What are the most exciting areas for future research? It is possible to forget that we live in the golden age of biology and will do for some time to come. Genome projects have given us a list of components but told us nothing about how they work to make life. The next century of biomedical research will be required to fully exploit this resource. Nominating areas of future research excitement ...

The present study aspired to scrutinize the relationship among EFL learners' Self-directed Learning (SL), Resilience (RE), and Willingness to Communicate (WTC). To accomplish this purpose, 124 male and female undergraduate EFL learners, within the age range of 20 to 32, were selected through convenience sampling. These EFL learners were asked to fill in three questionnaires, namely the SL...

This study explored both teachers’ and learners’ perceptions of teachers’ pedagogic strategies which may engender willingness to communicate (WTC) in an English as a foreign language class and the difference between their perceptions to detect how convergent or possibly how divergent these are. The project used a convenience sample of 300 students taking an intermediate English course and their...

The ability to write effectively is becoming progressively important and instruction in writing is assuming an increasing role in second and foreign language education. Students’ writing abilities have been tested through various writing tasks. Independent tasks of writing or writing-only tasks have been utilized to test students’ writing ability; however, they have been criticized for their la...

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره نوزدهم، خرداد 1399، 222-221       چقدر زمان برای نوشتن یک مقاله مورد نیاز است؟ How Much Time Does It Need to Write an Article?   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   اگر برای شما این سؤال پیش آمده است که: " چقدر زمان برای نوشتن یک مقاله مورد نیاز است؟" خواندن فصل پنجم کتاب "چگونه مقالات بهتر پزشکی بنویسیم" (How to write better m...

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره نوزدهم، اسفند 1399، 1244-1243       تشویق نویسندگان بالقوه به منظور نگارش مقاله برای مجله دانشگاه Encouraging Potential Authors to Write Articles for JRUMS     محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian      بیش‌تر از یک دهه است که با افتخار سردبیر مجله دانشگاه می‌باشم [1]. در این مدت نهایت تلاش خودم را به عمل آورده‌ام که با نگارش سخن...

در یکی از سخنان سردبیری قبلی مجله دانشگاه، آمادگی این مجله برای بررسی و چاپ پروتکل کارآزمایی‌ها را به اطلاع خوانندگان و نویسندگان فرهیخته رساندیم. در آن سخن سردبیری، علاقمندان را به ارسال مقالات مربوط پروتکل مطالعه خود به مجله دانشگاه تشویق و ترغیب نمودیم [1]. در این سخن سردبیری قصد داریم که یک‌بار دیگر، آن فراخوان را تجدید کرده و هم‌چنین، آمادگی مجله را برای انتشار پروتکل تمام مطالعات مهم اعم ...

The study aims at investigating the influence of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' perfectionism and anxiety on their Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in EFL classes. To do so, a set of questionnaires, namely “Willingness To Communicate” (MacIntyre, et al., 2001), “Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety” (Horwitz, et al., 1986)  and “Multidimensional Perfectionism Scales” (Hewitt & Flet...