the present study sought to examine whether a task-based approach could have an impact on raising awareness of collocations. moreover, it sought to investigate the facilitative role of consciousness-raising tasks of collocations in the communicative instances of use. to this end, 68 intermediate learners of english were selected via a placement test. the participants were taught with classroom ...

this study investigated the functions, types and frequencies of code switching in the teachers and students discourse in elt classrooms. to this end, the participants of this study including two groups of teachers and students were selected. the first group of participants were two efl teachers teaching general english courses (at two different levels of proficiency) in an institutional program...

abstract biometric access control is an automatic system that intelligently provides the access of special actions to predefined individuals. it may use one or more unique features of humans, like fingerprint, iris, gesture, 2d and 3d face images. 2d face image is one of the important features with useful and reliable information for recognition of individuals and systems based on this ...

Background: Web based training is one of the new instructional technologies that could have created a suitable environment for instruction-with regarding acquisition knowledge approaches of constructivism and objectivism and by applying computer and web. Since students with special needs have some limitations in learning, rather than normal ones, it seems that web based instruction have an impo...

Introduction: With the sudden shift of face-to-face education to e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, awareness of learnerschr('39') readiness for online learning and its impact on studentschr('39') psychological distress related to e-learning is important for teachers, counselors, and educational planners. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the correlation between on...

Introduction: Job-related learning occurs as individuals acquire knowledge and skills helping them to perform their jobs effectively .The amount of job-related learning depends on the job demands and is facilitated through the need for achievement. The main purpose of this research was to examine whether the need for achievement moderates the relationship between job-demand for learning and job...