the effect of learning strategies on the speaking ability of iranian students in the context of language institutes abstract language learning strategies are of the most important factors that help language learners to learn a foreign language and how they can deal with the four language skills specifically speaking skill effectively. acknowledging the great impact of learning strategies...

acknowledgements i wish to express my gratitude to all those who have helped me in preparing this thesis. i would like to express my deep gratitude to my respected advisor dr. kourosh akef, whose advice and comments helped me in the early stages of the research and throughout the writing process. i would also like to express my gratitude to dr. hajar khanmohammad whose invaluable guidance he...

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

This study aims to forecast Iran's electricity demand by using meta-heuristic algorithms, and based on economic and social indexes. To approach the goal, two strategies are considered. In the first strategy, genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) are used to determine equations of electricity demand based on economic and social ind...

this study was conducted with this purpose؛Meta-analysis studies on affecting factors on student’s motivation. Methods of quantitative nature of the study were combined with the Meta– analytic approach and with review of 195 published articles in journal of Iran. These were formed the study population. 24 articles were found access to enter the meta- analyzes by checking this series of articles...

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...

In the current research, the effect of teaching meta cognitive strategies (SQP4R) and self-assessment among fifth grade students mental retarded was studied. For this purpose, 30 performing the comprehension Pre-test on both groups (Test and Control), the test group was taught (SQP4R) method and self-assessment in sixteen 45 minute sessions. After teaching the students for 16 sessions, the stud...

Introduction: The educational system of each society is concerned as the fundamental of its socio-economic development. Educational development is one of the important factors in evaluating educational systems. This study aims to investigate the relationship between metacognitive beliefs and self-efficiency with the students’ educational achievement of the students of Ferdows Faculty of P...