this study examined the effects of collaborative strategic reading and direct instruction in persuasion on iranian high school students persuasive writing and attitudes. students in three intact classes were assigned to one of three treatment conditions: collaborative strategic reading and direct instruction in persuasion or direct instruction in persuasion or a control group. treatment effects...

Background & Aim: Using illicit drugs such as Ecstasy is a deviant behavior in adolescents. Attitude toward using illicit drugs can predict its usage. This study was carried out in order to determine the adolescents' attitude toward using Ecstasy in 2006. Methods & Materials: In this cross-sectional study, eight hundred adolescents aged 16-18 years who lived in the west of Tehran recruited from...

This research aimed to investigate the relationship of attitude to globalization with two components of health, namely social health and the avoidance of drugs, narcotics, and alcohol. The research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population consisted of students who were studying at Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz who were selected by the stratified method and completed q...

The present research aimed to investigate the impact of documentary films (with the content of abusing substance and psychotropic drugs) on the youth attitudes toward addiction. The statistical population included all adolescents in Bandar Abbas, of whom 20 were selected by convenient sampling method. First, all participants were taken pretests by using the Opium Attitude Questionnaire (OAQ), t...

abstract the first purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of consciousness-raising (c-r) activities on learning grammatical structures (simple present tense in this case) by iranian guidance school efl learners. the second one was to investigate the effect of gender on learning the simple present tense through c-r activities and tasks. finally, this study aimed to investigate the ...