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Direct linkAfshar, Hassan Soodmand; Movassagh, Hossein – Language Learning Journal, 2017
The study investigated the relationship among critical thinking, strategy use and university achievement. To this end, 76 English major students sat the California Critical Thinking Skills Test and filled out Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Language Learning. Participants' Grade Point Averages were regarded as their university achievement. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
Download full textAbdolhosseini, Amir; Keikhavani, Sattar; Hasel, Kourosh Mohammadi – Online Submission, 2011
This study reviewed the effect of instructing cognitive and metacognitive strategies on the academic progress of Medical Sciences of Ilam University students. The research is quasi-experimental including a pre-test and a post-test. The population of the research includes the students of Medical Sciences of Ilam University. The sample includes 120…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Foreign Countries, Pretests Posttests, Metacognition
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2009
The present study intended to see if, everything else being equal, participants' study major really affected their language achievement. It was hypothesized that the exact EFL sub-discipline (i.e., Translation, Literature, or Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)) in which students are majoring affects their language achievement in…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, English Instruction, Majors (Students)
Khodadady, Ebrahim; Zabihi, Reza – International Education Studies, 2011
This study explored the relationship between social and cultural capital and school achievement by developing, administering and validating a 35-statement questionnaire to 403 undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Teaching English as a foreign language and Persian Language and Literature and correlating their extracted factors with the…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Extracurricular Activities, Family Relationship
Bozorgi, Simin – Online Submission, 2009
The present study sponsored by Islamic Azad University of Bandar Abbas, Iran, intended to see if locus of control really affected students' language achievement. It was hypothesized that subjects' loci of controls affected their GPA's in meaningful and significant ways. The study also tried to measure the effects of students' major and their…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Grade Point Average, Cognitive Style, College Students
Khodadady, Ebrahim; Zabihi, Reza – English Language Teaching, 2011
This study reports the performance of 419 undergraduate and graduate students on three questionnaires addressing their biodata, social and cultural capitals and personality factors. The statistical analysis of the students' diploma Grade Point Averages (GPAs) and monthly family income (MFI) showed that the GPAs and MFIs of students majoring in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, Grade Point Average, Family Income
