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Studies have mainly focused on strategies to motivate teachers or the student-teacher motivation relationships rather than teacher demotivation in the English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching process, whereas no data have been found on the factors that cause teacher demotivation in the Turkish EFL teaching contexts at the elementary education level. Thus, this study aims to investigate the ...

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Storytelling is a practical and powerful teaching tool, especially for language learning. Teachers in language classrooms, however, may hesitate to incorporate storytelling into language instruction because of an already overloaded curriculum. English foreign language (EFL) teachers in Taiwan report additional problems such as having little prior experience with integrating storytelling into la...

strategies of strengthening family foundation mohaddesi h , yusofi m* received: 22 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract background & aims: family is the first basis for psychosomatic growth and socialization of individuals in a community. family members who are uninformed or reckless about their rights and responsibilities will make a field for different psychosocial damages such as vio...

In 1991, Papadimitriou and Yannakakis gave a reduction implying the NPhardness of approximating the problem 3-SAT with bounded occurrences. Their reduction is based on expander graphs. We present an analogue of this result for the second level of the polynomial-time hierarchy based on superconcentrator graphs. This resolves an open question of Ko and Lin (1995) and should be useful in deriving ...

Classical bearing capacity theory was developed mainly based on spatially uniform soil properties, which cannot account for the influence of inherent variability. If strength is heterogeneous, then using average may overestimate foundations, because failure mechanism preferentially mobilise weaker soils. In this study aim to establish a theoretical model upper-bound solutions applied analysis s...

A method for calculating the rods on elastic foundation under inertial load action when it moves at a variable speed is proposed. Test problems about force or movement with speeds along hinged beam and high-speed railway car deceleration track section modeled by supported of great length an are considered. The selection material rail determines dynamics in different modes its movement. To const...

An original approach for mechanical characterization was developed using indentation assisted micro-bending. Aiming at the reliable measurement of elastic modulus multi-scale solids, technique relies on deflection measurements cantilever-type beams modeled within framework foundation. The inference is carried out by postulating inverse problem and solving it via error minimization approach. val...