abstract the primary purpose of this study was to explore the actual practices and cognitions of two groups of iranian eap teachers, i.e. language teachers and content teachers, with respect to teaching reading-comprehension and vocabulary. to this end, tehran university of medical sciences which authorizes both groups of teachers to teach eap courses was selected as the context of the study s...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between cognitive distortions with married women teachers’ marital quality in the of Kermanshah city. The study population consisted of all married women teachers in Kermanshah was in 1395 that the number of samples of 150 persons were selected by multistage cluster sampling. To collect data from marital quality scale revised form (RDAS) an...

The present research was performed to Design the Marital Adjustment Model with due attention to Islamic life Style and Perfectionism in High School Teachers in Birjand. The method of research was non experimental and structural equation Modeling (SEM). A sample of 300 teachers from Birjand city was selected through random cluster sampling (150 male and 150 female). The tools included: Locke-Wal...

this study was intended to analyze the listening tapescripts of the elementary and pre-intermediate levels of total english textbooks from the pragmatic dimension of language functions and speech acts in order to see whether the listening tasks are pragmatically informative or not. for this purpose, 8 conversations from the two books were selected randomly, and then, the two pragmatic models of...

the present study aimed to investigate representation of discourse markers and metadiscourse markers in conversations and readings of general elt coursebook series used in the language centers of iran. to this aim, four elt coursebooks popularly taught in language centers of this country were analyzed based on fung and carter’s (2007) framework regarding discourse markers and hyland’s (2005) fr...

Introduction & Objective: The present study is a case-control retrospective study. The purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between “endemic goiter "and “food habits "of governmental high school students of Khoy city.  Materials & Methods: Target population in this research is divided into two groups: “case population " and "control population". Case population include...

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...