according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

this studyinvestigated therelations between examinees’ academic knowledge and theirperformanceonreading section of ielts and toefl (ibt) through using generalizabilitytheory. g-theory was utilized to investigate the effects of subtest, test items, participants and academic background on the reliability of ielts and toefl (ibt) score. tosamplethe subjectsofthissurvey,a placement testwasadministe...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ class management practices with students’ self- regulated learning and academic self-efficacy. in this study relating to the management class, three dimensions, (training management, people management and behavior management) and three style (interventionist, interactionist and non-interventionist) was considered. r...

this study explored reading strategy use of tefl ma students when they read academic research articles in english. the purpose of this study was to investigate how this group of readers typically approaches reading academic research articles related to their field of study, and also what they do in reading such research articles. the aim of the present study was bilateral. first, the researcher...

the purpose of this two-phase, sequential mixed methods study was to find out whether there were any decencies between male and female ma students’ theses regarding the common features of academic writing such as syntactic complexity, means of integrating cited information, and organizing arguments. i chose 10 male written theses and 15 female written theses in tefl and linguistics. in the firs...

this study tried to explore disciplinary variations of web blurbs across soft and hard knowledge fields on the one hand, and to illustrate how academic publishers exploit interactional metadiscourse devices in move structure of their blurbs on the other.

the construct of self-efficacy has received increasing attention in research over the past two decades. many studies have been carried out 1.3 significance of the study this study has pedagogical implications since improving students’ self- efficacy and autonomy is important for promoting actual performance on classroom academic tasks. in academic settings, it has been shown that self-effi...

تحقیق حاضر به منظور بررسی کارآیی بین دو روش تدریس زبان انگلیسی با اهداف دانشگاهی به نامهای تدریس گروهی و تدریس انفرادی انجام شد. بدین منظور، سه کلاس انگلیسی با اهداف دانشگاهی مربوط به دانشجویان رشته جغرافیا، کامپیوتر و فقه و حقوق به روش گروهی توسط یک مدرس زبان انگلیسی و یک مدرس درس تخصصی در استان یزد در طول ترم پاییز سال تحصیلی 1390-1389 تدریس گردید. همزمان، سه کلاس زبان انگلیسی دیگر با اهداف د...