundred and seventy one efl students participated in this study (all grade 3 and 4 high-school students who were studying in khansar in academic year 1391-92). to gather the data, three ...

the present thesis is a study of postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. according to postmodern historiography,the established institution of history is one of the other manifestations of patriarchys power which has silenced women. the study analyzes angela carters nights at the circus as a postmodern historical novel which makes its female characters transgress the pat...