the present study sought to investigate the impact of using mind-mapping technique instruction on female elementary efl learners reading comprehension; it also investigated their attitudes towards using mind-mapping technique as a tool to improve their reading comprehension. this study followed a quasi-experimental design with two intact groups as experimental, and control groups. the participa...

the purpose of this two-phase, sequential mixed methods study was to find out whether there were any decencies between male and female ma students’ theses regarding the common features of academic writing such as syntactic complexity, means of integrating cited information, and organizing arguments. i chose 10 male written theses and 15 female written theses in tefl and linguistics. in the firs...

Educational quality improvement and related standards have been considered widely by all of the countries specially those who are pioneer in this field and in last fifty years. Finding objective criteria to rank universities and supporting them financially is The main Reason of this consideration. To assure the quality of higher education, the accreditation has acted as an accepted approach a...

the central purpose of this study was to conduct a case study about the role of self monitoring in teacher’s use of motivational strategies. furthermore it focused on how these strategies affected students’ motivational behavior. although many studies have been done to investigate teachers’ motivational strategies use (cheng & d?rnyei, 2007; d?rnyei & csizer, 1998; green, 2001, guilloteaux & d?...

Vacant capacities in undergraduate education in the past two years , represents following inappropriate development patterns of higher education and waste of resources .To recognize several factors that leads to this , we investigated the results of attached studies in 2001 at institute for research and planning in higher education(IRPHE). Referring to that studies and analyzing relevant info...