This research investigated effects of task types on the acquisition of English voice onset time (VOT) by Japanese university students with a short-term but intensive exposure to academic English. The data were collected from 11 Japanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) receiving English-medium instruction at a university level, 11 Japanese EFL learners enrolled in regular EFL cou...

background: sulfur mustard (sm) is an alkylating agent that has been used as a chemical warfare gas during world war ii and by iraqi army in the iran-iraq conflict between 1983 and 1988. sm can cause serious organ damages especially ocular, neurologic, coetaneous, bone marrow and pulmonary complications. on the other hand dexmedetomidine is a α2 agonist with sedative and analgesic effect with a...

The aim of this study was to examine Iranian EFL university students’ level of anxiety and their perceptions towards in-class activities during speaking courses and possible causes of apprehension. Moreover, this study investigated whether or not EFL university students’ gender differences affect their perceptions of foreign language speaking anxiety. To this end, data were collecte...

Araştırmanın temel amacı, pandemi sürecinde üniversite giriş sınavına hazırlanan bireylerde stresle başa çıkmanın incelenmesidir. Ayrıca araştırmada bazı demografik değişkenlere göre farklılaşıp farklılaşmadığı araştırılmıştır. 
 Araştırma yöntemi olarak ilişkisel tarama kullanılmıştır. 17-19 yaş aralığındaki 255’i kadın (%69.9) 110’u erkek (%30.1), toplam 365 kişiden oluşan katılımcılara ...

Background: Students have been found to report high levels of perceived stress in daily life. However, it exerts many effects on students’ health and outcome or output examinations results. Aim: To determine the association with gender body mass index (BMI) students appearing university entrance examination. Methods: It is a cross-sectional study was done find out between variables. The total s...

This study investigated the effects of partial dictation on the listening comprehension (LC) ability of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. Two homogeneous groups of intermediate EFL learners at the Abrar Language Institute in Qa’emshahr were chosen. Each group consisted of 30 female intermediate EFL students. One of the groups was chosen as the experimental group (EG), and the other as the cont...

The present study was carried out to investigate whether there is any relationship between the language learners' general language proficiency level and language learning strategies at elementary and intermediate level in Iran. The research tried to find out how learners’ proficiency level influences language learning strategies employed by learners. In addition the study seeks to identify the ...