This paper explores male and female students' and teachers' perceptions of the role of grammar instruction and corrective feedback. A questionnaire, administered to 60 male and female intermediate EFL students (30 males and 30 females) and 40 teachers (20 males and 20 females), elicited student and teacher perceptions concerning the role of explicit grammar instruction and corrective feedback i...

We have created a logic-based Turing-complete language for stochastic modeling. Since the inference scheme for this language is based on a variant of Pearl’s loopy belief propagation algorithm, we call it Loopy Logic. Traditional Bayesian Networks have limited expressive power, basically constrained to finite domains as in the propositional calculus. This language contains variables that can ca...

Despite the large quantity of research projects about online learning, studies on students’ language learning motivation, self-efficacy belief, and metacognitive strategy use in setting are limited. The present paper aims to fill this gap through assessing learners’ strategies, their perceived progress English learning. Responses surveys were administered two times. collected data subject longi...

Each year, 24-36% of malaria cases in Beluchestan (area) occur among Afghani refugees. Knowledge about malaria transmission and protection are important for these refugees to enable local Health Services to manage malaria control in the area. Our objective was to explore and investigate knowledge, attitude and practices of Afghan refugees and Iranian residents with respect to malaria transmissi...

This paper aims to study Vygotsky’s (1987) sociocultural theory of learning with respect to how it relates to technology-based second language learning and teaching. The researchers selected their participants from advanced students from Payame Noor University. We divided the participants into two groups- an experimental group and a control group. After teaching the course an experimental group...