this thesis seeks to present a critical reading of virginia woolf’s mrs. dalloway and michael cunningham’s the hours in terms of an intertextual approach, concentrating on dialogic imagination, negativity, transposition and allusion. this study attempts to evaluate cunninghams perception of woolfs life and work by adopting kristevas conception of intertextuality and her consideration of the hou...

abstract the aim of the present study is to explore the impact of the cognitive reading strategy instruction on learners reading self-efficacy and their reading achievement. in order to fulfill this purpose, from 120 participants, 90 intermediate efl learners as an experimental group were chosen from three different educational settings namely, yazd university, yazd science and art un...

Background: Illness Perception and self-care behaviors are essential elements in treatment and management of patients with diabetes. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of group counseling with a cognitive-behavioral approach to illness perceived and self-care behaviors in middle-aged women with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Methods: The present study is a quasi - experimental study w...

this study examined the effects of collaborative strategic reading and direct instruction in persuasion on iranian high school students persuasive writing and attitudes. students in three intact classes were assigned to one of three treatment conditions: collaborative strategic reading and direct instruction in persuasion or direct instruction in persuasion or a control group. treatment effects...

abstract due to the growing importance and influence of the self of the teacher in the field of educational and cognitive psychology, the current study intended to investigate the relationship between three teacher qualities and characteristics, i.e. teacher self efficacy, self regulation, and success as perceived by their learners. the study aimed at finding whether teacher self efficacy an...

Human’s perception and cognition of city form based on his mutual interaction with the environment. The knowledge of urban design, which is aimed at creating a good environment for humans, tries to identify ways of deepening the relationship. It has mostly utilized the achievements of environmental psychology, but the notion of perception, as an epistemological issue, has its conceptual roots i...

Objective: To present a structural model of pain perception based on childhood trauma, early maladaptive schemas mediated by emotion regulation in people with chronic pain. Method: The research method was descriptive of correlation and structural equations. It was in 1399 that 300 of them (175 females and 125 males) were selected by available sampling method. They responded to the Granfsky and ...

Abstract Background and Objectives Hemophilia is one of the chronic disorders of blood coagulation which due to the lack of coagulation factors exposes the person to a variety of physical problems which affect patient. The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy and treatment based on acceptance and commitment in adherence to treatment, illness perception and quality of life in hemophili...

abstract recent studies suggest that prelistening activities play an important role in the development of listening comprehension (e.g. long 1990;chiang and dunkel 1992; schmidt-rinehart 1994; jensen and hansen 1995; robinson et al., 1995; buck, 1995; foster and skehan,1996; teng 1996; robinson, 2001; chang and read 2006). in line with previous studies and to shed light on a new aspect of sche...