PURPOSE To assess the accuracy of the Preterm Oral Feeding Readiness Scale (POFRAS) on the beginning of oral feeding in preterm infants and to verify the concordance between this tool and the Oral Feeding Skill Level. METHODS 82 preterm infants were assessed by POFRAS regarding their readiness to initiate oral feeding and by the oral feeding skill level evaluation during the first oral feedin...

BACKGROUND The basic knowledge and skill base to resuscitate a newborn infant is taught in the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP). We hypothesize that caregivers will perform below current acceptable standards before the recertification period of two years. METHODS This is a prospective descriptive study evaluating performance of pediatric residents' NRP knowledge and skills over time. NRP ...

This study aims at empirically furthering awareness of the organization of interaction in EFL classes. Informed by the methodological framework of conversation analysis, it draws upon a corpus of 52 three-hour naturally-occurring classroom interaction to identify classroom interactional contexts based on the structuring of the pedagogic goals in turn-taking sequences. Conversation analytic proc...

Writing and speaking are the productive skills of a language and share similar components. However, there has been little attempt to investigate the impact of writing practice on the speaking proficiency of the learners. The present study using a pretest-posttest controlled group design in a quasi-experimental approach investigated the effect of guided writing practice on the speaking proficien...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the long-term impact of a childhood motor skill intervention on adolescent motor skills and physical activity. METHODS In 2006, we undertook a follow-up of motor skill proficiency (catch, kick, throw, vertical jump, side gallop) and physical activity in adolescents who had participated in a one-year primary school intervention Move It Groov...

Interest and self-efficacy beliefs are important components of motivational constructs that share some common characteristics influence learning. Studies examining how these two relate to each other, however, appear be few, especially in the area language To fill this gap, study aims investigate interest learning English proficiency listening, using a pre/post-design. This focused on exploring ...

ObjectivesTo determine the prevalence of fundamental movement skill (FMS) proficiency among a sample Iranian children.DesignCross sectional, representative 2200 children aged 2.5–14 years (50% girls), living in Tehran 2018.MethodsTrained field staff assessed 7 locomotor and 4 object control skills educational settings using Ohio State University Scale Intra-Gross Motor Assessment (OSU-SIGMA). S...

The present study investigates the effect of e-mail on Iranian learners of English and focuses on teaching thewriting skillvia e-mail. More specifically, the study investigates (a) whether using e-mail has any statistically significant effect on improving high school students' writing skill, and (b) whether the proficiency level has any relation with students’ writing improvement through using ...