this study was designed to investigate the effects of gender and schema-based pre-reading activities on the iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension. the sample consisted of 60 male and female students studying at second-grade high school in abhar city. two reading passages (“charles dickens and the little children”, and “hic, hic, hic”) were randomly selected from second-grade english textb...

the present study attempted to investigate the emergence of especial skill in shooting with air gun at two skill levels (skilled, novice). the population studied here included all male and female shooters from the city of semnan. the study was conducted on a sample of 40 shooters, consisting of two groups of women with the mean age of 21.33±2.26 and two groups of men with the mean age of 23.44±...

this study was designed to investigate the effect of grammar and vocabulary pre-teaching, as two types of pre-reading activities, on the iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension from a schema–theoretic perspective. the sample consisted of 90 female students studying at pre-university centers of isfahan.  the subjects were randomly divided into three equal-in-number groups. they participated ...

We recently proposed the attention schema theory, a novel way to explain the brain basis of subjective awareness in a mechanistic and scientifically testable. Definition: Schema theory is a branch of cognitive science concerned with how the brain A schema is an organized unit of knowledge for a subject or event. We recently proposed the attention schema theory, a novel way to explain the brain ...