this study examines the effetivenss of task-based activities in helping students learn english language structures for a better communication. initially, a michigan test was administered to the two groups of 52 students majoring in english at the allameh ghotb -e- ravandi university to ensure their homogeneity. the students scores on the grammar part of this test were also regarded as their pre...

Introduction: Among the consequences of social anxiety disorder are psychological dysfunction, avoidance of social interactions and the development of avoidant personality in adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of group psychotherapy based on acceptance and commitment on loneliness and social adjustment in girls with social anxiety disorder. Methods: The design of the...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy adopted for couples with integrative couple therapy in improving marital conflicts of couples with breast cancer. Methods: In this semi-experimental study, a pre-post design was used. Using available sampling, we approached 200 couples facing breast cancer referred to the educational and thera...

Introduction: ACT is a psychological intervention based on modern behavioral psychology that incorporates communication framework theory, in which awareness, acceptance, and commitment processes and behavior change processes are used to achieve psychological flexibility. Objectives: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) therapy on t...

Introduction: Due to the prevalence of depression in diabetes and the importance of negative self-referrals (worry and rumination) in the severity of depression, this study aimed to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of acceptance and commitment-based therapy with and without compassion on worry, anger rumination, and Self-Critical Rumination in Non-clinical depressed diabetic Patients. Met...

abstract listening is a key and main tool in second language skill and its development is of prime concern to teachers and learners. furthermore, the application of technology in language classrooms has become more commonplace in the last fifty years. computer and the internet have made foreign language materials easy to access and use. so, the present study is an attempt to examine the effec...

abstract this study examines the effect of teaching lexical inferencing strategies on developing reading comprehension skill of iranian advanced efl learners. participants were female students of meraj and shokouh institudes of garmsar a quasi-experimental design using two intact advanced classes of efl students at meraj and shokouh institutes. as the first step, a general toefl proficiency te...

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

this study examined the effects of collaborative strategic reading and direct instruction in persuasion on iranian high school students persuasive writing and attitudes. students in three intact classes were assigned to one of three treatment conditions: collaborative strategic reading and direct instruction in persuasion or direct instruction in persuasion or a control group. treatment effects...

Introduction: Kidney disease causes many physical and mental problems for the patient and reduces the quality of life of these people. The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and process emotion regulation training in quality of life of hemodialysis patients. Method: The statistical population of this semi-experimental study with pretes...