with the growth of more humanistic approaches towards teaching foreign languages, more emphasis has been put on learners’ feelings, emotions and individual differences. one of the issues in teaching and learning english as a foreign language is demotivation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of language learning strategies, optimism, duration o...

Introduction: The role of e-Learning in medical education is rapidly growing. Acceptance and satisfaction of e-Learning recipients of continuing Medical Education (CME) programs is very important in its success. The aim of this study is to assess CME’s participants’ satisfaction about e-Learning programs in Semnan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. Over th...

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

language learning courseware has been receiving growing attention by english educators since its advent. a variety of softwares have been designed by software designers and resorted to by language educators to supplement language textbooks. this experimental study investigated how the application of computerized version of language textbooks and the reception of the entire course through comput...

Background and Aim: Increasing the use of smartphones, improving the state of World Wide Web, and also the need for flexibility in the education process have made the implementation of e-learning in human society inevitable, eliminated time and space limitations, and provided equal education. However, the pace of its creation and development, especially in universities and higher education cent...

The aim of this study was to explore students’ readiness for e-learning during Covid-19, determining learner satisfaction with online learning experiences and their relations with students’ success. A descriptive-analytical research design and Spearman correlation coefficient were used in this study. Population under study, which was considered as the sample, included students of a course in a ...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ class management practices with students’ self- regulated learning and academic self-efficacy. in this study relating to the management class, three dimensions, (training management, people management and behavior management) and three style (interventionist, interactionist and non-interventionist) was considered. r...

Introduction: During the Covid-19 epidemic, the use of online e-learning in higher education has grown significantly. Accordingly, the present study was conducted to investigate the application of e-learning in nursing students of nursing schools of Islamic Azad University of Mazandaran in 2020. Methods: This study was a descriptive survey method. The statistical population was all 650 nursing ...