Noticing Differences between Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Extending Agran, Snow, and Swaner's Discussion

Noticing Differences between Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Extending Agran, Snow, and Swaner’s Discussion

An Investigation of Gender Differences Between Women’s and Men’s Informal Discussion in Iranian EFL Context

The language used by women and men differ in all speech communities. In order to examine some of these variations, the present study aimed to investigate the differences in an informal written discourse. For this purpose, a comparison between men’s and women’s informal language was made regarding length of utterances, questions, intensifiers, and hedges. Results revealed that men employed highe...

E-Learning in postsecondary education.

Over the past decade postsecondary education has been moving increasingly from the classroom to online. During the fall 2010 term 31 percent of U.S. college students took at least one online course. The primary reasons for the growth of e-learning in the nation's colleges and universities include the desire of those institutions to generate new revenue streams, improve access, and offer student...

بررسی رابطه مدیریت زمان با استرس شغلی درمعلمان تربیت بدنی و غیرتربیت بدنی شهر مشهد the relationship between time management and job stress of physical education teachers and non- physical education teachers mashhad

پژوهش حاضر با هدف بررسی رابطه مدیریت زمان و استرس شغلی انجام گرفت. بدین منظور از بین 18254 معلم شاغل در اداره آموزش و پرورش شهر مشهد در سال تحصیلی(89- 88 ) تعداد 100 نفرمعلم تربیت بدنی و 375 نفر معلم غیرتربیت بدنی از طریق نمونه گیری طبقه ای متناسب با حجم انتخاب شدند. آزمودنی ها پرسشنامه مدیریت زمان با پایایی 86/0 و پرسشنامه استرس شغلی، با پایایی74/0را تکمیل نمودند. در این تحقیق به منظور تجزیه و...

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...