Abstract Refugee integration, one long-term solution to the large number of people fleeing their home countries, constitutes a challenge for both refugees and host societies. ICT especially online peer groups seem promising support this process. Building on literature demonstrating societal benefits groups, paper proposes novel peer-group-based approach address refugee integration introduces an...

Gender is considered a sociological construct and investigating the role of gender in foreign language learning contexts is highly important due to the effects of sociological factors in learning. Therefore, the present study set out to explore the sociological effects of peer and teacher scaffolding through the process approach in a technology-enhanced environment on the vocabulary learning of...

Peer feedback content is a core component of peer assessment, but the impact of various contents of feedback is hardly studied. Participants in the study were 89 graduate students who were assigned to four experimental and a control group. Experimental groups received a scenario with Concise General (CGF) or Elaborated Specific (ESF) feedback by a high or low competent peer. ESF by a high compe...

Introduction: Since the hypertension disease is asymptomatic, Compliance and adherence is one of the essential problems. With a positive view to training either through health personnel and peer group in various aspects of life this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of training by peers with health personnel on blood pressure and adherence to treatment in hypertensive patient was done. ...

Alternative assessment approaches and, among them, self-assessment and peer-assessment are becoming increasingly important in educational contexts. Designed to compare self-assessment, peer-assessment, and teacher-assessment, this study included 90 EFL students from 3 intact classes divided into 3 groups: self-assessment, peer-assessment, and teacher-assessment. After taking the TOEFL Proficien...