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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Ghabanchi, Zargham; Doost, Haniyeh Alami – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
This study attempts to see if there was a relationship between EI (emotional intelligence) and literary appreciation. To explore this ninety university students who were all studying English literature were chosen from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Out of the ninety participants, fifty participants were female and forty were male. They were aged…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Literature Appreciation, Correlation, College Students
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Ghabanchi, Zargham; Ayoubi, Elham Sadat – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
This study is an attempt to compare the effect of four reading conditions on incidental vocabulary learning and recall of intermediate EFL learners. A sample population of 120 Iranian intermediate students read two short passages in one of four reading conditions: 1) L1 Marginal Glosses (MG1--provision of L1 translations of unknown words), 2) L2…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Recall (Psychology)
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Ghabanchi, Zargham; Alavi, Sahar Zahed – Journal of International Education Research, 2011
Using Lautmatti's (1978) framework, this study examines the types of topic progression techniques used in 120 paragraphs written by 40 Iranian undergraduate students. Each student was asked to write three types of paragraphs; namely, those of comparison and contrast, cause-effect, and chronology. The present study investigates the relationship…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Paragraph Composition, Writing Assignments, Foreign Countries