New challenges are coming in the present globalized world of 21 th century that consequently has required deep changes in educational process, since the 21 th century requires more creativity, critical thinking, problem solving as well as communicative skills. English, as the main international language, is playing an important role in the globalized world's people's life, so the scholars try to use more sophisticated learning methods in EFL scope. The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of project-based language learning, which is supposed by its proponents as a creativity developer, commonly used method in general science instruction, on some Iranian female intermediate EFL learners' reading ability as well as their vocabulary size improvement in short term, and long term vocabulary recall. The analysis of the collected data through out of this study confirms that, the PBL group's progress in all measured scopes were statistically significant. The researchers believe that using project-based language learning in Iranian EFL courses positively affects the learners' reading ability and accelerates their vocabulary achievement.

Background & Objectives: Brucellosis is a Zoonotic infection, occurs in different parts of the world especially in developing countries

Received: July 2015, Accepted: August 2015 Background: Brucellosis is a bacterial infection mostly transmitted by animals to humans; thus, consideration of sanitary instances is an important preventive method for this disease. Therefore, we designed a study in order to reduce the rate of brucellosis in Baneh County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. Materials and Methods:The sources of data were the medical documents of patients diagnosed in health centers and private laboratories during 2011-2012. Data were analyzed using SPSS software, and chi-square and t-test )P > 0.05). In addition, in the second section of the research, data on all brucellosis patients and experts were used to design an intersectional preventive interventions model for this county. Results: A total of 135 brucellosis patients were surveyed in this study during 2011-2012, and a total of 80 experts participated in this research. It was found that 43 patients (31.9%) lived in the city and 92 of them (68.1%) lived in a village; and 71 of them (52%) were men and 64 (48%) were women. The most common way of incurring the disease was drinking non-boiled milk [42 (31.11%)]. Moreover, 100% of the patients and 100% of the experts believed that intersectional intervention is the best prevention method for brucellosis. Conclusions: Considering the results, it can be concluded that the intersectional intervention with unique management is the best way for reducing the incidence and prevalence rate of brucellosisin in Baneh County.