Creative Writing (CW) is an important skill that helps students achieve progress in learning English as a Foreign Language (FL). It also them improve fluency, motivation, confidence, and creativity. However, most for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses focus on technical English, CW under-utilized to practise. As result, this study examines university students’ perceptions of ESP the process enhanc...

background alzheimer's disease (ad) is the most common type of dementia. patients with ad have impaired semantic knowledge of nouns and verbs as well as the ability to verb retrieval. objectives the aim of this study was to compare verbal fluency and verb fluency and to investigate the association between severity and types of fluency (verbal-verb) in patients with ad. patients and methods this...

For doctoral students, publishing in peer-reviewed journals is a task many face with anxiety and trepidation. The world of publishing, from choosing a journal, negotiating with editors and navigating reviewers’ responses is a bewildering place. Looking in from the outside, it seems that successful and productive academic writers have knowledge that is inaccessible to novice scholars. While ther...

The distribution of item generation/time in the performance of elderly on verbal fluency (VF) remains unknown. Objective: To analyze the number of items, their distribution and impact of the first quartile on the final test result. Methods: 31 individuals performed the tests (average age=74 years; schooling=8.16 years). Results: The number of items produced in the first quartile differed from t...