this study investigated the effect of reciprocal teaching (rt) on efl learners’ reading comprehension. fifty intermediate learners participated in the study and were sampled as the experimental (n = 25) and control groups (n = 25). participants were male and ranged in age from 15 to 16. the reading section of key english test (ket, 2010) was used as the pretest to assess the participants’ entry...

research shows a positive relationship between self-directed learning (sdl) andreading comprehension. the present quasi-experimental study attempted to expandthe scope of sdl by investigating its effect on the components of readingcomprehension. sixty high school students took the reading comprehension part ofpet as the pretest and the posttest. over 16 weeks, the experimental group,consisting ...

background: cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies are identified as important solutions for improving academic achievement. this study aimed toevaluate the effect of teaching cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies on academic achievement among nursing students. methods: this study was an experimental with pretest and posttest and follow-updesign.  the study population include...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate students' overall assessment and effectiveness of the web-based blended learning conception "Unified Patient Project" (UPP) for medical students rotating on their otolaryngology internship (ear, nose, and throat [ENT] tertiary). DESIGN Prospective comparison group design of the quasiexperimental type. SETTING Medical education. SUBJECTS The experimental group (preint...

this research chiefly focused on the application of mitigation strategies and traditional form of feedback in writing development of the fifth semester university students majoring in tefl and english translation fields based on vygotsky’s sociocultural theory in general and the notion of “zone of proximal development” in particular. to that end, this study relied on a pre-posttest experimental...

Vanags T, Budimlic M, Herbert E, Montgomery MM, Vickers T. Showercap Mindmap: a spatial activity for learning physiology terminology and location. Adv Physiol Educ 36: 125–130, 2012; doi:10.1152/advan.00095.2011.—Students struggle with the volume and complexity of physiology terminology. We compared first-year undergraduate psychology students’ learning of physiological terms using two teaching...

background: the aim of present study was to determine the influence of stress management on affective control and distress tolerance in mothers of children with sensory-motor disabilities. methods: this current study was a study with pretest-posttest and treatment group. the thirty mothers of children with sensory-motor disabilities were selected from sensory-motor disabilities center in qum by...

abstractwriting and speaking are the productive skills of a language and share similar components. however, there has been little attempt to investigate the impact of writing practice on the speaking proficiency of the learners. the present study using a pretest-posttest controlled group design in a quasi-experimental approach investigated the effect of guided writing practice on the speaking p...