Background and Objective: Learning Strategies includes overt and covert behaviors, which are associated with success in learning. On the other hand, training students who are able to live in environments with diverse values, rapid technological changes, and developments in the socio-cultural complex is one of the unique challenges to a university administrator. Therefore, this study was perfo...

  Background and Objectives: Child abuse is one of the major health and social problems in all countries whichis affected by factors including cultural, social, family, and some characteristics of children. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of child abuse and some related demographic factors among pupils in the third grade of guidance school in Zanjan.   Materials and Methods: This c...

abstract the aim of the present study is to explore the impact of the cognitive reading strategy instruction on learners reading self-efficacy and their reading achievement. in order to fulfill this purpose, from 120 participants, 90 intermediate efl learners as an experimental group were chosen from three different educational settings namely, yazd university, yazd science and art un...

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Background and Objective: Students general health is the most important factor in their education at university.  Since the task of university is training committed and efficient human resources, it is also possible with a balanced growth in all aspects of mental health .This study aimed to assess the general health of new students in Zanjan University of Medical Sciences in the first seme...