BACKGROUND This study evaluates the effects of a language and literacy intervention for children with Down syndrome. METHODS Teaching assistants (TAs) were trained to deliver a reading and language intervention to children in individual daily 40-min sessions. We used a waiting list control design, in which half the sample received the intervention immediately, whereas the remaining children r...

Nowadays, English language plays an important role in the job of engineers and it is necessary to become familiar with engineers’ objectives, attitudes, and expectations in order to have an appropriate course design. The purpose of this study was to explore the needs analysis of English learning of engineers in Esfahan Steel Company (ESCO). This study aimed at investigating the required level o...

Background: The variability in the developmental skills is reduced after the first three years of life; therefore, it is necessary to identify and manage early developmental delays. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of developmental stimulation program on the developmental measures of the toddlers. Method: The present randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on ...

the factor structure of the listening section of a persian language proficiency test (plpt), developed and used for academic purposes, was examined in this study. a structural equation modeling (sem) was employed using amos (v. 18) to analyze the responses of a number of persian language learners (n=120) who participated in the first piloting phase of the test in 2014. to examine whether the li...

Emergency remote teaching presented many new and unknown situations. Many studies have examined the impact of distance education on children’s learning outcomes, including in area first language, particularly reading writing skills, literacy. This research examines literature teaching, more specifically effects change younger students’ reception ability. One hundred ninety-six teachers particip...

This study investigates how children’s sensitivity to prosodic characteristics in speech is related to their processing of musical melody and rhythm, and how these are related to phonological awareness (PA), in a sample of 23 5-year-old pre-readers. Measures included non-word prosodic imitation, melody and rhythm discrimination, a battery of phonological awareness tasks, and general expressive ...