Introduction: The positive effects of milk consumption among young people include increasing bone density, reducing the incidence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes and improving body mass index (BMI). However, less than 40% of 20- 29 year-old young adults often receive daily adequate amounts of milk. This study aimed to determine the role of attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavi...

current studies in second language (l2) learning have revealed the positive role of corrective feedback (cf) in both oral and written forms in different language features. the present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of both direct and indirect written corrective feedback (wcf) on the use of grammatical collocations in l2 writing. the study also sought to examine whether the effec...

as polysemy is encountered frequently in english as foreign language. fl learners’ ability to disambiguate polysemous verbs becomes critical to their comprehension in the target language. this thesis, accordingly, investigated how iranian efl learners achieved comprehension of english polysemous verbs by using three different types of cues: (1) elaborated context, (2) semantic frames, and (...

the present study aimed at exploring cognitions of iranian english teachers within the context of english for academic purposes (eap). to this end, the cognitions of two groups of eap teachers with respect to their pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and their sense of professional identity (pi) were probed. two language teachers and two content instructors who had at least five years of eap te...

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...

نیاز سنجی دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشد ایرانی در رابطه با زبان تخصصی: مطالعه ای در دانشگاه اصفهان هدف از این مطالعه بررسی نیازهای یادگیری زبان خارجی دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشد دانشجویان دانشگاه اصفهان در رشته های زیست شناسی، روانشناسی، تربیت بدنی، حسابداری و فلسفه ی غرب میباشد. در مجموع 80 دانشجودر پنج رشته ی متفاوت از دانشگاه اصفهان در این پژوهش شرکت داشتند.علاوه بر این هشتاد دانشجو،25 استاد دروس ت...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between teachers’ immediacy behaviors and iranian students’ willingness to talk in english classes. analysis of the results from willingness to talk scale represents a relatively high level of willingness to talk in english classrooms among iranian language learners. the total mean score of students’ willingness to talk was 66.3 ou...

abstract the current study set out to address the issue as to whether the implementation of portfolio assessment would give rise to iranian pre-intermediate efl learner autonomy. participants comprised 60 female in pre-intermediate level within the age range of 16-28.they were selected from among 90 language learners based on their scores on language proficiency test -key english test. then, t...