according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...

This study aimed to identify the factors influencing the faculty and graduate students' knowledge-based entrepreneurship from the point of view of experts and examine the status from the viewpoint of the stakeholders. This research has a quantitative and qualitative approach. In order to collect information in a qualitative method, a semi-structured interview has been used and a quantitative me...

this study investigated the potential role of age in inductive and deductive grammar learning among iranian foreign language learners. the experimental population consisted of our randomly selected samples including two groups of children (with age of exposure to english within 8-13), and two groups of adults (with age of exposure to english within 11-13). thus, the comparison was between ch...

  Background: Influenced by several factors, c ollaboration among nurses is a complex and multifaceted process. Considering constructive effects of this process, it is important to identify its motivational factors. This study aimed to investigate motivational factors for collaboration among nurses.   Methods: The data were collected through unstructured and in-depth interviews with 18 purposiv...

the present study is an attempt to investigate the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving english abstract vocabulary recall. to achieve this goal, a multiple choice language proficiency test of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students whose age ranged between 17 to 22 and they were studying en...

Background & Aim: Personality traits and motivational structure are important and influential factors in adolescent decision making. In this regard, the adolescent's perception of parenting style has an important role in his/her orientations. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of perception of parenting style in relationship between motivational structure and personality trai...

this study aims to investigate value conflicts between mothers and their daughters among families and influential factors on this conflict in yazd city. this study adopted a survey method and a questionnaire was used that its validity through construct validity (factor analysis) and its reliability by cronbach alpha were measured. the population of this study consists of all yazdian families th...

the present study was an attempt to determine the types of motivation and levels of foreign language learning anxiety among efl students studying at azad and state universities in kermanshah and to determine the relationship between these two factors and language proficiency and gender. to this end, the foreign language learning motivation scale, by deci and ryan )1985(, were administered to 12...