this research aimed at studying and comparing the effectiveness of cognitive-behaviora parents training metods with pretest-posttest control group design. to do so, six classes were randomly selected among the second grade classes of junior high schools in esfahan province. eliss pop's self-esteem test was used as the pretest and 15 students whose self-esteem scores were below the cut-off ...

Introduction Over the past two decades Cairns landscape has transformed from a remote tourist town beside Great Barrier Reef to an international, tropical city with new focus on culture and arts. A number of important urban design projects have enabled this transformation, including key waterfront redevelopments, addition large shopping mall convention centre, renovated museum, now performing a...

the present research investigated the effect of self-regulatory approach (with two components of self-checking and self-efficacy) on pre-intermediate iranian learners' lexical segmentation in listening comprehension via authentic listening comprehension texts. to achieve this purpose, the investigators administered an oxford placement test (2007) to ninety-eight students of two girls’ priv...