Receptive vocabulary measures for EFL Costa Rican high school students

efl listening strategies and anxiety among bilingual vs. monolingual junior high school students

از آنجایی که مهارت شنیدار یکی از مهم ترین مهارتها در یادگیری زبان های خارجی در بین زبان آموزان می باشد وهمیشه مورد توجه معلمان زبان انگلیسی و محققین در این رشته بوده است ،تحقیق حاضر به این موضوع مهم پرداخته و میزان استراتژی های شنیداری دانش آموزان و میزان اضطراب شنیداری در هنگام گوش دادن به یک متن را در دو گروه دانش آموز یک زبانه و دو زبانه مورد بررسی قرار داده است. دانش آموزان یک زبانه از دبیر...

Costa Rican Natural History

Iranian EFL High School Students’ Perceptions Regarding Written Grammar Feedback

This paper reports on a study thatinvestigated Iranian EFL high school students’ perceptions of written grammar feedback to specify their reasons for preferring comprehensive or selective feedback and choosing some feedback strategies. A questionnaire was administered to 100 EFL intermediate high school students who were selected based on their scores on a proficiency test. Moreover, semi-struc...

The Costa Rican health system: low cost, high value.

In 2001 the World Health Organization ranked the small Central American nation of Costa Rica 36th out of 191 countries for health system performance. Experts hail this as the result of health care reforms which changed the structure of the Costa Rican system and dramatically improved primary health care (PHC). Costa Rica, which has a population of 3.8 million, famously abolished its army in 194...

"The High Academic Achievement and Resiliency of Puerto Rican Students in a Milwaukee Public High School"

Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States. However, they have consistently lagged behind all other groups in terms of educational attainment. The dropout rate for Latinos in the United States is 30%. Only 55% of Latinos 25 and older have completed high school, compared with 84% of whites and 76% of African Americans (American Language Review, 1998). These statistics shed...