Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategy Use in Reading: The Case of Iranian EFL Students’ Test Performance

Mastering vocabulary knowledge has always been a major concern for language learners (Nation, 2002). The present research mainly concerned with the impression comparing the performance of Iranian bilingual EFL students with monolingual groups by means of the treatment of the etymology of unknown English words upon their vocabulary retention. The ongoing research aimed at exploring the significa...

FACULTY MEMBERS AND PHD STUDENTS OF FACULTY OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, BASED ON SUCCESSFUL EVIDENCE HEALTHCARE Maryam Razmkhah, Hadi Sharif Moghadam, Soraya Ziaei, Vahideh Zarea, Mohammad Reza Narimani. School of Nursing and Midwifery .Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Associate Professor, Knowledge and information science, Payame Noor Un...

A cluster random sample of 1073 students in the Islamic Republic of Iran (mean age 14.37 years) completed a self-report questionnaire consisting of an exercise measure, selected constructs of Pender's health promotion model and an assessment of stages of behaviour change in exercise. In multivariate discriminant analysis, exercise self-efficacy, perceived barriers to exercise, perceived benefit...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed at assessing the psychometric properties of psychosocial determinants of physical activity-related measures in Iranian adolescent girls. METHODS Several measures of psychosocial determinants of physical activity were translated from English into Persian using the back-translation technique. These translated measures were administered to 512 ninth and tenth-g...

BACKGROUND Clients with communication impairment are at risk for health disparity. Hence, health care workers should be knowledgeable and skillful in communication. However, no studies are available on Iranian nursing and midwifery students' communication skills with patients with severe communication problems. OBJECTIVES The present study was conducted to investigate Iranian nursing and midw...

objective: the aim was to evaluate gender differences in depression scores of iranian and german medical students. methods: two hundred iranian medical students (100 men and 100 women) and 200 german medical students (100 men and 100 women) were selected randomly and completed the english form of the self-rating beck depression inventory (bdi). results: analysis gave a mean rating of 10.7 ± 6.6...

In the previous editorial, [1] we explained the necessity of transition from interdisciplinary researches to interdisciplinary technologies in Iran. Now, we wish to explain about one of the major opportunities in Iran that can help us to expedite this transition. According to the current procedure of student’s admission for Iranian universities, there is a highly competitive race among students...