BACKGROUND The acquisition of new knowledge is a primary goal of residency training. Retrieving and retaining influential primary and secondary medical literature can be challenging for house officers. We set out to investigate the effect of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) drive loaded with landmark scientific articles on housestaff education in a pilot study. METHODS We created a USB syllabus t...

Learning strategy has been an important topic of English language among teachers, researchers and syllabus designers in the history teaching. occupy central role teaching learning EFL setting. This paper discusses strategies foreign Iran. The aim this research was to report results a group twenty Iranian students English, doing their post-graduation. subjects for were Persian –speaking M.A. cou...

The vital role individual differences, such as personality variation, play has long been discussed as the origin of different learning abilities. Accordingly, a cross-sectional survey and a descriptive study was conducted. Data was gathered from a sample of 150 students of both genders (107 females and 43 males) with an age range of 19-22. The translated and validated versions of the Big Five p...

the present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in iranian efl setting. sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on nelson language proficiency test. then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

We propose an annotation scheme for a corpus of negotiation dialogs that was collected in the scope of a study about the effect of negotiation attitudes and time pressure on dialog patterns.

This study was set out to shed light on the efficacy of pushed output directed by scaffolding on 41 (24 female and 17 male) upper-intermediate EFL learners’ speaking fluency and accuracy. A public version of IELTS speaking test was held to measure learners’ entrance behavior. Then, they were randomly assigned into symmetrical, asymmetrical, and control group. The experimental and control groups...

In May 2020, during the lockdown in Germany and Austria due to coronavirus pandemic, Manuel Zahn arranged have an email conversation with Christine Kopf Alejandro Bachmann. Since 2017, both been a part of project Intercultural Film Education, which is central concern exchange. beginning 2019, his co-researcher Katja Lell involved this form action research. The has brought together people instit...

Negotiation analysis is complex. It may involve multiple issues of dispute, rules of negotiation, negotiators’ strategies, interventions by third party, negotiators’ cognitions, beliefs, preferences and attitude towards risks. Negotiators may have limited attention, limited capacity to store and retrieve memory information and limited capacity to process information. As a result they rely on he...

The present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in Iranian EFL setting. Sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on Nelson language proficiency test. Then, their grammar ability was measured based ...