Improving listening comprehension skill is one of the urgent contemporary educational needs in the field of second language acquisition and metacognitive strategies are proved to help learners manage and self-regulate their listening and overcome deficiencies. Although metacognitive instruction is underscored by previous research, task-based metacognitive instruction is seriously underresearche...

This paper reports findings from two empirical studies on students’ reported use of self-regulatory writing strategies and the relationships with their performance in a secondary school English as foreign language (EFL) context. Study One adopted factorial design using exploratory confirmatory factor analysis to validate inferences uses Self-Regulatory Writing Strategy Questionnaire; Two explor...

The current study presents findings from a mixed-methods study of investigating the self-regulatory role of private speech (self-talk) on students’ translation quality. The aim of the study was to validate the adapted version of a self-verbalization questionnaire. The construct validity and reliability of the scale were supported by the CFA which revealed that all items reached the acceptable f...

Impulsive aggression (IA) is a relatively common phenomenon in the general nonpatient population and IA, among other forms of impaired self regulatory behavior, is common sequelae of traumatic brain injury. Impaired self regulatory behavior has been associated with dysfunction of orbital frontal cortex. This study examined strategy development and usage in a group of survivors of traumatic brai...

Regulatory T cells engage in the maintenance of immunological self-tolerance by actively suppressing self-reactive lymphocytes. Little is known, however, about the molecular mechanism of their development. Here we show that Foxp3, which encodes a transcription factor that is genetically defective in an autoimmune and inflammatory syndrome in humans and mice, is specifically expressed in natural...

Section 1: Introduction . Industrialization has an important role to play in the process of economic development. The importance of industrialisation as a means for achieving rapid growth and prosperity had been recognised in the development strategy of independent India. The bold program of industrialization in India was started with the second five-year plan by realizing the need of the econo...