This article reports on selected findings from a qualitative study of factors affecting the academic success of Black male students in the community college. Data from this study was collected through semistructured interviews with 28 participants at Desert Valley Community College (SVCC) (a pseudonym). SVCC is a midsized institution located in the Southwestern United States. Findings address t...

The sway of the pendulum in language pedagogy towards conscious learning processes marks the paramount role of metalinguistic awareness. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to compare the impact of teacher-oriented vs. learner-generated metalinguistic awareness activities on Iranian TEFL students’ writing accuracy. Sixty participants in three intact classes were randomly assigned a...

for a ∈ mn, the schur multiplier of a is defined as s a(x) =a ◦ x for all x ∈ mn and the spectral norm of s a can be stateas ∥s a∥ = supx,0 ∥a ∥x ◦x ∥ ∥. the other norm on s a can be definedas ∥s a∥ω = supx,0 ω(ω s( ax (x ) )) = supx,0 ωω (a (x ◦x ) ), where ω(a) standsfor the numerical radius of a. in this paper, we focus on therelation between the norm of schur multiplier of product of matric...

Background: Worldwide, about 350 million people are infected with Hepatitis B virus (HBV), most of them in Asia. Up to 1 million of them die due to these sequels annually. Few studies concerned about HBV awareness of Iranians young people. As health education programs should be based on awareness of target group about the disease, we conducted a national survey to evaluate health literacy and v...

abstractacquiring vocabulary, as a significant and challenging part of language learning process, has always been consistent with reading. in this study, the researchers examined the effect of enhanced extensive reading on efl learners’ incidental acquisition of english vocabulary, with specific focus on phrasal verbs. twenty five homogenized participants were selected and divided into two grou...