in this study, the relationship between teachers’ creative and critical thinking skills and their reflectivity in teaching was investigated. to this end, three questions were raised. these questions were intended to determine whether there was a significant relationship between teachers’ creative thinking skills and their reflectivity in teaching; whether there was a significant relationship be...

Background: Impact factor is still a suitable index of evaluating effectiveness of medical journals. The present study was designed to determine the impact factor and immediacy index of Persian medical journals in order to aware authors and librarians of journals status. Materials and methods: For this analytical study, impact factor of 38 Persian medical journals (of 90 approved medical journ...

the purpose of this study was to find the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation with reading comprehension of iranian female elementary language learners. the present study is a correlational one having a descriptive design. two questionnaires, critical thinking questionnaire and self-regulation questionnaire which were valid and reliable questionnaires and four reading com...

for several years, researchers in familiarity of efl teachers with post-method and its role in second and foreign language learners’ productions have pointed out that the opportunity to plan for a task generally develops language learners’ development (ellis, 2005). it is important to mention that the critical varies in language teaching was shown is the disappearances of the concept of method ...

with the introduction of communicative language teaching, a large number of studies have concerned with students’ oral participation in language classrooms. although the importance of classroom participation is evident, some language learners are unwilling to engage in oral activities. this passivity and unwillingness to participate in language classroom discussions is known as “reticence”. rev...

abstract this study examines the effect of teaching lexical inferencing strategies on developing reading comprehension skill of iranian advanced efl learners. participants were female students of meraj and shokouh institudes of garmsar a quasi-experimental design using two intact advanced classes of efl students at meraj and shokouh institutes. as the first step, a general toefl proficiency te...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between fear of negative evaluation (fne) and communication strategies (css) among iranian efl learners. it was aimed to examine the differences in the use of communication strategies between speakers with high or low degree of fear of negative evaluation. the current study was a case study consisting of 10 english learners at...

هدف پژوهش حاضر، تحلیل استنادی پایان نامه های دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشد رشته های علوم پایه دانشگاه بیرجند از ابتدا تا پایان سال 1388 است. پژوهش از نوع کاربردی و با استفاده از روش تحلیل استنادی انجام گرفته است. روش های آماری این پژوهش، از نوع توصیفی(جداول و درصد فراوانی) و استنباطی(ضریب همبستگی پیرسون) می باشد. نتایج نشان داد میانگین استنادها در پایان نامه های چهار گرایش رشته شیمی، 74 استناد است. ه...