A significant number of ninth-grade students still struggles with proficiently comprehending texts. Moreover, their increasingly lowering motivation to read is alarming. Various educational interventions designed enhance reading comprehension and/or are available in the scientific field. However, a detailed description its underlying principles frequently lacking. This could provide genuine opp...

This mixed-methods study investigated English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ perceptions of task difficulty and their use metacognitive strategies in completing integrated speaking tasks as empirical evidence for the effects instruction. A total 130 university students were invited to complete four answer a strategy inventory self-rating scale. sub-sample eight participated subsequent in...

the current study was after probing the would-be correlation between emotional intelligence (and its subcomponents), on the one hand, and metacognitive listening strategies used by academic efl learners, on the other. benefiting from 72 female and 40 male university students from urmia university, urmia azad university and salams azad university, the current study also strived to find the possi...

This study aimed at determining the effect of instruction in cognitive and metacognitive strategies on the students' educational self-esteem and academic performance. 87 students were selected through random sampling. The two first groups were consciously taught about cognitive and metacognitive strategies. All the classes were taught by the same teacher. Pourmoghaddasian’s self-esteem question...

In embedded system design, there is an increasing demand for a cache simulation module inside a well-known instruction set simulator QEMU. System level, Algorithmic level, Instruction set level, Register-transfer level (RTL) simulation model can also be used for the synthesis of the embedded system. In embedded system design, there is an increasing demand for modeling techniques that can provid...

Pupils’ poor achievement in mathematics has recently been a concern in many Western countries. In order to address this issue, it has been proposed to teach chess in schools. However, in spite of optimistic claims, no convincing evidence of the academic benefits of chess instruction has ever been provided, because no study has ever controlled for possible placebo effects. In this experimental s...

How does the type of learning material impact what is learned? The current research investigates the nature of students’ learning of math concepts when using manipulatives (Uttal, Scudder, & DeLoache, 1997). We examined how the type of manipulative (concrete, abstract, none) and problem-solving prompt (metacognitive or problem-focused) affect student learning, engagement, and knowledge transfer...

The current research was an effort to study the interaction of gender with text enhancement and meta-cognitive grammar instruction on learning and recall of English grammar. To this end, two groups of students consisting of 51 learners from both genders were formed. The participants were 51 male and 51 female learners. The 51 participants of each gender were further divided into two groups. The...