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Using of language skills has long been among the most conspicuous weak points of learners of Arabic language as a foreign language. By interviewing some professors and experts of Arabic language teaching, a number of topics were recognized as worthy to be investigated further as sources of weakness. These topics include “sources of boredom and tiredness of students in learning Arabic language”, “the appropriateness of existing instructional materials”, the appropriateness of the teaching methods”, “the sources of students motivation”, “ the effect of teaching methods on motivating students” in general and “ the appropriateness of methods for teaching listening” in particular. A researcher made questionnaire was used to elicit the viewpoints of students and professors regarding each of the above-mentioned topics. The results indicated that learners of Arabic language are not de-motivated but bored and tired due to the overall teaching context, in which they are learning this foreign language. Among the major sources of this boredom are “inappropriate teaching methods”, inappropriate instructional materials” and “inappropriate techniques in teaching listening comprehension”.

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Among the most important lessons, as the most striking aspect of literature in any language and by which the main objectives of this field are met, are the courses related to the poetic texts. A great deal of Arabic language and literature is devoted to literary texts, among which much is devoted to the poetic texts. But for many years, the poetic texts are taught with traditional methods in this field and many of the teachers do not use new strategies in teaching of these texts. This has led the poetic texts not to be successful in reaching their main goals, meaning the improvement of literary talents of students and strengthening their desire and motivation to their field. This study tries to deal with the appropriate strategy performances in teaching Arabic poetic texts in Arabic language and literature useing survey and questionnaire methods. The population of this study includes the fourth and higher semester undergraduate students and Arabic language and literature field professors in the Universities of Tehran, Allame Tabatabaei, Beheshti and Tarbiat Moallem. The findings demonstrated that in many students’ and professors’ point of view, new strategies of teaching of poetic texts (i.e. semantic perception of poetry, aesthetic expression of verses and stylistic analysis) are performed less than the traditional strategies pertaining to correct reading of texts and expression of grammatical points.

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The aim of the present study is practical contrastive analysis of differences and similarities between the system of imperative mood of verb in Persian and its correspondence, imperative category, in Arabic considering structure, meaning, and usage. This study is accomplished based on the moderate theory of linguistics and using a descriptive-analytic method, it predicts difficulties and errors of Persian speaking students of Arabic in learning the imperative category in Arabic which in turn leads to the improvement of learning process. The results reveal that the imperative mood of Arabic is more varied than Persian in structure, meaning, and usage. Also, the deontic modality category in Arabic imperative is evident in imperative verbal noun, infinitive substituting for imperative, and an imperative verb which has an emphatic “n ”. whereas, Persian does not have this feature and uses adverb to show the deontic modality. In Arabic imperative, unlike Persian, the scope of imperator’s request is defined. Therefore, language learner will be confused in using such imperative categories.

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Teaching every language has got its own special hindrances and features. Undoubtedly, teaching Arabic Language in Iranian schools is not excluded from this fact. Some of the hindrances of learning Arabic language are refered to the content order of the school books. Especially teaching Arabic high language in grade one seems to be a difficult job for some reasons such as the students' enterance to a new stage. If the different components of the books' content get realized and catagorized, the understanding and explication would be easier. Thus analizing the content of Arabic high school book in grade one can be an important step towards identification of its weaknesses. This article aims to evaluate the Arabaic high school book in grade one on the basis of content analysis patterns and arrangement criteria relying on Content Analysis Approach, which is a resaerch method for objective, quantitative and organized discription of superficial contents in communications. The research was descriptive-analytic. The results showed that considering These patterns and criteria, this school book has been highly successful in accurately performing the principles of edunation planning and content arrangement.  

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The purpose of this research was to study the efficiency of general Arabic language teaching program in Kerman high schools based on the students’ and teachers’ viewpoints. This study is an applied quantitative method research. The research instruments are two researcher-made questionnaires for measuring the teachers’ and students’ viewpoints. The population involves all male and female Arabic teachers of Kerman city, as well as male and female Mathematics and Science junior high school students of all public high schools of Kerman city. The research sample was selected through stratified random sampling method, and amounted to 30 female Arabic teachers, 30 male Arabic teachers and 236 students. The findings revealed that  Arabic language teaching goal is not consistent with the learners’ and society’s needs; Arabic textbooks’ content does not meet the content selection standards set in curriculum planning; Arabic teachers are not well prepared for Arabic language teaching; Arabic curriculum goals are not met; students’ proficiency in Arabic language skills is disappointing; students’ interest in Arabic language and learning, is moderately low; and finally, students’ acquaintance with Arabic language learning strategies is low. Accordingly, we can conclude that the increase in Arabic language teaching efficiency in schools needs more efforts to prepare the society with positive attitude towards Arabic language and Arab people, and also to change the educational approach to Arabic language teaching/learning in our school system.

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This study describes the result of relationship between DISC personality types and pay to performance system as well as the relationship between Herzberg two-factor model and pay to performance. 300 mangers’ of Bank Refahe Kargaran has selected to participate in the study through random selection. Data gathered and analyzed in this research were based on three measurements of Herzberg two-factor questionnaire, the Disc Profile questionnaire and Dowling and Richardson pay to performance questionnaire. Analyzed data clearly show that managers having Conscientiousness behaviors were significantly more satisfied with pay to performance. In addition, within this personality type, the relationship between all Herzberg two-factor items and pay to performance were positive and highly significant. This study implied that DISC types have a moderate effect on the pay to performance effectiveness and implications, limitations, and suggestions were also discussed.

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Need analysis (NA) is one the important elements of the curriculum that tries to detect lacks, wants, necessities and the gap between the existing curriculum and developed curriculum. NA is a powerful tool that helps clarify and validate true needs. It enables educators and practitioners to shape the curriculum development that bases the content of language courses on the communication needs. This work analyzes the language lacks of the Arabic language and literature students of Iranian universities. The method of study is survey, and the research tool is questionnaire. The study sample is consisted of two groups of students and teachers. The method of data analysis is quantitative. The main question of this study is: “To what extend do students have problems in language skills” and “To what competence does problems belong?” The results showed that the students' language skills are above the average difficulty, and they have linguistic problems arising from the lack of communicative competence.

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Componential Analysis of Words is a branch of semantics in which all words of a text are analyzed to their roots and semantics components in order to rearrange them to achieve a semantic whole at the level of the word. Any attempt in this theoretical framework to reconstruct them in target language would result in a precise and cogent translation of the source language. Thus , the present study by adopting a descriptive –analytic and critical research methodology aims at analyzing semantic components of Sūrat al-Baqarah’s verbs whose eleven well –known contemporary translations including Ayati, Arfa’ , Elahi Ghomshei, Searaj, Safarzadeh , Fouladvand, kavianpour, Garmaroudi, Mojtabavi, Meshkini and Makarem shirazi’s translation have been the focus of several challenges. The results of this research showed that the translators have ignored the componential analysis of words at the level of the verb and have just considered the primary and basic meaning of each word. In addition, the translation of Meshkini, Elahi Ghomshei and Mojtabavi is more accurate and reliable than for instance that of Arfa’.

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One of the important issues in the field of media is the impact of ideological issues on the translation of this type of texts. The Current paper seeks to examine this type of influential effects and discourse affecting the translation process and changes in target language. Therefore, based on Julian House’s translation quality evaluation pattern which is characterized by high accuracy to highlight the function of ideological issues on the text, a news text was selected from Aljazeera media network and its translation was evaluated in Fars News agency. The results showed that the translator of the above mentioned news text has been strongly affected by media policies and discourse ruling on the target language and in this way, he had to apply some changes in the original text. In the studied case, the same process has been observed and translator of Fars news agency has translated the Aljazeera news in a way acceptable to his own media discourse and had no attention to the original text and its main role.
 

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Reading skills is one of the most important language skills. The Success in learning a second language depends on this skill. But it is noted that the final semester students of the Arabic language and literature department who are ready to be graduated and even many graduates of this field are not able to read the Arabic texts correctly and fluently. Therefore, the authors of the present study intend to use the descriptive-analytical method and survey method to evaluate the reading skill of Arabic of undergraduate students to identify their weaknesses on reading and offer some suggestions for developing them. It should be noted that different studies have been conducted on reading skill in Iran and Arabic countries, but none of these studies investigate the weaknesses of Arabic language and literature students of Iran state universities in reading skill. So the present study is completely different from previous studies. The main question of the study is: how weak are Arabic language and literature students in reading skill and what are the reasons of these weaknesses? The statistical sample of the present study has been formed by124 undergraduate students in the Arabic language and literature department in 12 Iranian state universities, 41 of them are male and 83 are female. The tool used in the study is a researcher-made test, which has been designed for the first time for reading skill in Arabic language and literature and the existing models in the Arabic countries have been used to design the test. The results reflected the weakness of students and their lack of mastery in this skill. Although the students who are ready to be graduated, faces weakness in all levels of reading. There is a kind of consensus amongst the experts of Arabic language on this issue. The most important reason of this problem is that there is no special lesson for reading skill in the syllabus.
 

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Currently, the major discussions in the field of Linguistics belong to Typology and Linguistic Universals. Typology is a linguistic study that analyzes the structural similarities among languages regardless of their history. This term was first applied to the categorical and comparative study of linguistic notions by a linguist named Gublentez. Typology is not merely a tool for categorizing and defining general patterns in languages. It is an approach for understanding the nature of language as well. In typological studies, attempts are made to group languages from different families in order to reach more precise studies and results. This article also consists of the same attempt. Persian is an Indo-European language, and Arabic is a Semitic one. Language Universals refer to the characteristics and features which are present in most languages worldwide. This notion is known due to the efforts of Greenberg. After analyzing 30 different languages, he proposed the notion of Language Universals. Typology and Language Universals show a strong relationship and complement each other due to the fact that typological categorization leads to the discovery of universal principles in the structure of languages. The relation between language universals and typology dates back to 1960s. From that point in history, the notion of typology is accompanied by Greenberg’s Language Universals.
Studying the order of structural elements has been one of the most important discussions in the world of Typology. That is firstly due the fact that languages have more differences in this matter and these differences are the foundation of typological studies. Secondly, according to Greenberg, between the order of fundamental parts and other structural features of language exist a typological correlation.The most important and common approach for posing a question in languages is through interrogative words. By using interrogative words various notions such as place, time, people, and causes are subject to inquiry. The existence of such words is universal, that is, it seems highly unlikely to find a language that does not carry interrogative words. In typology numerous factors are analyzed, among which is understanding the movements of interrogative words in languages. Dabirmoghadam (1393) has proposed 24 factors, and factor 22 relates to interrogative words. Topologists have identified two main types: first is that interrogative words replace the element of the notion which is put under question, and second, interrogative words are placed at the beginning of a question sentence. In this study, an attempt is made to study the movement of interrogative words in both Persian and Arabic in order to illustrate their position in the lingual typological system. In addition, the influencing factors on this movement are discussed. The method of this study is analytical-descriptive and selected pieces are from published and online materials (books, newspapers and magazines) in both languages and these pieces are from various areas ranging from social to religious, scientific, literal and so on. In the theoretical framework of the study, there are some details related to interrogative words in both languages and a table is drawn consisting of these words in Arabic and Persian respectively. Meanwhile the movement of interrogative words were defined that in this research it refers to the place of such words in sentences in comparison to the same declarative sentence. In the analysis, firstly some of the important views related to these words are represented; in Persian, views by Bateni (1392), Khanlari (1391), Vafai (1392), Gholamhossein Zade (1391) and Meshkataldini (1374), and in Arabic views by Sibooye (2004), Ebn al Saraj (1999), Hassan (1975), Jorjani (1982) and etc., afterwards, selected pieces which consist the basis of this research are analyzed.
According to the findings of this research, Persian and Arabic fall into different types of interrogative words movements. The tendency in Persian is to replace the element of question, while in Arabic interrogative words come at the beginning of a question sentence. Furthermore, these two languages are compatible to the language universals they represent. With well more than chance frequency, when question particles or affixes are specified in position by reference to the sentence as a whole, if initial, such elements are found in prepositional languages, and, if final, in postpositional. Plus, if a language has dominant order “VSO” in declarative sentences, it always puts interrogative words or phrases first in interrogative word questions; if it has dominant order “SOV” in declarative sentences, there is never such an invariant rule. This conclusion is based on the analysis of cases indictive of the fact that the movement of interrogative words to the beginning of the sentence is a strong tendency in Arabic language. As a result, Arabic language corresponds to Language Universal number 12 since this universe acknowledges the movement of interrogative words to the beginning of a sentence in “VSO” structures. Additionally, since interrogative words in Arabic are among those which question the nature of a sentence, they come at the beginning of a sentence. Language universal number 9 also acknowledges Arabic language since it carries more prepositions.
Furthermore, it is recognized that interrogative words replace the element of question in a sentence. This fact shows the tendency of this language. Therefore, Persian language with the core structure of “SOV” is in harmony with the language universal of number 12. According to this universe, the movement of interrogative words does not tend to come at the beginning of a sentence in “SOV” structures.
 The above-mentioned findings are presented in a table. Another finding of this research is that structural, semantic and processing factors have an impact on the movement of interrogative words. For instance, in Persian the interrogative word of “why” usually comes at the beginning of a sentence since it put the nature of a sentence under question. However sometimes, a conflict occurs between the word “why” and other elements such as “interjection” on the first position of the sentence and the interrogative word gives the space to interjectory words and comes in second. To propose another example, interrogative words tend to occupy the first position in a sentence in Arabic, however sometimes it is observed that the element of question has occupied the first position, while the interrogative word is in the second position. In fact, this replacement is due to the significance of the element.
 
 

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Urban historic areas as a living witness of the history of the past and the main factor in collective identity are dealing with dialectic conflict of "development" and "conservation" that leads to different types of conflicts especially secondary ones. Confrontation of conservation and contemporary needs of the residents is one of the challenging issues. So, this paper tries to analyze conflicts toward planning of urban historic in order to define a new conceptual framework for achieving conflict management-driven urban contemporization.
This study has been done based upon qualitative paradigm and the required data have been collected by using snowball sampling, document analysis and in-depth interviews. Analyzing conflict toward planning of urban historic areas has been done based upon grounded theory and bridging conflict management and urban contemporization done based on logical argumentation.
Findings show that the weakness of conservation planning and management system of the historic areas and the inefficiency of planning and management system of development in such areas at decision-making level are the main factors in the confrontation of development and conservation that lead to the emergence of secondary conflicts at operational level. In case of conflict management, it will be possible to combine two concepts of conflict management and urban contemporization.
Managing conflict between development and conservation can be resulted in achieving conservation-led integrative development as a factor of urban contemporization. Therefore, protecting heritage values along with supplying modern needs of residents can be achievable.
 

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With the rapid growth of the Internet, e-learning has been prevailed in various societies. Despite the emerging trend of using web-based learning systems to facilitate teaching and learning activities, the number of users of web-based learning systems is not increasing as fast as expected. In this research, an integrated model has been used in order to assessing the influence of IS-oriented, psychological and behavioral factors on instructors’ adoption of web-based learning systems. To examine the research model, collected data from 115 university instructors were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results showed that subjective norm and information quality have positive effect on perceived usefulness; also, self-efficacy, service quality, subjective norm and information quality are effective on perceived ease of use. In addition, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and system quality all increase instructors’ intention to use web-based learning systems; however, perceived usefulness is the most important factor affecting on intention and actual use of the system (adoption).

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In fire community, predicting large scale fire behavior is the main target of researches. Flame spread from one area to another is one of the most important fire behaviors which may lead to destruction of buildings, jungles and etc. Therefore, in recent years, flame spread of solid is attracting many attentions and many studies focused on these phenomena. Pyrolysis modeling is one of main aspects in flame spread simulations via computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. A 1D pyrolysis model has been developed based on OpenFOAM, an open source toolbox in order to enhance FireFOAM solver potential to simulate flame spread on solid materials. The prediction of developed pyrolysis model has been compared with empirical data for surface temperature and mass loss rate of PMMA. Uncertainties in experimental measurements caused for input parameters not to be unique, thus, a particular set of model input parameters have to be determined to reach an acceptable agreement between pyrolysis model and experimental results. Using optimization method is very common in that matter. The non-linear nature of problem and input parameters being numerous would make optimization calculation expensive. In this article, the effects of input parameters (as PMMA properties) have been investigated to firstly, to observe the effects of material properties on pyrolysis process. In the other hand, the most influential properties are introduced in order to reduce computational costs in optimization process by optimizing only these properties.

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Geographic information and analysis provide a wide range of data and techniques to monitor and manage natural resources. As an important case, in arid and semi-arid areas, water management is critical for both local governance and citizens. As a result, the estimation of water potential brought by snowmelt runoff and rainfalls seems to be very useful and important for these areas. Hydrological modeling needs vast knowledge about integrating all relating parameters. In this work, different data sources including the remote sensing observations, meteorological and geological data are integrated to supply spatially detailed inputs for Snowmelt Runoff Modeling in a watershed, located in Simin-Dasht basin in the northeast of Tehran, Iran. Because of high temporal frequency and suitable spatial coverage, MODIS optical images have been chosen to map snow cover. The MODIS 8-day snow map product with spatial resolution of 500m (MOD10A2.5) is used to compute the snow cover area. In addition, during the snowmelt period in 2006-2007, archived meteorological and geological data are used to provide snow runoff modeling (SRM) parameters and variables. Also Landsat ETM+ images with better spatial resolution (30m) and less temporal coverage (16 days) are used in 2007 snowmelt period to compare the model accuracy with same conditions. Evaluation of the runoff outputs in both of models reveals good agreement with real data that prove SRM capability in modeling basin’s daily and weekly runoff. Model accuracy shows better satisfactory of snow runoff modeling results within snow cover area derived from Landsat ETM+ data and MODIS snow product was less accurate in modeling. Although using MODIS model accuracy was less, but still it is recommended due to less further process and providing better temporal coverage during snowfall and snowmelt season. Future works in this criterion could be concentrated on SRM forecast improvement using fusion with other measurements or combining physical models.

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The history of the human efforts for safety against earthquakes shows the catastrophic and harmful events, even nowadays. The majority of decisions in seismic safety policy are based on randomness assumption for earthquake time series. The accuracy of this assumption assessment, can accurate the strategies and resulted in more secure decisions. Also in structural control context, seismic time series prediction in the feedback systems, can reduces the time of control system reaction and in subsequent decreases structural damages. Recent studies have shown that dynamical structure of these complex time series can be better understand using nonlinear dynamics theory. In the present paper, we evaluate randomness and nonlinear characteristics of 9 earthquakes time series from metropolitan Tehran earthquake database using chaos theory conceptions. These earthquakes are Arjomand, Bumahen, Damavand, Eshtehard, Firuzkooh, Taleqan 1, Taleqan 2, Taleqan 3 and Tehran earthquake. To this end, we reconstruct phase space for delay time calculation using average mutual information function. Embedding dimension is calculated based on false nearest neighbors. Correlation dimension is used for earthquake chaotic behavior assessment and local prediction algorithm and artificial neural network are employed for earthquake prediction. Results illustrate nonrandom nature of evaluated earthquakes. These earthquakes have high dimension chaotic behavior. Earthquake prediction is good and acceptable accuracy using chaos theory and artificial neural network. The existence of the specific attractors in a part of 2D reconstructed phase space for the earthquakes show the presence of a nonlinear processes. This is an evidence for no stochastic behavior of the earthquakes. Also, reduction in the false neighbors with embedding dimension increases, shows no stochastic time series. Lyapanov exponent positive gradient displays a nondeterministic process, although it cannot warranty the chaotic behavior. Correlation exponents have high values for Taleqan1 and Tehran earthquakes. So these earthquakes saturate in large quantities. Bumahen and Damavand earthquakes correlation exponents have increasing trend and do not saturate. These observations prove the chaotic behavior of high dimension or random process with inconsiderable chaos. So these earthquakes cannot be predicted properly. Performing the local prediction based on the selected embedding dimensions and the neighbor’s number, showed that the predicted time series are relatively good for the earthquakes of Arjomand, Eshtehard, Firuzkooh, Taleqan 2 and Taleqan 3. Proper anticipated of trends, upward and downward branches as well as amplitudes illustrate the chaotic nature of the earthquakes. The correlation coefficient for Arjomand, Eshtehard, Firuzkooh, Taleqan 2 and Taleqan 3 are 0.9541, 0.4494, 0.5124, 0.6600 and 0.3697 respectively. In the case of Talegan1 and Tehran earthquakes, time series amplitudes and peaks do not predicted appropriately, but the prediction is acceptable. Correlation coefficient of Taleqan1 and Tehran are 0.2452 and 0.1760 respectively. Bumahen and Damavand earthquakes do not trace properly. It should be noted that for each earthquake, 20% of the endpoints of accelerations are used to evaluate the prediction process. According to the results of the analysis and earthquakes prediction in Tehran region, using phase reconstruction and artificial neural networks, we can say that the dynamics governing the earthquakes in this region are not random, but, chaos with high dimension. Earthquake prediction is good and acceptable accuracy using chaos theory and artificial neural network.

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The present paper attempts to estimate the relationship between labor productivity and health, technological progress and education, using panel data observing 57-nation Orgamization of Islamic Coopeation, OIC over the period of 1995-2009. A two-step procedure was used with the first involving an estimate of labor productivity based on observations in the  OPEC, GCC and ECO member countries and also African nations within the Islamic countries.  The second step involved an estimate of the effect on labor productivity of health, technological progress and education. Our findings indicate that labor productivities in Islamic countries with some exceptions on an average are above 3 with the highest of 12 belonging to Azerbaijan. Exceptions are Somalia and Gabon with negative productivities and Brunei and Cameroun with productivities around one. The only variable influencing labor productivity in the Islamic countries is health with technology and education having no meaningful influence.
 
 

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One of the most important ways to understand people's thoughts is to study their written works. Each author draws a method consistent with his or her desired goals in order to affect the minds of readers. The style plays an important role in content transfer and access to the purpose of writing, because the readers’ inclination to read texts depends a lot on the proper structure of sentences. The most important modern trends are Stylistic that has multiple approaches, including Statistical Stylistics, a trend that uses quantity to achieve quality. This research deals with the study of Statistical Stylistics in Al-Sahifah Al-Sajjadiyyah. Ten prayers based on their words and subjects were selected and then compared their vocabulary richness, according to the two theories propounded by Yule and his colleagues, and Johnson, through descriptive-analytical and statistical approaches. We concluded that the highest vocabulary richness of Al-Sahifah Al-Sajjadiyyah is for the prayer 19 (Johnson's theory), and prayers 19 and 29 (by theory of Yule et al.), and the lowest is for the prayer 38 (Johnson’s theory), and the prayers 38 and 54 (by theory of Yule et al.). Thus, according to the two theories, the highest vocabulary richness is related to the moral category and the lowest is related to the historical category, but the differences between them was not much, and the reason of this differences have been the impact of social conditions.