Traditional and modern vocabulary instruction techniques have been introduced in the past few decades to improve the learners’ performance in reading comprehension. Semantic mapping, which entails drawing learners’ attention to the interrelationships among lexical items through graphic organizers, is claimed to enhance vocabulary learning significantly. However, whether this technique suits all...

background: learning disability is one of the most noticed subjects for behavioral specialists. most of the learning difficulties are caused by senso-motor development and neurological organization. the main purpose of the present research is to examine the role of delayed perceptual-motor development and brain damage in origination of expressive writing disorder (ewd).   methods: the studied s...

perceptual-motor skills play a vital role in many tasks of daily life and sports skills. the measurement of coincidence anticipation timing ability is a method to evaluate perceptual and perceptual-motor skills. thus, the main aim of the present study was to investigate the role of different organism, task and environment constraints in coincidence anticipation timing accuracy. for this purpose...

BACKGROUND Research suggests that men are less likely to seek help for depression, substance abuse, and stressful life events due to negative perceptions of asking for and receiving help. This may be exacerbated in male military cadets who exhibit higher levels of gender role conflict because of military culture. METHODS This exploratory study examined the perceptions of 78 male military cade...

this study presents an overview of the different strategies that persian learners of english employ to deal with initial clusters. while vowel epenthesis appears to be the most widespread repair strategy to conform such clusters to persian phonotactics, the location of the epenthetic vowel varies. in this paper, we investigate two approaches that seek to explain the epenthetic site. the first o...

OBJECTIVE To identify barriers and facilitators of medication adherence in patients with stroke along with their caregivers. DESIGN Qualitative thematic analysis of posts about secondary prevention medications, informed by Perceptions and Practicalities Approach. SETTING Posts written by the UK stroke survivors and their family members taking part in the online forum of the Stroke Associati...

the purpose of this study was identification and applying ahp method in prioritization and comparison educational barriers and sustainable development on production of edible insects as diets from the viewpoint of selected groups. it was an applied research, research method was analytical, descriptive and statistical society was four groups of specialists, livestock and poultry producers, insec...