abstract this study aimed at investigating the effect of bilingual teaching of cognate words (persian-english) on iranian upper intermediate efl learners’ knowledge of lexical development. for this purpose,100 subjects participated in this study out of which 40 learners were selected for this study and they were assigned into two groups, control and experimental. cross-language cognates (wor...

this study investigates the relationships between iranian efl teachers’ perfectionism, burnout and their teaching style preferences, and also the difference between male and female efl teachers and their teaching style preferences. to this end, a sample of 99 efl teachers (46 males and 53 females), who had years of teaching experience, were selected. the measurement scales used in this study we...

abstract the first purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of consciousness-raising (c-r) activities on learning grammatical structures (simple present tense in this case) by iranian guidance school efl learners. the second one was to investigate the effect of gender on learning the simple present tense through c-r activities and tasks. finally, this study aimed to investigate the ...

Introduction: Evaluation of the Program of development and Innovation in Medical Education in Iran needs tools that can determine the successes and shortcomings of this program. The purpose of this study was to design and psychometrically evaluate the tools for measuring the evolution of innovation in medical education.    Methods: This study was designed and conducted in two stages during the...

building on previous studies on intellectual features and learners’ grammar learning, the present study aimed at investigating whether intelligence criterion had any impact on efl learners’ english grammar learning across two intelligence levels. in the current study, the participants were divided into two experimental and control groups by administration of raven i.q. test. this led to the for...

Background and Aim: Hypertension is the strongest independent and modifiable factor for heart failure, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular accident and chronic kidney disease worldwide, which affects the quality of life of patients. In order to accurately assess the quality of life of patients, it is necessary to design a special questionnaire consisting of different dimensions in order to ...