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The Effect of Self-Regulation on Improving EFL Readers’ Ability to Make Within-Text Inferences

Self-regulation is the ability to regulate one’s cognition, behavior, actions, and motivation strategically and autonomously in order to achieve self-set goals including the learning of academic skills and knowledge. Accordingly, self-regulated learning involves self-generated and systematic thoughts and behaviors with the aim of attaining learning goals. With that in mind, this study aimed to ...

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A Message to Readers

going to look for a reviewer if I get a book on Optimization Techniques in the Steel Industry. But beyond that, books appear to be somewhat randomly selected and reviewed. Editors of such publications can rarely make the claim that the lists of books reviewed in their publications over some period represent in some considered sense the most important or significant books in the subject area in ...

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A Message to the Readers of Neuropediatrics.

The year 2015 has been a busy and productive year for Neuropediatrics. The journal is thriving and growing in many different aspects. The number of submitted articles rose from 201 (2014) to 241 (2015), corresponding to an increase of 20% in a single year. The average turnaround time of articles from submission to the decisionwas significantly reduced from40 days in 2014 to 29 days in 2015. Fro...