The aim of the study was to investigate predicting of critical thinking based on emotional creativity and its components in university students. One hundred fifty six Shiraz university students were selected using convenient sampling method. Emotional Creativity and Critical Thinking Questionnaires were used for collecting data. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and multiple regression ...

to explore the idea the investingation proposed, aimed at finding whether the performances of the population of iranians students studying english in an efl context are consistent in l1 and l2 writing taks and whether there is a cross-linguistic transfer in this respect. in this regard the subjects were instructed to write four compositions-two in english and two in farsi-which consisted of an ...

The purpose of this research was survey of relation between hidden curriculum components and dimensions of students’ tendency to critical thinking. Methodology of the research was descriptive correlation. The sample included 381 students of Shahed University and two indicators of measurement of university hidden curriculum dimensions and standard index of tendency to California students’ critic...

Introduction: Spirituality and spiritual intelligence can be effective in all spheres of human life such as the spheres of work and social activities of human beings. The present research was conducted to investigate the effect of spiritual intelligence on the quality of nursing care in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences hospitals. Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducte...

the present research was conducted to explore the effect of employing two language teaching approaches, i.e. schema-based instruction (sbi) and translation-based instruction (tbi), on vocabulary knowledge, structure and reading comprehension ability of forty one female students learning english in grade one senior high school in rivash, kuhsorkh, iran. while sbi focuses on schemata, i.e. words ...

abstract this study evaluates the iranian pre-university english textbook in terms of needs, objectives, content, and methodology. the study was designed on the qualitative- quantitative survey basis using interviews and questionnaires, a researcher-made textbook evaluation checklist and a needs analysis questionnaire. the textbook evaluation questionnaire was used in this study to elicit the ...