30 articles in this issue
Fateme Ghanei Motlagh,Khalil Motallebzade,Mohammad Ali Fatemi
Teacher’s sense of humor is like a miracle in creating effective teaching and learning environments where there is no place for stress and anxiety but instead intrinsic motivation is enhanced. The present study aims mainly, to explore the effects of teach... see more
Hassan Soleimani,Mahboubeh Rahmanian
This study builds on the innovative construct of task-induced involvement. It investigates different first and second language glossing in “involvement load hypothesis”. In order to do our study, 66 learners from two different English institutes were clas... see more
Ahmad Yaghoubi,Somayeh Ardestani
The current study is an attempt to investigate the explicit or the implicit instruction of metadiscourse markers and the writing skill improvement. The participants of the study (N = 90) were female Iranian students at Kish Institute of Science and Techno... see more
Samira Pahlavanpoorfard,Afshin Soori
Today, using computer is common in all fields. Education is not an exception. In fact, this approach of technology has been using increasingly in language classrooms. We have witnessed there are more and more language teachers are using computers in their... see more
Roya Ranjbar Mohammadi,Ali Akbar Ansarin,Hadi Ziyadi
Studies on visual word recognition have resulted in different and sometimes contradictory proposals as Multi-Trace Memory Model (MTM), Dual-Route Cascaded Model (DRC), and Parallel Distribution Processing Model (PDP). The role of the number of syllables i... see more
Moussa Ahmadian,Majid Amerian,Azar Tajabadi
Often associated with Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory, collaborative dialogue as a teaching technique has been frequently studied over the past few decades. There has been a great debate among experts and researchers regarding the effectiveness of this t... see more
Neda Mohammadi,Khalil Motallebzadeh,Hamid Ashraf
As Keesing-Style (2003) puts out, although the concept of critical pedagogy (CP) has been proposed for three decades, it has not been employed in the educational settings. This study investigated the effect of employing critical pedagogy on the improvemen... see more
Shima Ghiabi
The present study aims at investigating learners’ perceptions on the use of a novel as an extensive reading in a college EFL reading course. For this purpose, fifty Iranian EFL students read and received instructions on an unabridged short novel in additi... see more
Rehana Kousar,Nida Sarfraz
This work explores Black Consciousness in A Raisin in the Sun by Hansberry. Black Consciousness elaborates an awareness of and pride in one’s identity as a black person. It analyzes A Raisin in the Sun by applying the theory of Black Consciousness under t... see more
Zhila Mohammadnia,Abdolreza Khalili
This study investigated the effect of visual input enhancement on the vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL learners. One hundred and thirty-two EFL learners from elementary, intermediate and advanced proficiency levels were assigned to six groups, two group... see more
Biook Behnam,Sepideh Rafiei Sakhaei,Nesa Nabifar
This paper reports a comprehensive study of the politeness phenomenon in Pinter’s well-known play, “The Birthday party”. It aims at figuring out how politeness strategies are used by the characters and how the variables of power and distance influence the... see more
Hooshang Khoshsima,Forouzan Rezaeian Tiyar
The present study aimed to find out the effect of summarizing and presentation strategies on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ reading comprehension. 61 students were selected and divided into two experimental and control groups. The homogeneity of their... see more
Hamideh Rezaie,Abusaied Janfaza,Afshin Soori
The current study investigated the effect of task-based instruction in improving the reading comprehension ability among the Iranian EFL students. To conduct this study, a sample of 80 Iranian EFL students in Islamic Azad University, Larestan, Iran served... see more
Habsah Hussin
Graduate students furthering their studies at Master level are mature adult learners who bring with them a myriad of educational backgrounds and professional experiences into their studies. Delivering knowledge and information to them the traditiona... see more
Abdullah F. Al-Badarneh
This paper absolves John Milton from any critical and feminist accusation of being anti-feminist in Paradise Lost. Such defense of Milton is based on the close reading and analysis of the passages that focus on Adam and Eve in the text. This study highlig... see more
Farid Mohammadi
The aim of this essay is to investigate discursive, cognitive and social aspects of manipulation in regard to the dialogues of the literary fictional character of Gandalf in the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings. Accordingly, the researcher has taken a mul... see more
Parmis Tasharofi
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of the acclaimed boldly feminist novels of the 20th century. In general, this article draws on feminism and what looms large in feminism which is called sexism. In particular it focuses on domestic ... see more
Mansoor Fahim,Atefeh Rezanejad
Critical thinking defined as the ability to think about your own thinking with a more analytical perspective, has long been an important side of education history. Recently there has been much attention devoted to this concept, particularly in the domain ... see more
Abbas Mehrabi Boshrabadi,Reza Biria,Maryam Hodaeian
It is generally agreed today that lexical cohesion is one of the fundamental elements of the text texture achieved through lexical semantic relations dominating the arrangement of propositional units in a text. Accordingly, this study sought to compare an... see more
Vahid Rafieyan,Maryam Sharafi-Nejad,Ayoob Damavand,Lin Siew Eng,Abdul Rashid Mohamed
Language learners’ awareness of target language pragmatic features is influenced by individual difference variables, the least explored one being emotional intelligence. To investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and pragmatic awarenes... see more
Ali Jamalinesari
The most useful key words to understand Pirandello and at the same time the major recurring ideas and motifs, on which his novelty and greatness depend, include reality, illusion, art and identity. Pirandello seems to have raised several deep questions ab... see more
Natasha Pourdana,Mahnaz Naziri,John S. Rajeski
This study is an endeavor to demonstrate the presence of various kinds of cohesive devices through English Textbook and their possible impacts on Iranian High school students’ reading comprehension. . To homogenize the subjects and divide them into two in... see more
Saman Shariati-Rad,Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya
By integrating the discourses of the Vietnam War into the texture of his short story "Vitamins," Raymond Carver would like to emphasize that the war was not only fought outside the United States. The present paper is an attempt to show how Carver connects... see more
Parviz Birjandi,Atefeh Rezanejad
An effective teacher is defined as someone who achieves goals which either directly or indirectly focus on the learning of their students (Anderson, 1991). It goes without saying that, what can lead to a change in the behavior and learning of the pu... see more
Chin Wen Chien
This study analyzes 58 non-native pre-service elementary school English teachers’ narratives about their pronunciation learning and teaching. Two important findings emerge in this study. First, participants did not have the same attitude toward thei... see more
Shaopeng Li,Lianrui Yang
The present study aims to investigate the general characteristics of topic-prominent typological interlanguage development of Chinese learners of English in terms of acquiring subject-prominent English structures from the discourse perspective. We have se... see more
Fa´doro` Jacob Oludare
Language contact among Akokoid, Yoruboid and Edoid has resulted in extensive borrowing from Yoruboid and Edoid to Akokoid. Thus, the speech forms subsumed under Akokoid exhibit lexical items which are similar to Yoruboid and Edoid. To the best of our know... see more
Fatemeh Esmaeili,Biook Behnam
The present study aims to examine corrective feedback and learner uptake in classroom interactions. Inspired by Lyster and Ranta’s corrective feedback framework (1997), this study intends to describe and analyze the patterns of corrective feedback utilize... see more
Natasha Pourdana,Somayeh Sahebalzamani,John S. Rajeski
The present study investigates the impact of English metaphorical awareness on the vocabulary retention by 60 intermediate EFL learners in Iran. Participants in this study were all English as a Foreign language (EFL) learners placed in the intermediate le... see more
Nader Assadi Aidinlou,Leila Masoomi Far
The present study was an attempt to investigate the relationship of self-efficacy beliefs, writing strategies, and correct use of conjunctions in EFL learners. The participants were 67 EFL learners who studied English in Iran English Institute, Kara... see more