the present study adopts the perspective that metacognitive strategy instruction is bound to occur inside the classroom especially on oral tasks. accordingly, the researchers investigated whether metacognitive strategy instruction prior to oral tasks was more successful than conventional ways in improving efl learners’ oral proficiency. to this end, 56 participants studying in a language school...

the aim of the current study was to examine the effect of metacognitive instruction on efl learners’ metacognitive awareness of listening strategies, listening comprehension, and oral language proficiency. fifty students of two upper-intermediate english courses participated in the study and were sampled as the experimental and control groups. for sixteen weeks the experimental group participat...

objective: the aim of the present research was to study the effect of the metacognition training on the metacognition approaches and the magnitude of disposition towards substance abuse as the result of learning various metacognition strategies.  methods: the research method was experimental with the pre-test, post-test design. the statistical population included all of abusers male in tc, by a...

idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of muscle disorders characterized by chronic muscle inflammation and progressive muscle weakness. polymyositis (pm), dermatomyositis (dm) and inclusion body myositis (ibm) are the three major subsets based on distinct clinical and histopathological features. since the pathogenesis remains unclear, therapeutic approaches actually compr...

multiple intelligences (mi), second/foreign (l2) proficiency and gender are postulated to contribute to language learning strategies (lls). this study, first, examined whether there was any relationship between iranian efl learners’ lls, on the one hand, and their mi, l2 proficiency, on the other hand. in so doing, it explored the relationship of the overall l2 strategy as well as individual st...