10 articles in this issue
Ahmad El-Sharif
Systemic Functional Linguistics explicates how texts communicate ideational, interpersonal, and textual meanings. Texts produced by cultural and pedagogic institutions, such as museums, depend on several discursive choices to construct interpersonal meani... see more
Babatunde, Samuel Akanbi
This research decolonises the concept of new native speakers to mean “those who are born in the inner circle” and establishes that, there are native speakers of English in Nigeria. More recently, a group of speakers has been identified known as; the Engli... see more
Hanadi Abdulrahman Khadawardi
Vocabulary mastery is essential for second language (L2) students. Several trends in foreign language vocabulary research and pedagogy have emerged during the 21st century. Perhaps the most significant is the technological revolution and the ever-increasi... see more
Mohammad Hadi M. Al-Malkawi,Naser N. AlBzour
The major purpose of this paper is to investigate how Jordanian Chechens premeditatedly try to maintain major characteristics and components of their language and identity in their folk lyrics. The study evidently reveals that such poems substantially con... see more
Bat-Erdene Batsukh
For more than a decade, PMT and SMT models have dominated the field of machine translation, and neural machine translation has emerged as a new paradigm for machine translation by the 2015. Neural machine translation provides a simple modeling mechanism t... see more
Moustafa Mohamed Abdelmohsen
This study proposed to enquire into the efficacy of a developed writing module in honing the critical thinking skills of Omani General Foundation Program students. The study utilized a pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design. The study participan... see more
Khalid Al-Seghayer
This study employs an explanatory, convergent parallel, mixed methods design to investigate the perceived self-efficacy of 145 Saudi teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) when engaging in technology-assisted language learning (TALL). These teach... see more
Parastoo Babashamasi,Nooreen Binti Noordin,Sedigheh Shakib Kotamjani
Metacognitive strategies have been investigated as facilitating tools for students’ reading comprehension. No studies have investigated the effect of systematic teaching of metacognitive reading strategies on students’ critical thinking skills. The presen... see more
Abdul Bari Rahmany,Mohammad Rizwan Khan
The textbook is an integral component of the ELT classroom. They need to be evaluated periodically, as the needs of learners change according to time, context, and approaches to identify their strengths and weakness. The aim of this research is to evaluat... see more
Nada Saleh Alsamhan,Fatimah Almutrafi
This study aims to investigate the sociolinguistic functions of code-switching in tweets. It also examines the potential effects of two social variables, namely gender and education, as well as whether language choice relates to topic. The study adopts My... see more