abstract recent studies suggest that prelistening activities play an important role in the development of listening comprehension (e.g. long 1990;chiang and dunkel 1992; schmidt-rinehart 1994; jensen and hansen 1995; robinson et al., 1995; buck, 1995; foster and skehan,1996; teng 1996; robinson, 2001; chang and read 2006). in line with previous studies and to shed light on a new aspect of sche...

The present study was to investigate Effectiveness of positivist psychotherapy on resilience, mental happiness and hardiness in the mothers suffering from type 2 diabetes. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the present study included all mothers with diabetes in Tehran in 2017. Non-probable convenient samplin...

Introduction: Diabetes has irreversible effects on physical, psychological, personal, family relationships and perceptions of health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment based group therapy on psychological resilience and family patterns of women with type 2 diabetes. Methods: The design of this study was quasi-experimental with pre-test and ...

The Comorbidity of diabetes with psychological disorders negatively intensifies the symptoms of diabetic patients, reduces their response to treatment, decreases their life quality and consequently increases their mortality rate. The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of group training based on acceptance and commitment in improving quality of life and reducing anxiety...

‏‎this study investigated the effect of prior knowledge on the listening comprehension performance of fl learners. twenty students, male and female, drawn from the two intact groups of the senior and junior english language and literature majors were chosen as the participants of this study . the two groups were then randomly assigned into the experimental and control group. the experimental gr...