this study aimed to compare some of the most important metacognitive belifes and thought control strategies among students with normal and pathological worry.the sample consisted of 146 undergratuate students selected by multiple clustering method.all subjects were asked to complete metacognitive belifes questionaire ( mcq(, penn state worry questionaure(pswq) and thought control strategies ( t...

introduction: one of the most important problems in student's education is academic failure. identifying factors that affecting academic achievement and pay attention to these factors is a stride toward success. students' academic achievement and related factors have priority in education research. this study aimed to determine the relationship between learning study strategies and ac...

following beebe, takahashi, and uliss-weltz’s (1990) classification, this study examines the relationship between power and gender of the addressees and the type and number of refusal strategies employed by sarawani baloch male university students (sbmus). fifty sbmus studying in azad university of sarawan were randomly chosen as the participants of the study. data collection was accomplished t...

iran due to its unique condition in terms of tourist attraction and because of the specific location and a variety of natural resources and human phenomena, that different regions of the country including guilan province has a typical position in terms of tourism which attracts a lot of tourists. by itself, ecological, environmental, cultural, historical and religious attraction in the north, w...

in their study, brenna and spandonaro analyzed the mobility into italian regions. in particular, it analyzes the situation of 5 regions, with very different backgrounds. with this paper, we try to better define the meaning of health mobility and to find its underlying causes. furthermore, we propose a strategy that could help in controlling mobility flows that currently are the source of health...

semantic strategies are a kind of discourse strategy that include the sum of language and cognitive moves which are used to reach an adequate goal of communication normally resulting in text comprehension by the reader or listener. here, the language user takes a number of steps in order to perform a complex task. semantic strategies in prejudiced talk have been examined extensively in western ...

although decisions or inferences we make based on test scores depend both on characteristics of test-takers and of testing sit- uations, there is just little research which has been undertaken on the effects of these characteristics on test performance (e.g., in’nami, 2006). the effect of listening strategies on listening performance is also unde- niable (vandergrift, 1997). thus, considering t...

background :this study aimed to understand the confront strategies of parents of premature infants hospitalized in nicu.   methods : this study was performed using qualitative content analysis approach. twelve participants including nine parents whose infants were hospitalized in nicu, two nurses and one physician, all selected by purposive sampling method were interviewed by a female expert oc...

the effect of motivational self-regulatory strategies on l2 learners’ achievement has scarcely been examined within the context of our country, iran. this study is concerned with examining the relationship between motivational self-regulatory strategies and their l2 reading and l2 writing achievement. it also explores the relationship of motivational self-regulatory strategies and use of langua...