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Designing a model that can measure the organizational maturity level in the range of IT and related requirements across the enterprise before any action and answer concerns raised before any action completely transparent, the effectiveness of the measures taken would be certainly very useful and effective. Also, in recent decades, IT is upheld with almost all aspects of our lives, especially professional working life. The use of information technology in various fields, and the rapid growth of the use of computers in organizations to assess and acceptance and rejection of IT in organizations has particular significance so that IT's role in achieving an organization's strategic development objectives has been discussed. The research method used in this research is descriptive survey and the type of applied research. The statistic population, are experts in the field of information technology and sampling in this study was non-random sampling (100 experts from the organization). Because of the variable quality of the Friedman ANOVA test was used to test hypotheses and SPSS software was used for data analysis. In general, here we have tried to evaluate the impact of IT organizational maturity and organizational maturity model for assessing the success or failure of the organization's IT group. Reliability and internal consistency reliability test was 0/731. And the results suggest that organizational maturity of the success and failure of information technology is impressive.

There is a controversy over providing error correction feedback on L2 writing. Some researchers propose that it should be totally abandoned. Other researchers claim that the basis for the proof of these studies is insufficient and further investigation is required. In this research, it was examined whether the type of corrective feedback (direct, explicit writing feedback along with student-teacher conferencing; direct, explicit writing feedback alone; no corrective feedback) on three types of error (prepositions, the past simple tense, and the definite article) had any significant effect on writing accuracy of Iranian university students. For this purpose, 60 university students majoring in English Language Teaching were selected and they were separated into three groups. Each group was exposed to a distinct corrective feedback. The study found significant effect for the application of the first corrective feedback (direct, explicit written and conference feedback) on students’ writing accuracy in the case of past simple tense and the definite article. But these feedback types had no significant effect on writing accuracy when the three error types were considered as a single group.

Because of the importance and necessity of self-esteem and communicational skills and their effects on teenagers, daily relations with each other, a omni lateral study of the factors could be efficient in training and educational matters of students with hearing impairments. The study mainly aims to confirm the effect of training communicative skills on self-esteem of deaf and partially deaf teenagers. The research method is experimental, and the plot is pre-test and post-test with control group. The statistical community includes 65 female high school students at craft and technology 24-hours deaf and hard of hearing school in Amol city in 2012-2013 raining 15-20 years of age. From the community, a 30- students sample was randomly taken and divided into two experimental and control group with 15 students in each. To collect data, cooper smith's self-esteem test was used. The experimental group under took six 1-hour communicative skills trainings, each weak for amount. The results showed that the training had a positive effect on impaired students at P=0.000 level. So, it is concluded that training communicative skills is an efficient method in increasing self-esteem in teenagers with hearing impairments.

It is often perceived that we have advanced as a Nation due to Westernization, but taking a closer look at it, one discovers that the Igbo people have been enslaved without their knowledge to adopt Western culture of injustice, disobedience, bribery, corruption and so on at the expense of their rich cultural heritage that promotes communal living, hard work, truthfulness and justice. Though Westernization emancipated the people from cruel practices but it ought not to wean them away from their culture. Therefore, to extricate the culture from extinction, the Igbo people need to retrace their steps and cease from neglecting the culture, but rather, welcoming it back from the long years of negligence, compensating it with quality appreciation as we discover the rich beauty inherent in it.

The dislocation of people from familiar place and customs leads to the shattering of their feelings of belongingness and identity. Women suffer more as the patriarchal set up not only ignores their sufferings due to the dislocation but also has customs and traditions that treat woman as property and exploit, suppress and marginalize them.

Students’ satisfaction has become an essence of success in today’s highly competitive world. In service industry specifically the education industry, communication is vital to determine students’ satisfaction. Past researches indicated that, most meaning of conversational messages comes from non-verbal communication. Therefore, this study intended to examine the relationship of non-verbal communication cues to students’ satisfaction. A total of 300 respondents were sampled from all around UiTM Kedah. They were evaluated on their perception on lecturers’ non-verbal communication behavior that would lead to their satisfaction to the services provided. The results of the study illustrate that three of the non-verbal communication cues were significant and positively related to students’ satisfaction. Kinesics and paralanguage was rated as among the non-verbal communication cues that provided the most impact on students’ satisfaction. However the result also indicated that there was no significant relationship between physical appearances of the lecturers to the students’ satisfaction. Overall, students’ in UiTM Kedah are fairly satisfied with the non-verbal communication cues of the lecturers. The present study caters for a wide spectrum of students and development professionals, especially those who are interested in non-verbal communication related issues. It is highly hoped that the information gleaned from the present study may assist all service employees specifically in understanding better, the importance of non-verbal communication and its effects on students’ satisfaction.

The present study was intended to investigate possible relationships of the development of EFL teachers’ possible selves with teacher efficacy and students’ achievement. Eighty seven teachers selected from different Language Institutes participated in this study and filled in EFL teachers’ Possible Selves Development Questionnaire as well as Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale (TSES). The participants were also requested to specify the mean scores of the achievement tests they administered to their students in the previous term. The results of data analysis indicated significant relationships of teachers’ possible selves development with their self-efficacy and students’ achievement. To investigate which components of possible selves might have more predictive power in predicting teacher’s self-efficacy and student’s achievement, regression analysis was run. The four subscales of possible selves – ideal, ought-to, actual, and feared selves- were found to be good predictors of teacher self-efficacy and only three subscales of possible selves including ideal, ought-to, and actual selves were strongly correlated with student’s achievement. We conclude by suggesting that a sense of self-efficacy as well as a concern for students’ achievement should be incorporated into the possible selves of EFL teachers.

This study examined the influence of religiosity and perceived social support on risky sexual behaviour among undergraduate students of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Two hundred and fifty (250) students were randomly selected from among undergraduate students of Ekiti State University for the study. Six hypotheses were tested using the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire to measure Religiosity, the Multidimensional Scale for Perceived Social Support to measure Perceived Social Support, and the Sexual Risk Taking Questionnaire to measure Risky Sexual Behaviour. The results revealed that religiosity has a significant effect on risky sexual behaviour [F (246) = 22.13, P < 0.01]. It was also found that perceived social support has a significant effect on risky sexual behaviour [F (246) = 4.56, P < 0.05]. However, religiosity and perceived social support do not have any significant interaction effect on risky sexual behaviour [F (246) = 0.173, P > 0.05]. Findings from this study also revealed that males exhibit more risky sexual behaviour than females with significant difference in the mean scores of males (5.56) and females (2.70), [t (248) = 4.98, P < 0.01]. Nonetheless, females and males do not differ significantly on perceived social support [t (248) = -0.59, P > 0.05]. These findings were discussed in the light of available literature and it is recommended that to curtail risky sexual behaviour among Nigeria undergraduates, they should be encouraged to be highly religious, get involved in religious activities, and belief in God. Relevant authorities should also put in place measures to educate the citizenry, by embarking on a large scale enlightenment campaign against indiscriminate sexual involvements through the use of social networks and print and electronic media that would inform and enlighten young people about the consequences of indiscriminate sexual practices. Young people should also be provided with actual social support by friends, families, and significant others as findings revealed that young people who enjoy greater social support are less likely to engage in indiscriminate sexual practices.

The curriculum is beneficial activities that provide many benefits to students. The purpose of this study was to look at the students' perception of involvement in extra-curricular activities of the students' personality enhancement that can impact the discipline and leadership style. A total of 278 students have taken as samples, representing an estimated population of 1000 student semester 1 and 2 Polytechnics Ibrahim Sultan (PIS) that are directly involved in the subject of AR 101 and AR 201 Co-curriculum Curriculum 2. Researchers use questionnaires circulated to selected respondents. The data obtained from the findings of the questionnaire were analyses by using that Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 19. The results of this analysis that will generate a percentage and mean based on data obtained from the questionnaire. The results mean the study was 0.84 for positive questions and items for item negative 0.20 question that reflects students agree that extra-curricular activities capable of improving the personality.

The magnificent and painful experience of falling in love is unforgettable for the most of the young people. This article describes young adults’ (N=55) experiences of falling in love: where love begins, what happens when you fall in love, what kind of phases the process of falling in love comprises, and what are the problems that falling in love causes like. Falling in love turned out to be a fascinating temporary metamorphosis that responds to the (partly taught and predetermined) dreams but provides painful disappointments as well. The models and images given in public can be spuriously unbalanced: falling in love is not just happiness and joy. Instead, falling in love is a learning experience that moulds the young people’s identity and self-esteem.