Introduction: Introduction: Resilience has been defined as the capacity to sustain relatively stable psychological well-being and the ability to develop positive experiences and emotions under stressful and overwhelming situations. The present study aimed at assessing the internal consistency and confirmatory factor analysis of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) among female student...

the space now known as complete erdos space ec was introduced by paul erdos in 1940 as the closed subspace of the hilbert space ?2 consisting of all vectors such that every coordinate is in the convergent sequence {0} ? { 1 n : n ? n}. in a solution to a problem posed by lex g. oversteegen we present simple and useful topological characterizations of ec. as an application we determine the ...

the present research study attempted to find out the extent to which two pre-task activities of “glossary of unknown vocabulary items” and “content related support” assisted efl language learners with their performance on listening comprehension questions across two different proficiency levels (low and high). data for this study were obtained from a total of 120 language learners, female and m...

the present study was an attempt to determine the types of motivation and levels of foreign language learning anxiety among efl students studying at azad and state universities in kermanshah and to determine the relationship between these two factors and language proficiency and gender. to this end, the foreign language learning motivation scale, by deci and ryan )1985(, were administered to 12...

there has been a gradual shift of focus from the study of rule systems, which have increasingly been regarded as impoverished, … to the study of systems of principles, which appear to occupy a much more central position in determining the character and variety of possible human languages. there is a set of absolute universals, notions and principles existing in ug which do not vary from one ...

Purpose: This study Accomplished to evaluate the adequacy of psychometric properties and validate the Isaacson Reading Attitude Questionnaire. Isaacson et al. (2016) designed The Attitude Towards Academic Reading Questionnaire. Method: To validate this tool, apparent and content validity indices were measured. Also, confirmatory factor analysis was utilized to evaluate the validity of the stru...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate factorial structure (construct validity) and reliability of the Persian version of the Revised Shyness Scale among university students. Method: 182 students were randomly selected from five schools of Chamran University using stratified sampling, and completed the Persian version of the Revised Cheek Briggs Shyness Scale (PRSS) and Rosenb...

the extent to which written corrective feedback on linguistic errors can play a role in helping l2 writers improve the accuracy of their writing continues to be an issue of interest to researchers and teachers since truscott (1996) mounted a case for its abolition. while there is growing empirical evidence that written corrective feedback can successfully target some types of linguistic error (...

the purpose of this two-phase, sequential mixed methods study was to find out whether there were any decencies between male and female ma students’ theses regarding the common features of academic writing such as syntactic complexity, means of integrating cited information, and organizing arguments. i chose 10 male written theses and 15 female written theses in tefl and linguistics. in the firs...