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Saeed Ketabi; Ali Sadeghi
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Using caption in teaching English as a second language has had its particular advocates throughout the history of language teaching. The present study intends to examine the potential effectiveness of captioned inputs for comprehension of English idiomatic expressions among EFL intermediate learners. ...
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Using caption in teaching English as a second language has had its particular advocates throughout the history of language teaching. The present study intends to examine the potential effectiveness of captioned inputs for comprehension of English idiomatic expressions among EFL intermediate learners. It is set to determine how captioned inputs result in comprehension of English idiomatic expressions in comparison with non-captioned inputs. To this end, the Oxford Placement Test (OPT) was administered to 82 students in an English Institute of Shahrekord, Iran, to find out their English proficiency levels. The participants took a test of 40 multiple-choice items as a pretest to determine their background knowledge in English idioms. The questionnaire data revealed that learners who used captions could promote their attention and improved their learning processing. A reliable posttest was administered after teaching fifteen units of their English textbook during 15 weeks. The mean score by Kolmogorov-Smirnov showed the group using captioned slides of English idiomatic expressions outperformed the other group.
Original Article
Sajjad Salehi-Kordabadi; Sajjad Karimi; Mohammad Qorbani-Azar
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After two decades of research, the clear relationship between a mission statement and a firm’s performance is not found yet. Past research has demonstrated the meaningful relationship between the mission statement and the performance. Some of these studies, however, have indicated there is no meaningful ...
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After two decades of research, the clear relationship between a mission statement and a firm’s performance is not found yet. Past research has demonstrated the meaningful relationship between the mission statement and the performance. Some of these studies, however, have indicated there is no meaningful relationship between the mission statement and the performance. The aim of this paper is to identify the relationship between the mission statement components and the performance components. Moreover, it tries to help managers to state high quality of the mission statement in their firms. Six-component mission statement was developed to measure the completeness of firm’s mission statement, and the BSC was used so as to measure the firms’ performance. The BSC includes four dimensions: financial, customer, internal process and learning and growth. In this research, field research technique was applied, and questionnaires were used in order to gather data. The statistical population was 35 firms. Totally, 1400 questionnaires were passed out, 40 questionnaires in each firm, out of which 1230 questionnaires were returned. SPSS 18 was utilized to analyze the data. Results indicated a significant positive relationship between the components of the mission statement and some of the performance components. The most significant positive relationship was found between the purpose and the financial component, and the least significant positive relationship was found between the vision and the internal presses. In addition, the financial dimension was related to the all the mission components. As a result, improving firm mission statement will improve financial performance, and strategic managers should devote extreme attention to this issue.
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Mohammad Rahim Rahnama; Mohammad Ajza Shokouhi; Akbar Heydari
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Strategic urban planning has become an important tool promoted by local governments for the city’s economic and social development project design. To achieve this, In order to, it is necessary to adopt a strategic planning approach to enhance the quality of life process. The aim of this paper is ...
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Strategic urban planning has become an important tool promoted by local governments for the city’s economic and social development project design. To achieve this, In order to, it is necessary to adopt a strategic planning approach to enhance the quality of life process. The aim of this paper is evaluating the status of Strategic Planning (SP) in enhancing quality of life (QOF) in Saqqez city. In so doing , the applied methodology is based on qualitative and quantitative methods with point on social indicators to adjusting the level of quality of life in the spatial system of the regions and reduction and removal of the existing inequalities among urban districts of Saqqez city by consideration of strategic planning approaches. Results showed that from the 100% of statistical population in Saqqez city about 45% had 20- 35 years old with Diploma and higher education (10% diploma, 15% MA and MS and about 20% of them have MS and upper academic education) and almost of Saqqez citizens have under 200$ income per month while poverty line in Iran can be detected with revenues of about $ 500 per month. In the end of this presented some solve ways.
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Hossein Jenaabadi; Bahman Ruzrokh
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This study examines the effects of self-control on social adjustment of Azad university students' happiness Khash city. Research method was a descriptive -survey. The study population consisted all 213 Azad university students in the city of Khash. Random cluster sampling was in multi-stage and research ...
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This study examines the effects of self-control on social adjustment of Azad university students' happiness Khash city. Research method was a descriptive -survey. The study population consisted all 213 Azad university students in the city of Khash. Random cluster sampling was in multi-stage and research instrument is self-control questionnaire, social adjustment (personality measurement of California) and the Oxford Happiness. The findings of research suggest that self-control was effectively related to happiness and social adjustment. Also, there was a significant relationship between happiness and social adjustment of students. Further, the results showed that there is no significant difference between students' self-control in terms of genders, but there was a significant difference between social adjustment and happiness of male and female students; male students showed higher happiness and social adjustment than female students.
Saeid Rahimipour
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Recently, literature and its applicability as a powerful source of authentic and rich linguistic materials have received profound attention and consideration. Unlike the past, it is being searched and analyzed from any possible aspect for its efficiency and power of utilization in the class. This paper ...
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Recently, literature and its applicability as a powerful source of authentic and rich linguistic materials have received profound attention and consideration. Unlike the past, it is being searched and analyzed from any possible aspect for its efficiency and power of utilization in the class. This paper has tried to detect in the researches done on the applicability of literature to language teaching, specially the status of poetry and drama as two powerful genres of literature in the field of language teaching and learning as well as the detailed introduction of their feasibility and application to literature understanding and language teaching. The paper has tried to utilize them in their classes and devise ELT textbooks from theoretical viewpoint and pave the way for the practitioners and curriculum developers their mode of administration and deployment.
Original Article
Kiumars Hashemi Fard
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In this paper, we examine the relation between ethics and mathematics and, through the formulas, we conclude a negative or positive behavior. If it was negative, it would behave incorrectly and if it was positive, it would be correct. Of course, each behavior is considered completely separate, and many ...
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In this paper, we examine the relation between ethics and mathematics and, through the formulas, we conclude a negative or positive behavior. If it was negative, it would behave incorrectly and if it was positive, it would be correct. Of course, each behavior is considered completely separate, and many of the benefits to each behavior may not be known yet. So any behavior will have either positive or negative effects; here is just one example of this template to illustrate them. Smoking was considered as a behavior. Given the advantages and disadvantages, an impact was defined for each, and eventually these impacts were expressed in terms of numbers, and the result was a negative number, which indicates that smoking is a negative behavior.
