this study aimed at examining the effects of iranian efl learners’ anxiety, ambiguity tolerance, and gender on their preferences for corrective feedback (cf, henceforth). the effects were sought with regard to the necessity, frequency, and timing of cf, types of errors that need to be treated, types of cf, and choice of correctors. seventy-five iranian efl students, twenty-eight males and forty...

the present study was carried on to investigate the use of face-keeping strategies in reaction to complaints by male and female in two different cultures, persian and american english. to see if apology strategies are affected by cultural, contextual preferences and gender of interlocutors in two distinct languages of persian and american english. the hypotheses to be tested were 1) ifids, acce...

Organizational citizenship behaviors in the workplace are among the most important positive behaviors. This has attracted the attention of researches during the past decades. Based on the latest evidence, these behaviors may lose their voluntary and optional nature because they are considered as positive and useful and therefore there may be too much emphasis placed upon them. In this study it ...

psychometric properties of automatic thoughts questionnaire and investigation of the relationship between automatic thoughts with cognitive emotion regulation and self regulated learning

the purpose of this study was to examine the english language needs of medical students at tehran university of medical sciences . analysis of the needs took place for three groups: 320 undergraduate students, 30 postgraduate students and 20 university instructors. a triangulation approach to collect data was used in which a combination of the quantitative (using the questionnaires) and qualita...

Abstract Background & Aim: Organizational citizenship behavior has an important role in providing effective products and services for internal and external customers of the organization and by improving effective use of resources it may lead to the improvement of functions and the increase in productivity. The objective of this research is to study the impact of job involvement on the organiza...

Background and Aim: Problems such as hypothyroidism and aggressiveness may lead the organizations to reduced and seek to increase further behaviors that have the benefits for organization, such as productivity. One of the factors that produce productivity organization is organizational citizenship behavior. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the component of organiz...