the present research was conducted to explore the effect of employing two language teaching approaches, i.e. schema-based instruction (sbi) and translation-based instruction (tbi), on vocabulary knowledge, structure and reading comprehension ability of forty one female students learning english in grade one senior high school in rivash, kuhsorkh, iran. while sbi focuses on schemata, i.e. words ...

  Background and Objectives: Physical activity with the effect on the irisin hormone alters the structure of the white adipose tissue and turns it into brown fat that can reduce obesity related complications. This study aimed at determining the effect of high intensity interval training) HIIT) and vitamin E consumption on levels of irisin and gene expression of FNDC5 (fibronectin type III do...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mindfulness-based stress reduction program on academic procrastination and academic motivation of female students. The research method was pretest-posttest with the control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all female students of the third grade of secondary school in Mashhad during the first half of the first academic y...

abstract this study aimed at investigating the impact of etymology strategy instruction on the development of vocabulary of iranian intermediate efl learners. etymology, knowledge of origin of words, roots, and affixes, has proved to be a controversial issue and a question of long debate with regard to its impact on the process of vocabulary learning. this study employed etymology strategy in ...

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of premarital counseling based on a relationship education program in reducing the idealistic marital expectation in single young adults of Ahvaz city. Material & Methods: The is a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, and follow-up design using control group. Thirty two single young adults were voluntarily participated and a...

the primary goal of the current project was to examine the effect of three different treatments, namely, models with explicit instruction, models with implicit instruction, and models alone on differences between the three groups of subjects in the use of the elements of argument structures in terms of toulmins (2003) model (i.e., claim, data, counterargument claim, counterargument data, rebutt...