the effect of learning strategies on the speaking ability of iranian students in the context of language institutes abstract language learning strategies are of the most important factors that help language learners to learn a foreign language and how they can deal with the four language skills specifically speaking skill effectively. acknowledging the great impact of learning strategies...

this thesis is an evaluation of poetry of sylvia plath (1932- 1963) and forough farrokhzad (1935-1967) using feminist approach and finds the positive concepts of hope, reason and strength through feminine images in their poetry. plath and farrokhzad are from different cultures and different countries but they share the same concepts and themes in their poetry. by applying feminist theory to the...

this study investigated (a) the learners’ existing reading strategy repertoire, (b) the effect of instruction in reading strategies on learners’ strategic performance, and (c) the effect of explicit instruction in top-down reading strategies on reading comprehension ability of intermediate learners. the study was conducted with 40 intermediate efl learners in two groups of experimental and cont...

Aims Physical inactivity is associated with low-grade systemic inflammation and thus increased risk of chronic disease. Beneficial effects of caffeine on adipocytes metabolism and its anti-inflammatory properties have been reported. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of 12 weeks combined training and caffeine on plasma levels of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory markers in obese ...

Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of self-healing training (the healing codes) on the sense of cohesion in substance-dependent men in 2020. Method: The present research was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population included all substance-dependent males in Isfahan in 2020. Among whom, 30 people who were wil...

abstract the primary purpose of this study was to explore the actual practices and cognitions of two groups of iranian eap teachers, i.e. language teachers and content teachers, with respect to teaching reading-comprehension and vocabulary. to this end, tehran university of medical sciences which authorizes both groups of teachers to teach eap courses was selected as the context of the study s...