This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institutes of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders (NIDCD) grant 5 RO1 DC03731, “Linguistic Processing in Specific Language Delay.” This article considers how information regarding processing limitations in children with specific language impairment (SLI) might be extended to assist in early identification of tod...

BACKGROUND Although physician-scientists generally contribute to the scientific enterprise by providing a breadth of knowledge complementary to that of other scientists, it is a challenge to recruit, train, and retain physicians in a research career pathway. OBJECTIVE To assess the outcomes of a novel program that combines graduate coursework and research training with subspecialty fellowship...

the present study is an investigation into the relationship between iranian efl teachers’ degree of creativity and language learners’ academic achievement. to this end, six female english teachers and 81 male and female advanced english learners from a private language institute were asked to take part in the study. data were collected through torrance test of creative thinking (ttct) and stude...

This study aimed to investigate sources of motivation of English language teachers in Iranian public and private language schools. To this end, a Language Teacher Motivation Source (LTMS) questionnaire was developed on the basis of the related literature. The LTMS examined four sources of motivation, i. e., extrinsic (economic, social, emotional, educational), intrinsic, altruistic, and subject...