two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

‏‎this study investigated the effect of prior knowledge on the listening comprehension performance of fl learners. twenty students, male and female, drawn from the two intact groups of the senior and junior english language and literature majors were chosen as the participants of this study . the two groups were then randomly assigned into the experimental and control group. the experimental gr...

Background & Objective: Regular and adequate physical activity is a major factor in maintaining good health throughout entire life course. Levels of inactivity are high in all countries. Effective educational interventions are needed to promote physical activity in all populations. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a heath education intervention on physical activity knowledge...

This research was conducted to examine the effect of adding forward and backward running in a wobble training program on some of functional static balance tests. In this research 30 young male(15-35 years) with sprain of lateral ligaments (grade I,II) of ankle joint were selected by non-probability sampling and assigned randomly into three groups: Group 1 included 10 subjects that perfo...

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sexual skills training on women's sexual schemas and marital satisfaction of married women. Methods: The statistical population of this study was married women in Tehran. 40 subjects were selected according to the criteria for entering the research. They were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups and the...

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of podcasts as a learning and teaching tool on iranian efl learners’ motivation for listening as well as on their listening comprehension ability. the study also investigated the learners’ perception towards listening to podcasts and examined whether the learners were likely to accept podcasts. out of fifty-five intermediate learners studying e...