nowadays enhancing critical thinking in learners is considered one of the foreign language teachers’ tasks due to its high position in foreign language classrooms. when it comes to selecting materials for language classrooms, there are obviously some criteria that teachers should apply. the present study aimed at a critical thinking based analysis of ten picture story books and ten folktales th...

Objectives Communication skill is one of the basic skills of human social life  that have a profound impact on the success of individuals, organizations, and institutions. This study is conducted to determine the status of communication skills and related factors in staff and health workers of burn and psychiatric hospital in Sari city.  Methods This descriptive-analytical study has ...

Introduction: The technique to deal with individuals or “communication skill” is one of the essential skills for faculty members and educational managers. This study was performed to evaluate the communication skills of department heads in Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on all heads of the departments in Shahid Sado...

Background: Communication is a vital and dynamic process in an organization, and effective communication can become one of the most important goals of organizations. Findings show that communication skills as one of the essential skills of managers affects employees' commitment. Organizational commitment is a factor that increases the interest and attachment of an individual to an organization....

two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

plagiarism in esl/efl learning contexts has been established as a dynamic and multi-layered phenomenon and has become a topic engaging many researchers in a heated debate in recent years. comparisons of student-generated texts with their source texts have shown that students rely on source texts in their writings and copying is a major strategy used by both l1 and l2 writers. in our country a...