The goal was to examine the nature of social anhedonia using two validated measures and study their relationship to scores on the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). Nearly 1,900 college-aged participants completed the Chapman Revised Social Anhedonia Scale (RSAS), Anticipatory and Consummatory Interpersonal Pleasure Scale (ACIPS), and the NEO-FFI. Although both the RSAS and ACIPS were associa...

This study investigated specific patterns of a reactive approach to form-focused instruction: namely, corrective feedback and its relationship to error types and immediate learner repair. The database is drawn from transcripts of audio recordings made in four French immersion classrooms at the elementary level, totaling 18.3 hours and including 921 error sequences. The 921 learner errors were c...

This study investigated the effects of prompts as corrective feedback strategy on teaching /θ/ and /ð/ sounds to Iranian EFL learners. To achieve this objective, after 30 students studying English at a language institute took a placement test, the intermediate-level students were selected based on their scores on this test. They were randomly assigned to one experimental group and one control g...

There is growing recognition of the need to end debate regarding reading instruction in favor an approach that provides a solid foundation phonics and other underlying language skills become expert readers. We advance this agenda by providing evidence specific effects focused primarily on written code or developing knowledge. In grade 1 program evaluation study, inclusive comprehensive with gre...

This multiple case study investigated pedagogical decisions in encountering challenges pre-service teachers’ integrated-skills instruction and the underlying factors influencing their different responses to during overseas Chinese teaching practice programme. Two cohorts (n=8) of teachers were involved this when they participated programme for 15 weeks at seven K-12 schools North Central Thaila...

Writing quality is dependent upon the organization and sequencing of cognitive processes during writing. College students need writing-strategy advice that tailored to their individual needs cognizant already-established writing processes. However, there an obstacle providing such advice: Both instructors writers lack awareness moment-by-moment actions by which text was produced. This because s...

OBJECTIVE The attitudes of girls regarding menarche vary according to their cultural backgrounds. Asian girls may hesitate to discuss menarche. Computer-assisted self-administered interviewing (CASI) is considered a valid and effective tool for investigating the timing of menarche; however, the validity of self-reported menarche data from CASI in Chinese culture is currently unknown. We aimed t...

INTRODUCTION Recent literature has shown that the good outcome of adoption would mostly depend on the quality of adoptive parenting, which is strongly associated with the security of parental internal working models (IWMs) of attachment. Specifically, attachment states-of-mind of adoptive mothers classified as free and autonomous and without lack of resolution of loss or trauma could represent ...

This study focuses on the physical vulnerability of buildings to flash floods using an indicator-based methodology. A index (PhVI) that combines intrinsic (IV) and flood intensity (FFI) is proposed. IV evaluates propensity suffer damage, resulting from indicators related building properties. FFI estimates potential cause flow parameters. PhVI was applied a critical section small drainage basin ...