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Efficient prenatal care: fewer visits, fewer sonograms.

In this issue of ecp, Evidence Matters focuses on obstetric care and how it might be done more efficiently. The goal of prenatal care is to ensure delivery of a healthy baby to a healthy mother. The standard regimen of care that most obstetric providers have been trained to use is intense—14 visits during a 40-week pregnancy and a myriad of screening tests. Many recommended aspects of prenatal ...

Further Comparison between ATNoSFERES and XCSM

the relationship between critical thinking and reading strategies

during the process of reading, sometimes learners use ineffective and inefficient strategies and some factors may influence their use of strategies. perhaps critical thinking is one of these factors. this study aims to identify those categories of reading strategies that are mostly used by iranian efl learners and to see if there is any significant relationship between the critical thinking abi...

the relationship between collocational competence and listening comprehension

پس از پیدایش روش تدریس ‏‍tpr توسط جیمز اشر که توجه و تآکید بسیاری بر مهارت شنیداری داشت زبانشناسان همواره در صدد یافتن راههایی برای بهبود این مهارت در زبان آموزان می باشند. از طرفی جی-آر-فرث که از پیشگامان زبانشناسی می باشد بر تآثیر لغات و بویژه گروه کلمات که اغلب در گفتار با هم می آیند (هم آیی کلمات)تأکید بسیار کرده است. به این دلیل و به منظوربررسی رابطه بین این دو عامل یعنی درک شنیداری و دانش...

the relationship between topic familiarity and guessing lexical meaning and retention among iranian efl learners

the skill of reading in english as a foreign language is an important and challenging one which is affected both by linguistic and extra linguistic factors. since vocabularies are part and parcel of every reading comprehension text, knowing enough vocabulary always facilitates this process. however, guessing strategy as one of the most important strategies has consistently ignored by language l...