the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

this study purported to compare and contrast the use of self-mention and evidentials as two mtadiscourse features in opinion columns of persian and english newspapers. the theoretical basis of this study is the idea that metadiscourse features vary across cultural boundaries. for this purpose, 150 persian and 150 english opinion columns were collected based on three factors of topic, audience a...

Purpose: In 2007, a responsible management education program began working on a global scale at the United Nations. This program is a framework for changing curriculum, research and orientation, and experimenting with new educational methods. The program seeks to create social responsibility among graduates of the educational system. The conditions for regulating affairs through social commitme...

with the introduction of communicative language teaching, a large number of studies have concerned with students’ oral participation in language classrooms. although the importance of classroom participation is evident, some language learners are unwilling to engage in oral activities. this passivity and unwillingness to participate in language classroom discussions is known as “reticence”. rev...

abstract the following study, in the first place, attempted to examine the effect of less experienced teachers participation in experienced teachers classes on their own skills and teaching methodology, in the second place, attempted to find out the role of teachers training in students achievements. for this purpose, 21 efl teachers were selected according to available sampling in kish l...

Today participation considers one of the main concepts of sustainable development. One aspect of participation is citizen participation in urban affairs that the people have much more intercommunity in the city affairs that it provides the possibility of further success, as well as makes easy preparation and implementation of urban projects and consequently improves living standards. The purpos...