apart from other aspects, desert is a natural environment and is one of the appealing terrestrial elements. putting its symbolic and fictional senses aside, the term “desert” bears mystic sense more than material sense. in addition to the worlds materialistic experiences, desert has attracted the attention of writers because it creates a kind of inner experience, which returns the individual in...

Objective: Prediction about the advance of programs for achieving to goal is revealed in hope and failure sense is revealed in hopelessness. Therefore, the aim of this research has been study of psychometric characteristics of children hopelessness scale (Kazdin, Rodgers & Colbus, 1986) in Iranian children. Method: Research statistical sample was composed of 482 female and male students of e...

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the effect of Quranic stories on school-age children’s self-concept. Methods: This study was conducted as a pretest-posttest experimental design on 60 primary school children aged 7-12 years old in the city of Gonbad-e-Kavos in 2017, who were assigned to two groups of intervention and control through simple random sampling. The intervention group r...

Background: The studies have shown that mental health and irrational beliefs play an important role in family and career, and it seems that self is influenced by the working conditions of teachers. This study aimed at comparing mental health and irrational believes of ordinary and special primary schools teachers of Yazd province. Method: The population includes all teachers of ordinary and ...

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of podcasts as a learning and teaching tool on iranian efl learners’ motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. the study also investigated the learners’ perception towards listening to podcasts and examined whether the learners were likely to accept podcasts. out of fifty-five intermediate learners studying e...

Social anxiety disorder is one of the most common anxiety disorders in childhood. This research has been conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of storytelling on social anxiety in male elementary school students with the action research approach. The present study was a semi-experimental study with the pretest-posttest and a control group. The statistical population of the p...