this study was designed to find which one of the three different presentations, i.e. input, input-output, and output-input, will be more effective in iranian efl learners' vocabulary acquisitions. to this end, first 54 out of 64 female students, aged from 19 to 23 years, with an average of 21, were selected out of starter-level efl learners at the university of tarbiat moalem in bandar abb...

The study was designed to investigate the influence of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on hearing threshold, and to compare the relative influence of Transcendental Meditation and rest. A group of 29 volunteers aged between 16 and 6/ were tested, all of whom were practising TM regularly. The experiment was conducted in two phases: 15 subjects rested in the first phase and meditated...

Purpose The pursuit of wellness can be a challenge for many college students who are under constant pressures to succeed academically as well as socially. Low levels of psychological wellness can compromise students’ concentration and academic performance and, in extreme cases, can lead them to contemplate suicide, making wellness initiatives a critical consideration. Mindfulness meditation int...

The New Oxford Dictionary of English includes an acceptation of the adjective “agonistic” that makes it appropriate to describe the conception of education in Nietzsche ́s writings from the so called “period of youth” or “first period”, that is, the period which ended in 1876 with the publication of the fourth and last untimely meditation, entitled Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. This acceptation, w...

The study was designed to investigate the influence of the Transcendental Meditation technique on simple reaction time and to compare the relative influence ofTranscendental Meditation and ordinary rest. Two groups of25 college-age subjects were individually tested four times on four days within a two-week period. Group I (meditctors) were tested with 100 trials both before and after a 20-minut...

Title of dissertation: MAGNETIC AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF Fe–Ga USING KERR MICROSCOPY AND NEUTRON SCATTERING Chaitanya Mudivarthi, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Alison B. Flatau and Professor Manfred Wuttig Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Fe–Ga alloys belong to a class of smart materials called magnetostrictive materials. Magnetostrictive mat...

the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...

this study aims to compare the effects of four types of ffi on second language vocabulary learning. to do so, the study adopted a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design, including five groups, each receiving a distinct treatment. the participants were 80 fourth-grade male students ranging in age from 17 to 19. before the treatment phase, the participants took a researcher-made test of vocab...