30 articles in this issue
Parvaneh Khosravizadeh,Saeedeh Jafari Pazoki
Advertising strategies are some factors in the content and form of advertisements which are intended to have certain effects on ad viewers or potential customers. These effects could be defined as the kind of cognitive responses they are expected to elici... see more
Abdulmohsen A. Dashti
In light of sociolinguist phonological change, the following study investigates the shift of [?] to [k] sound in the speech of Kuwaitis and argues against the Bedouin/ Sedentary distinction. The main hypothesis is twofold: first the shift seems to be driv... see more
Somayeh Shabani
Racism is the main theme in Toni Morisson’s The Bluest Eye. The little black girl’s long lasting yearn for blue eyes has been linked to the standards of America’s society in 1940’s which associated beauty to being white. Although instances of racism are r... see more
Khalid Ahmad Yas,Arbaayah Ali Termizi,Rosli Talif,Hardev Kaur
The paper aims to utilise chaos theory as a methodology and perspective to analyse Shelagh Stephenson’s science drama An Experiment with an Air Pump thematically and structurally. It is highly pertinent to mention here that the discovery of the ... see more
Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi,Nahid Rahmanian
Having developed foreign language proficiency, a large number of EFL learners experience some degrees of foreign language loss later in life since English has no social function in many EFL contexts including Iran. However, there are some language learner... see more
Abdulaziz Alshahrani
The current status of research on working memory (WM) and its components in second language acquisition (SLA) was examined in this review. Literature search was done on four aspects using search terms in Google Scholar. Hence, the review results are given... see more
Khalil Motallebzadeh,Hanieh Garmabi,Mehri Bakhtiari Fayendari
In educational world, the language teaching pendulum is swinging away from methods to postmethod pedagogy although its actual emergence in some contexts is under doubt. The present study aims at pursuing whether Iranian English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL)... see more
Bakri Hussein Suleiman Al-Azzam
The study aims at identifying the cultural problems, encountered in the translation of Jordanian proverbs into English. The significance of the study stems from the fact that it stresses on the social, colloquial, and folkloric use of proverbs that adds t... see more
Mania Nosratinia,Faranak Amiri Hossaini
The thrust of the present study was to systematically investigate the relationship between EFL learners' Self-Efficacy (SE), Critical Thinking (CT), and their Autonomy (AU). To this end, 196 male and female EFL learners, within the age range of 20 to 30 (... see more
Abeer Al-Ghazo,Issam Taamneh
The present study investigates the effect of push out hypothesis in language acquisition that is based on Swain’s push out hypothesis (1985) on promoting Jordanian language learners' reading performance. The sample of the study consists of two classes of ... see more
Masoud Khalili Sabet,Abdorreza Tahriri,Somayeh Rostami Shirkoohi
The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of two pre- task activities of reading: pre- taught vocabulary and brainstorming in EFL learners’ reading comprehending. To this end, three intact classes in a private Eng... see more
Maram M. Samman
This paper traces the intercultural journey of a young Aboriginal girl into the hegemonic white society. Rita Joe crossed the imaginary border that separates her reserve from the other Canadian society living in the urban developed city. Through this play... see more
Masoud Khalili Sabet,Amir Madavi Zafarghandi,Arezoo Norouz Karkaraq
The attempt in this study is to investigate the effect of teaching critical thinking through problem solving on reading comprehension performance of EFL intermediate learners. In so doing, forty including twenty male and twenty female intermediate s... see more
Amthal Mohammed Abbas,Sarab Kadir Mugair
This study is an attempt to investigate and analyze the linguistic forms of modal verbs in three Iraqi dialects. These modal verbs are "can", "will" and "must” and the dialects under study are Musiliyah that is spoken in Mosul province in the north of Ira... see more
Hossein khodabakhshzadeh,Farideh Samadi
Collaborative writing has gained interest in the last decade; however, as stated by Shin, Lidster and Sabraw (2016) more research is required to delve into various aspects of this multifarious class activity. This true experimental research examined the e... see more
Adaoma Igwedibia
A number of works have been done by scholars on the study and interpretation of Audre Lorde’s poetry, especially through the lens of literary and critical analysis. However, Lorde’s poems have not been analyzed pragmatically. A lot may have been written a... see more
Mojtaba Aghajani,Hanieh Amanzadeh
This article has been retracted: please see AIAC PTY.LTD. Policy on Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement.(http://www.aiac.org.au/journals/Subtemps/PEPMS.pdf)The Editors of International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Litera... see more
Ibrahim R. Alqarni
This study aims at exploring the vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) employed by Saudi Freshmen students majoring in English as a foreign language (EFL). The participants are 81 Saudi male students in their first semester in the English Department and T... see more
Esmaeil Zohdi
During the colonial period, British colonizers marched to the Third and Fourth World countries to exploit them for the purpose of colonizers’ economical uplifts. Therefore, colonizers internalized their own superiority over the inferior colonized countrie... see more
Kuldip Kaur,Afida Mohamad Ali
Conducting Academic Oral Presentation (AOP) is an endeavour for undergraduates although it is a key academic genre for undergraduates. Despite its importance, there remains a paucity of studies on this oral genre in the Malaysian context as shown in... see more
Nilufar Ebrahimpur,Khalil Motallebzadeh,Mitra Zeraatpishe
Studies have been done on finding construct-irrelevant factors and cognitive processes involved in test taking. Previous studies have explored correlations between reading comprehension (RC) ability and psychological variables such as creativity and intel... see more
Sahar Abdelkarim Asad Mashaqi,Kifah (Moh’d Khair) Ali Al Omari
This study focuses on the different forms of subalternity, the effect of marginalizing subaltern characters, and the postcolonial discourse among characters coming from different backgrounds in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child (2015). A close reading of... see more
Negin Malekshahi,Mohadeseh Amini Harsini
The present study investigated the effect of form-focused (FoF) tasks on enhancement of Iranian EFL learners’ coherent writing. In this regard, the researchers compared the effectiveness of dictogloss (DIG) task as an output-based task and consciousness r... see more
Maryam Farzam
The present study aimed at exploring the effects of cognitive and metacognitive strategy training on the WTC of Iranian EFL learners. The participants of the study included 90 Iranian EFL learners at the intermediate level of English language proficiency.... see more
Baktiar Sadjadi,Alireza Ahmadirad
The present study seeks to critically investigate Bozorg Alavi’s celebrated Persian novel, Cašmhayaš (Her Eyes), in terms of Louis Althusser’s concepts of ideology, interpellation and, most significantly, the subject/Subject model. Althusser developed the... see more
Leonardo Veliz
This paper discusses some implications and applications of the field of Cognitive linguistics (CL) to the teaching of English as a second, foreign or additional language (ESL, EFL or EAL). Some of the areas to which CL has immensely contributed are the te... see more
Yousef Rajabi
This study was an attempt to examine Iranian ESP teachers’ beliefs and their ties with classroom practices. To do so through convenient sampling, twenty five ESP teachers teaching English for specific purposes in different disciplines such as Chemistry, A... see more
Ade Mulyanah M.Hum
This research intends to describe the newest survey on the language attitude of the Sundanese, West Java, Indonesia Urban Community against Sundanese, Indonesian, and foreign language. The methodology of the reserach is... see more
Mozhgan Sedaghatkar
Vocabulary learning is essential for language acquisition; however, it is considered problematic for the second language learners. As a teacher of General English Course, I witness majority of students state that "It’s difficult for me to remember long wo... see more
Ramin Farhadi,Mohammad Amin Mozaheb
One of the goals of Howard Barker’s Theatre of Catastrophe is to challenge conventional view of historical events and writing of history. Barker’s historical approach is to first identify the repressive power institutions and their destructive effects on ... see more