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...

within communicative, interactive, and learner-centered framework of language teaching and learning, students need to learn four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing for their educational success. but of all the language skills, reading enjoys a paramount significance in so many second or foreign language academic contexts. in spite of its importance, language learners still have...

Introduction: The integration of various senses in the form of perceptual-motor activity is important in different aspects of physical, perceptual, cognitive and psychosocial development. In children with visual impairment, the reduction of visual stimuli will restrict the acquisition of motor skills, including gross motor skills, which affects their perceptual-motor skills. There are few studi...

Background & Aims: Parkinson’s disease after Alzheimer is the second most common neurological disorder and one of the most important motor effects of this disease, which is seen in its final stages, is walking disorder. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of motor imagery-walking and observation-walking on relearning walking skill in Parkinson’s disease. Materials & ...

abstract the present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of critical thinking on writing ability of 60 iranian intermediate efl learners studying at chenar language institute in khuzestan, iran. to this end, the participants of the study were selected based on their performance in an pet test, a cornell critical thinking test form x and a pre-test of writing. the participants un...

this study was an attempt to investigate and compare the effect of lexical inferencing and concept mapping on developing vocabulary retention of iranian language learners. sixty homogeneous students from different intact classes who were being taught as intermediate learners in sokhan english institute participated in this study. they were in different classes. a teacher made test as a pre-test...