Given the increasing importance of the issue of older in recent years, this was a study aimed to investigate the relationship between Practice religious beliefs and hope with elderly life satisfaction. This study was a descriptive correlation study; the statistical population included all individuals aged over 65 years, the city of Kermanshah in the 1395 year, with the simple random sampling o...

Introduction and Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the association between physical activity, religious beliefs and happiness among older women. Materials & Methods: This descriptive study was conducted among 97 women (including 46 active and 51 inactive elderly) aged more than 55 years old living in the Rasht city. Participants were recruited using simple random sampling method. Wo...

1.0 overview it seems that grammar plays a crucial role in the area of second and foreign language learning and widely has been acknowledged in grammar research. in other words, teaching grammar is an issue which has attracted much attention to itself, and a lot of teachers argue about the existence of grammar in language teaching and learning. this issue will remind us a famous sentence f...

this study investigates the strategies native english and persian speakers employ for expressing gratitude in different situations. the strategies of persian efl learners are also compared with english strategies in order to find the differences that may exist between these two languages. social status and size of imposition of the favor are social variables which are investigated in detail for...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate any relationship between high school efl teachers metaphorical understandings of their role in class and their self-efficacy beliefs. teachers metaphors were elicited through two different prompts: one picturing what they believed a language teacher should be like in class, and the other demonstrating what they are actually like in class; such...