the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between motivation and test preparation strategies (tpss) used by iranian pre-university students in their preparation period for the university entrance exam (uee). due to the importance of uee in iran, this study also attempted to show its impact on these two important variables. to this end, 100 pre-university students in an iranian p...

language learning courseware has been receiving growing attention by english educators since its advent. a variety of softwares have been designed by software designers and resorted to by language educators to supplement language textbooks. this experimental study investigated how the application of computerized version of language textbooks and the reception of the entire course through comput...

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...

learning-oriented assessment seeks to emphasise that a fundamental purpose of assessment should be to promote learning. it mirrors formative assessment and assessment for learning processes. it can be defined as actions undertaken by teachers and / or students, which provide feedback for the improvement of teaching and learning. it also contrasts with equally important measurement-focused appro...

الف. موضوع و طرح مسئله (اهمیت موضوع و هدف): چنانچه از مشاهدات محقق بر می آید تأکید معلمان در خواندن متون انگلیسی بر سطح زبانی متن می باشد. این در حالی است که زبان اصولاً پدیده بسیار پیچیده تری می باشد؛ چرا که یکی از توانائیهای خاص انسان پیچیده در اجتماع پیچیده می باشد. نساجی (2003) معتقد است که خواندن متن شامل مجموعه ای از مهارت های زبانی و غیرزبانی می باشد. مجموعه ای متشکل از سطح خرد شکافتن لغ...

this study was intended to analyze the listening tapescripts of the elementary and pre-intermediate levels of total english textbooks from the pragmatic dimension of language functions and speech acts in order to see whether the listening tasks are pragmatically informative or not. for this purpose, 8 conversations from the two books were selected randomly, and then, the two pragmatic models of...

تحقیق عملی از طریق ارائه سه متن رشته مهند سی عمران در سه شکل اصلی ( دست نخورده) ، ساده شده و مفصل به 359 دانشجوی رشته مهندسی عمران انجام شد و از طریق یک آزمون چهار گزینه ای 16 سوالی میزان درک مطلب مورد سنجش قرار گرفت. تحلیل داده ها از طریق آزمونهای تحلیل واریانس (one-way anova) و آزمون تعقیبی شف (post hoc test) صورت گرفت. نتایج نشان داد ساده سازی و شرح و تفصیل واژگان هر دو در ارتقاء درک مطلب مو...

in recent years, there has been a growing interest among researchers to investigate the relationship betweenteacher self-efficacy and classroom behavior management, especially students misbehavior. therefore, this study aimed to comparatively investigate english and arabic teachers’ use of different behavior managementstrategies, their self-efficacy, and their success in an iranian context. th...