abstract the present study aims at analyzing efl learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. a mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. in the qualitative analysis, iranian efl learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for voca...

Accepted 26 February 2009 Handing over responsibility for patients has always been part of medical practice. Definitions emphasise transfer of responsibility to ensure patient safety and the available literature tends to follow this line (see box 1). Handover is much more than this, however. It is a key event where teams meet, have the opportunity to communicate, support each other and learn. T...

Relations between parental reports of children’s interests related to science and opportunities for science learning were examined longitudinally in 192 children between ages 4 and 7 years. Science interests were tracked during 1-year periods (ages 4–5, 5–6, and 6–7) and were more prevalent among boys, particularly prior to age 6 years. Gender differences did emerge in terms of frequencies of o...

literature review indicates that systemic agricultural human resource development interventions are rarely carried out in developing countries, and limited knowledge exists about how successful they are. learning transfer is the generalization of material learned, such as skills acquired or knowledge gained in training, back to the job. the main aim of this study was to analyze factors influenc...

Climate change and natural disasters, the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical shocks have increasingly disrupted school education around world in recent years. Whether leading to closures, destructions or repeated interruptions students’ learning experiences, these external translated into lost opportunities for students. In this context, systems face heightened pressure become ever more resilient,...

Initiation, Response, and Feedback(IRF) sequences are the most frequent interaction network in any classroom contexts. IRF sequences have been examined profusely in previous studies and were reported to be negatively correlated with participation opportunities (Kasper, 2006; Cazden, 2001; Ellis, 1994).In all these studies, all contingent factors of any classroom context which might influence in...