Background and aims: The unnecessary demands both from patients and doctors cause a great amount of financial waste and negative impact on patients’ health. Thus there is a need for informing the public about the necessity of certain demands and the evidence behind them. Therefor we decided to launch a podcast channel with the aim of discussing top health issues and top demands and giving the l...

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of peer and teacher scaffolding through a process approach in a technology-enhanced environment on vocabulary learning among high and low self-regulated learners. Participants of the study were 120 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners who were selected based on their scores on a sample copy of the Oxford Placement Test (OPT). T...

Innovative mobile-based tools have made new opportunities for learners to spend more quality time inside the classrooms. Keeping this in mind, the present study sought to examine the effect of the flipped classroom on developing EFL learners’ speaking and listening skills. To do so, 60 EFL students from two universities in Iran were assigned into one of the classes of flipped and conventional g...

The widespread use of Telegram in Indonesia has had both positive and negative effects. While the app offers strong security features, it also become a platform for digital crimes, including sexual harassment. This study aims to address need effective forensic analysis classification methods by employing National Institute Justice (NIJ) methodology Naïve Bayes classifier analyze conversations o...

This article presents the original draft of the Zimmermann telegram from 1917 in facsimile. Its various annotations provide interesting insights, such as the idea to promise California to Japan and instructions concerning transmission and encryption. Further documents clarify how the telegram was sent and put various alternatives suggested in the literature to rest. The political background and...

In the present technology era, a new trend of using social media or social networking sites (SNSs) has been developed. Social media has a lot to offer when it comes to education in general and second language acquisition (SLA) in particular. This study aimed at investigating the impact of Telegram, as an available social network, on learning L2 vocabulary by Iranian EFL beginners. To achieve th...