this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...

The managed recharge of groundwater is a stable and newfound technique which has already produced successful results and is expected to solve many of the problems of water resources, particularly in arid and semiarid areas. Artificial recharge of aquifers is considered as a strategy for the improvement of groundwater resources and their storage capacity to compensate for the damages inflicted o...

this thesis attempts to measure learning styles, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension. in order to address this issue, a quantitative study was conducted on some randomly selected intact students at ferdowsi university. these two groups were assigned as they were undergraduate (ba=91) and graduate (ma =74) students; they were all aged betwe...

the present study was an attempt to determine the types of motivation and levels of foreign language learning anxiety among efl students studying at azad and state universities in kermanshah and to determine the relationship between these two factors and language proficiency and gender. to this end, the foreign language learning motivation scale, by deci and ryan )1985(, were administered to 12...

the present study was conducted to investigate the role of summary in teaching grammar process on pre-university students. to this end, 48 male pre-university students in semnan were participants. they were math class that we called experimental group and science class as control group. in order to make sure there was no significant difference in proficiency level of two groups. a pre-test wa...

Groundwater is a valuable resource both in the Iran and throughout the world. Drought as a natural and inevitable phenomenon, frequently occur in the different regions of the world, especially in the hot and dry area. It lead to economical, social, and environmental damages. Drought should decrease groundwater recharge. In main aim of this study was to investigate the effects of drought on grou...

Accurate and reliable simulation and prediction of the groundwater level variation is significant and essential in water resources management of a basin. Models such as ANNs and Support Vector Regression (SVR) have proved to be effective in modeling nonlinear function with a greater degree of accuracy. In this respect, an attempt is made to predict monthly groundwater level fluctuations using M...