within communicative, interactive, and learner-centered framework of language teaching and learning, students need to learn four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing for their educational success. but of all the language skills, reading enjoys a paramount significance in so many second or foreign language academic contexts. in spite of its importance, language learners still have...

Background: Aging come with muscle weakness and musculoskeletal-related pain. This study aimed to examine the effects of core stabilization exercise on ultrasonic changes of multifidus muscle and chronic low back pain of aged-women. Methods: Twenty-nine aged-women (69±3.4 year old) with chronic low back pain were allocated into core stabilization exercise (9 women) and control (20 women) gro...

there is less published research about how teachers in efl contexts respond to students who are relatively less mature and less competent l2 writers. while writing researchers have examined various issues concerning peer and teacher response in writing-oriented classes, little research has centered on the effect of collaborative tasks particularly dictogloss on writing skills. output collaborat...

power transformers are important equipments in power systems. thus there is a large number of researches devoted of power transformers. however, there is still a demand for future investigations, especially in the field of diagnosis of transformer failures. in order to fulfill the demand, the first part reports a study case in which four main types of failures on the active part are investigate...

Comparison of the effect of shoulder and contra bevel preparation on fracture resistance of teeth restored with cast posts Dr. SA. Shayegh* - Dr. F. Gangy** *- Assistant Professor of Prosthodontics Dept. - Faculty of Dentistry – Shahed University of Medical Sciences. **- Dentist. Background and Aim: Studies concerning the effects of post-core design on fracture resistance of endodontically trea...

  Secondary electrons at ground level of simulated extensive air showers have been analyzed using a wavelet transform based technique, in order to investigate the variation of fractal dimensions of the lateral distribution of the electrons with shower energy and primary particle mass number. The fractal dimension is shown to increase with shower energy and seems to saturate to constant values n...

this study attempted to explore if teaching english collocations through two different modes of awareness-raising and input flooding has any possible differential effect on immediate retention as well as retention in a delayed assessment. it also compared the possible differential effect of teaching english collocations implicitly and explicitly on actively using the items in writing. m...

for any educational program to be successful, many factors work hand in hand. based on pervious efl studies, teachers and learners are the keys to gain achievement. granted the fact that explicit and implicit practice plays a key role in education, knowledge of it can help teachers facilitate students’ vocabulary learning. this study investigated to determine the contribution of explicit and i...