the effect of learning strategies on the speaking ability of iranian students in the context of language institutes abstract language learning strategies are of the most important factors that help language learners to learn a foreign language and how they can deal with the four language skills specifically speaking skill effectively. acknowledging the great impact of learning strategies...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate any relationship between high school efl teachers metaphorical understandings of their role in class and their self-efficacy beliefs. teachers metaphors were elicited through two different prompts: one picturing what they believed a language teacher should be like in class, and the other demonstrating what they are actually like in class; such...

  Objectives : The objective of this study was to determine the effects of dietary magnesium supplementation on mental health in elderly individuals with insomnia. Method: A double-blind randomized clinical trial was conducted on 46 elderly subjects with insomnia randomly allocated to the magnesium or placebo (control) group. The groups received either 500 mg elemental magnesium or placebo, res...

Introduction: Obesity is a very important cause of many chronic diseases. One of the ways to control weight and obesity is to have regular physical activity and the use some medicinal herbs. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of ginger supplementation per se and in combination with high intensity interval training (HIIT) on the anthropometric indices and serum levels of ir...

126 abstract: in this research we studied the effects of cyclic hydration and dehydration of cysts of artemia urmiana and artemia parthenogenetica on the hatching percentage, survival and growth. the experiment was carried out in 3 treatments (1-3 hydration/dehydration cycles) with 3 replicates for each treatment. later effects of cold preservation at -20°c during three time periods were ...

from its emergence till present time marxist principles has undergone great changes since their promulgation by marx. many theorists and thinkers set at rectifying marxist tenets and introducing those of their own while others advocated its main concepts and attempted at improving them. among marxist philosophers who had an intensive study of marxs ideology, is louis althusser whose reflections...

the ability to speak two languages in the world is a remarkable achievement. there is a good reason to believe that bilingualism is the norm for the majority of people in the world because 70% of the earth’s population are supposed to be bilingual or multilingual. various investigations have shown that the native language impacts foreign word recognition, and this influence is adapted by the de...

in this study reference as one of the five cohesive devices in the achievement of textuality in english and persian narrative/descripitive written texts is focused on and analysed . to do so , the theoretical framework elaborated by halliday and hasan (1976) and its version adapted by the writer to match the sub-types of reference in farsi are applied to the analysis of reference in english and...

 Background & Aims: Prevalence of obesity has increased in the world. Nowadays, it is known that omega3 fatty acids have a key role in control of obesity. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of omega 3 fatty acids supplementation on Anthropometric status and desire to foods in obese adults. Methods: This study was a double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trial. In our study, ...

this study attempted to explore if teaching english collocations through two different modes of awareness-raising and input flooding has any possible differential effect on immediate retention as well as retention in a delayed assessment. it also compared the possible differential effect of teaching english collocations implicitly and explicitly on actively using the items in writing. m...