previous studies regarding teachers’ beliefs have revealed that teachers’ beliefs have influence on their classroom practices. the current study aimed to investigate the effect of teachers’ beliefs about teaching reading strategies on students’ motivation and success in reading comprehension in the context of english teaching as a foreign language in high schools of mazandaran, iran. data were ...

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of social skills training on social development and family performance in slow-paced students. Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test design with experimental and control groups. The statistical population included 40 students of Simorgh Exceptional School. 20 students were selected by convenience...

abstract the current study sets out 1) to investigate the strategic needs of iranian efl learners in reading literary and non-literary texts; 2) to shed some light on the differences between reading literary and non-literary texts; and 3) to specify the differences in the interaction of participants with texts while reading two literary subgenres ( i.e., short story and literary essays). to ...

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of life skills training on personal-social adjustment and psychological capital of high school students in Tehran during 1397. Methodology: The method used in this study was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of data collection, a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with control group and random samplin...

Aim: The purpose of this study was designing guideline of developing functional reading texts for mentally retarded students in primary school. Methods: This study is exploratory in both documentary and field took place. 100 parentsand 100 teachers of students with intellectual disability and 20 Professionals Exceptional Children were recruited using multiple cluster sampling and convenience sa...

This research was conducted for the Analysis of the effectiveness of Assertiveness training Group on the increase of Elementary student's social skills suffering from Hearing Damage in the city of Bookan. First, by using the social skills test, those students having low social skills whose scores were lower than 100 were recognized. These individuals were selected as samples and then were rand...

abstract the variables affecting the nature of reading comprehension can be classified into two general categories: reader’s variables, and text variables (alderson, 2000). despite the wave of research on vocabulary knowledge as reader’s variable, the role of this knowledge in c-test as a text-dependent test and its interaction with lexical cohesion of the test as a text feature has remained a...