this study investigates the cohesive devices used in the textbook of english for the students of psychology. the research questions and hypotheses in the present study are based on what frequency and distribution of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are. then, to answer the questions all grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading comprehension passages from 6 units of 21units th...

abstract over the past two decades, applied linguists and language teachers have shown a great deal of interest in genre-centered approaches , mainly because of pedagogic concerns . this has been due to the need to help non-native readers enhance their ability to understand academic and scientific texts. following swales’ (1981) works on genre analysis, studies of different sections of resear...

learning-oriented assessment seeks to emphasise that a fundamental purpose of assessment should be to promote learning. it mirrors formative assessment and assessment for learning processes. it can be defined as actions undertaken by teachers and / or students, which provide feedback for the improvement of teaching and learning. it also contrasts with equally important measurement-focused appro...

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...

  Usually, learning disorder impedes any progress in gaining academic skills. A huge population of students having learning disorder is, academically behind the same age students. Nearly, a third of them have failed. On the other hand, academic problem is one of the warning signs of academic Failure. Therefore, by detecting those students having learning disorder and taking appropriate measures...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the mediatory role of academic motivation goal orientation in the relationship between goal orientation and metacognitive reading strategies. The participants were 200 of girl Pre service Teachers selected from Yazd Campus Fatemeh Alzahra through Simple random sampling method and answered goal orientation questionnaire (AGS), academic motivation q...

abstract objectives gradual increase length and complexity of utterance (gilcu) therapy method is a form of operant conditioning. this type of treatment is very precise and controlled that is done in 54 steps in 3 speech situations consisted of monologue, reading and conversation. this study aimed to examine the effects of gilcu treatment method on reduction of speech dysfluency of school-age...

the following question poped up: is there any relationship between iranian high school efl learners reading comprehension and listening comprehension? then the following null hypothesis (ho) was developed to the test the above, mentioned question. "there is no relationship between high school efl learners reading comprehension and listening comprehension. for nearly 16 weeks, the experimental g...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of instruction through debate on male and female efl learners’ reading comprehension, to examine the differences between the performance of male and female participants on the five dimensions of cctst including analysis, evaluation, inference, deductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning, and to examine the differences between male ...

اغلب تحقیقات انجام شده در حوزه ی " یادگیری مشارکتی " نشان ازتاثیرات مثبت آن بر موفقیت تحصیلی ، افزایش دانش و توانش زبانی، انگیزه ، تعاملات میان دانش آموزان(مهارتهای گروهی و پذیرش افراد با سطح درسی ضعیفتردر گروه)، و هم چنین علاقه به محیط آموزشی دارد .البته لازم به ذکر است که تحقیقاتی هم حاکی از عدم تاثیر این نوع یادگیری وجود دارد. بر اساس این پیشینه ، پژوهش حاضر به بررسی تاثیر "مدل یادگیری با هم...