15 articles in this issue
Soyhan Egitim
This article describes the practical and theoretical implications of EFL teachers’ prior language learning experiences for their teacher identity development. Every language teacher possesses different values, beliefs, and underlying assumptions about tea... see more
Maryam Mashoura,Abdollah Baradaran,Ghassemi Nazanin
The main focus of the present study was the comparative effect of two various types of homework and feedback (Audio-Taped Homework Feedback and Written Homework Feedback) on EFL learners’ speaking complexity, accuracy and fluency. Also, there are three de... see more
Reem Alsadoon
Spelling is an essential skill in EFL writing especially if writing is frequently used in texting through social media and smartphones. The study surveys Arabic EFL learners about their perceptions of using spelling correction tools: spell checkers and au... see more
Khemendra Kamal Kumar
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Bapu, or Mahatma is no longer perceived as a person but a belief now. His views on non-violence, love and care, and the quest for Truth are far reaching than one can imagine. Apart from many virtuous deeds, Gandhi was instrumen... see more
Waleed Mahmoud Hamdoun
The main reason of conducting this study is grounded on my rational to provide further guidance to curriculum staff in my professional context, College of Saudi Petroleum Services Polytechnic (SPSP), to develop the current English program taught to vocati... see more
Amatul Hafeez Alvi,Wissam Lutfy,Ghada Alghabash,Saher Asif,Marium Jamal
Technology has brought forth a rapid evolution in education, specifically in language teaching and learning. Integrating audio-visual aids in English as a Foreign Language classes (EFL) has been a common pedagogical practice that embalms students’ centere... see more
Faisal M. Alqahtani
English as a foreign language (EFL) and translation studies have argued that linguistic equivalence is not sufficient to transfer intended cultural meanings of the target language (TL) text. Unlike previous studies, this study investigates and compares th... see more
Hanan Bishara
In my opinion, the art of the novel is an invented female art. It is a product of the hidden depths and interiors of the woman’s suffering. “Every woman is pregnant of her ‘novel’ as one critic argued and therefore, she does not see it necessary to write ... see more
Turki Assulaimani,Haitham Ali Althubaiti
Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital is a potent theoretical device in the analysis of the correlation between familial educational background and individual student performance and outcomes in higher education. The theory of cultural capital enables cu... see more
Adriana Iacono
In the second language classroom, literature has been employed through different methodological approaches. Some of them view literature as a means for deepening language knowledge, while others regard it as a resource to raise multicultural awareness and... see more
Raifu O. Farinde,Wasiu A. Oyedokun-Alli
This article offers a reading of Kole Omotoso’s The Edifice in which he exposes the themes of insensitivity, callousness, aggressiveness, oppression, marginalization and racial discrimination of the whites against the black people successfully. It is clea... see more
Brian Senyo Akrong,Chaka Chaka,Christa van der Walt
This study set out to evaluate three English as an additional language (EAL) textbooks used by junior high schools in the Ho West District of Ghana. It adopted a critical literacy framing and employed purposive sampling to select five junior high schools ... see more
Hiroko Sakaba,Takeshi Okada
This article aims to classify the overall uses of high-frequency English verbs in a novel methodology from both a pattern and meaning perspective, which has not be done in previous studies, with special reference to TAKE and MAKE. In the pattern-based ana... see more
Aliaa Aloufi
Within the advance of generative metrical theory that is concerned with the linguistic study of versification, poetry investigation has been undeniably played a significant role in enhancing such progress. The research of linguistic scholars has been main... see more
Nuha Ahmad Baaqeel
This essay will examine the concept of traumatic identity in My Name is Salma, exploring theories of traumatic identity and their relationship to the self in Arab Literature, the social context of the text and its historical resonance, and representation ... see more