abstract the aim of the present study is to explore the impact of the cognitive reading strategy instruction on learners reading self-efficacy and their reading achievement. in order to fulfill this purpose, from 120 participants, 90 intermediate efl learners as an experimental group were chosen from three different educational settings namely, yazd university, yazd science and art un...

‏‎in this research,the authors conducted a study comparing two groups of male and female english language learners studying in a elt institute,in terms of their performance on their achievement test including listening comprehension,vocabulary,grammar,and reading comprehension and found no significant difference between the group except in listening comprehension part of the test in which the f...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of task-based instruction of vocabulary on the receptive and oral productive acquisition of english vocabulary and compare the results with those obtained from the traditional method. the method and procedure applied in this study was as follows: after the implementation of opt, a group of sixty female students were chosen. the stu...

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...

abstract the main purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was any significant difference between the speaking achievement of learners who were trained by means of consciousness raising of sociolinguistic skills and that of learners who were trained without the above mentioned task. the participants of this study consist of 60 intermediate level students participating languag...

the ability to speak two languages in the world is a remarkable achievement. there is a good reason to believe that bilingualism is the norm for the majority of people in the world because 70% of the earth’s population are supposed to be bilingual or multilingual. various investigations have shown that the native language impacts foreign word recognition, and this influence is adapted by the de...

two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

‏‎for the first time nakayama introduced qf-ring. in 1967 carl. faith and elbert a. walker showed that r is qf-ring if and only if each injective right r-module is projective if and only if each injective left r-modules is projective. in 1987 s.k.jain and s.r.lopez-permouth proved that every ring homomorphic images of r has the property that each cyclic s-module is essentialy embeddable in dire...

a novel acrylic acid-functionalized fe3o4 magnetic nanoparticle with a core-shell structure was developed for utilization as a heterogeneous organosuperacid in chemical transformations. the structural, surface, and magnetic characteristics of the nanosized catalyst were investigated by various techniques such as transmission electron microscopy (tem), thermogravimetric analysis (tga), and ft-ir...