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The effect of schema-vs-translation-based teaching on learning English in high schools
The present research project was conducted to explore the effect of schema-based teaching (SBT)
and translation-based teaching (TBT) on vocabulary knowledge, structure and reading comprehension ability of forty-one ...
English Language Policy and Teacher Effectiveness at Grade Three Senior High Schools
This study aimed to explore the relationship between English language education policy (ELEP) and
teacher effectiveness (TE) at grade three senior high schools (G3SHS) in Mashhad, Iran. To this end, the
English ...
Development and validation of an Islamic religious orientation scale with pilgrims of Imam Reza Shrine
measures of religious orientations. The scale and its underlying factors are discussed by employing schema theory and suggestions are made for future research...
Especial skill in the favorite locations of experienced Basketball Players
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is exploring for especial skills in favorite locations of experienced basketball players. Eight experimented basketball players perform 210 jump shots from favorite and other six locations. ...
Ideology in the BBC and Press TV’s Coverage of Syria Unrest: A Schema-Based Approach
. By assuming that news is not a value-free construction of facts and drawing on micro structural approach of schema theory a comparative analysis of twenty six news texts posted by the two news agencies was conducted. Every attempt was
made to choose...
Social and Emotional Intelligences: Empirical and Theoretical Relationship
This study aimed to explore the relationship between social and emotional intelligences. To this end,
Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) was translated into Persian and employed as a measure of social ...
Social Capitals and English Language Learning in an Iranian Language Institute
This study aimed to 1) explore the social capitals of students who had registered in the three
branches of Khorasan Language Institute (KLI) to learn English, 2) establish their factorial validity and 3)
explore ...
Does “experience” bring about any significant difference in EFL teacher talk
The rationale for the present study is based on the fact that understanding the teaching pro- cess and the development of teachers is incomplete unless the teachers' classroom behavior, especially their talk, is objectively ...
Authenticity and Sampling in C-Tests: A schema-Based and Statistical Response to Grotjahn’s Critique
The paper aims to respond to Grotjahn’s (2012a) critique of Khodadady and Hashemi’s (2011) paper “Validity and C-Tests: The Role of Text Authenticity” by employing reduced redundancy (RR) and schema theories. It counter argues that developing...
S-Tests and C-Tests: Measures of Content-Based Achievement at Grade Four of High Schools
This study aims to explore the internal, empirical as well as content validity of C-Tests and S-Tests developed on the passages of the textbook Learning to Read English for Pre-University Students (Birjandi, Sarab, & Samimi, ...