abstract the first purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of consciousness-raising (c-r) activities on learning grammatical structures (simple present tense in this case) by iranian guidance school efl learners. the second one was to investigate the effect of gender on learning the simple present tense through c-r activities and tasks. finally, this study aimed to investigate the ...

abstract this study is an attempt to determine the effect of nano- technology education on science lesson for fifth grade in primary school in the city of kermanshah. this research is experimental and is conducted in the from of pre-test and post- test for the control group. an achievement test was administered to determine the rate of learning in the students. the research is an applied one. ...

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

vocabulary as a major component of language learning has been the object of numerous studies each of which has its own contribution to the field. finding the best way of learning the words deeply and extensively is the common objective of most of those studies. however, one effective way for achieving this goal is somehow neglected in the field. using a variety of activities such as games can r...

Background and Aim: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a kind of chronic disease of the central nervous system and the most common neurological disorder of it. The disease is the result of damage to the myelin tissue manifested in various symptoms. This study was aimed to compare the five big personality factors and locus of control in patients with MS syndrome and these items in normal individuals. M...

The purpose of the present research is to investigate the role of locus of control and social problem-solving competence in predicting students’ achievement motivation in Karaj, Iran. The present study is of the correlational research type. The research population includes all female and male students in District four in Karaj, from among whom 200 students (100 female students and 100 male stud...