30 articles in this issue
Sedigheh Shakib Kotamjani,Habsah Hussin
Academic writing skills are essential tools that postgraduate students reading for their doctoral degree have to master to be able to produce dissertations, research reports and academic assignments of quality in the course of their studies; and publish r... see more
David González Gándara
A good deal of authors have spotted the crucial factors to get into account in order to classify tasks for their study. Although the role of the student in the task has been studied before, it has not been considered as a key factor in some of the most in... see more
Rahman Sahragard,Moslem Sadeghi
The aim of this study was to explore the concept of role identity among Iranian English language teachers. Narrative inquiry was adopted as an approach of the study. Twenty-one Iranian English language teachers from three educational contexts (university,... see more
Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs,Tanecia Tasneem Prue,Attia Ijaz
The present study investigates the effect of the explicit instruction of formulaic sequences in pre-writing vocabulary activities on foreign language writing. To this end, a total of 81 Saudi pre-intermediate learners of English as a foreign language part... see more
Fateme Saeb
Perceptions and perspectives about corrective feedback (CF) have recently attracted some attention in the CF literature. Few studies, however, have delved into students’ and teachers’ CF perceptions and preferences and compared them. This study is an atte... see more
Muhlisin Rasuki
This paper reports incidental acquisition of English nominal structures by a young EFL learner under comprehension-based lessons. The learner was exposed to a series of English sentences containing the target structures through listen-and-do activities. T... see more
Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh,Sepideh Alavi
The study investigated short- and long-term vocabulary retention through a digital video game. Participants were 241 male students (age 12–18) randomly assigned to three treatments, namely, Readers who learned vocabulary through intensive reading, Players... see more
Ferma Lekesizalin
In this paper, I argue that Joseph Conrad portrays the imperialist ideology as fundamentally flawed in “Heart of Darkness". The inconsistency of imperialism is blatantly evident in the contradiction between the perceptions of Kurtz as “an emissary of pity... see more
Hossein Khodabakhshzadeh,Mansooreh Hosseinnia,Fatemeh Ahmadi
The purpose of this study is examining the language identity among male and female language learners in Iran. 1268 English language learners from different parts of the country from different ages and Iranian ethnicity and English language proficiency lev... see more
Ahmad Zulfadhli Nokman,Azman Che Mat,Ahmad Fakrulazizi Abu Bakar,Nor Shaifura Musilehat,Ahmad Nazuki Marzuki Yaakub
This study focuses on exploring the influences of the first-language influence on the Arabic pronunciation among Terengganuian learners. The study has involved five students, who were born in Terengganu, who communicate using the Terengganuian dialect. Th... see more
Meiling Fu
This article intends to investigate the doctor’s mind style on William Carlos Williams in his collection of poems Spring and All. Research shows that Williams’s doctor’s life makes him shape a different view of the world. He always observes something diff... see more
Ruzanna Karapetyan,Margaret Apresyan
The aim of the given study is to examine the use of inserted clauses in the legal discourse and their unique role in this speech genre. The investigation of the topic is conducted in line with the principles of Functional Discourse Grammar. In the c... see more
Hooshang Khoshsima,Seyyed Morteza Hashemi Toroujeni
Different individuals provide different translations of different qualities of the same text. This may be due to one’s dominant cognitive style and individuals’ particular personal characteristics (Khoshsima & Hashemi Toroujeni, 2017) in general or ambigu... see more
Faisal Said Al-Maamari
This study presents a contrastive rhetorical analysis of 20 argumentative Arabic and English editorials in argument structure. Samples were selected from two daily newspapers with equally wide distribution, and articles were written by their respective na... see more
Alisha Vandana Lakra,Md. Mojibur Rahman
Change is the nature of every living language for better communication. These changes can be phonological, morphological, syntactical and lexical, because of various linguistic affects. The synchronic and diachronic study of language proves that it ... see more
Tahere Jolani,Mohammadreza Pahlavannezhad,Hasan Khojaste
Semiotics is one of the branches seem that comprehending of It is very helpful in the process of programming the new structures in the mass media programming ; and one of these new formats called public service announcement (PSA) is not an exception ... see more
Adil Ishag
This study attempted to provide a general view of the situation and perspective on foreign language learning and teaching at the tertiary level in Sudan, with special focus on English and German. It further explored motivation and reasons for majoring in ... see more
Azman Che Mat,Azarudin Awang,Ahmad Zulfadhli Nokman,Nurshaifura Musilehat,Ahmad Fakrulazizi Abu Bakar
Role playing is among the language activities that stimulate language learners to use the language they are learning. However, a successful activity is always challenging especially when the learners are beginners. Therefore, a special arrangement needs t... see more
Anwar A. H. Al-Athwary
The present paper investigates the multilingual written texts of the signboards in the public space of Yemen. It attempts to apply Reh's (2004) typology of multilingual writing. Reh introduces four strategies of multilingualism: duplicating, fragmentary, ... see more
Ali Falah Alqahtani
Using Dörnyei’s (2009) L2 Motivational Self System as the main theoretical framework, this paper reports a study of Saudi military cadets’ motivation to learn English. The study aimed to: a) investigate the usefulness of Dörnyei’s model for understa... see more
Mohamed Fathi Helaly Khalaf
The postwar world period was riddled with rapid changes at the different levels. Many people felt they were not able to come to terms with such ongoing changes and had to find a way to coexist with the status-quo. Postmodernism looks upon man as a social ... see more
Khadijeh Taherifard,Razieh Eslamieh
This paper offers a Lacanian/feminist reading of Night, Mother by the American playwright Marsha Norman. The play Night, Mother will be read according to Lacan’s point of view and the concepts of identity and identity formation are studied in this pa... see more
Husam Al-Momani,Abdullah Jaradat,Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh,Baker Bani-Khair
This study contributes to the existing literature on interlanguage pragmatics by investigating intermediate Jordanian English Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ gratitude speech act realization compared to that of native American English speakers. The study... see more
Mojgan Rashtchi,Fatemeh Pirali
Focus on form (FonF) instruction has been the source of much debate in the domain of SLA and different studies have addressed its impact on different language skills and sub skills. The present study employed proactive and reactive FonF instructions... see more
Mojgan Eyvazi,Mohsen Momen,Homa Poorkaramali
Iranian literature, like other literary works throughout the world, follows the social issues in society and attempt to depict them. One of such issues is portraying women position in the society. The present study focuses on three different novels by Ira... see more
Le Thi Bich Thuan
This paper analyses the grandmother, the main character, in A Good Man Is Hard to Find, one of Flannery O’Connor’s most famous short stories, in the light of pragmatic conversation, mainly including the theory of politeness. On the basis of the results, i... see more
Mohammad SuleimanAl-sauodi
This research aims at studying the affectivity and influence in Mahmoud Darwish’s “Now, in Exile” from the collection Almond Blossoms and Beyond and Mohammed Al-Thubaiti’s “Consort” from the collection The Sand Position. It also examines the image of the ... see more
Amir Mohammadian
The interrelation of culture and language is to the extent that many classifications of culture are based on linguistic factors. In this article, high and low context cultures division is assessed on English and Persian as they belong to different cultura... see more
Ameerchund (Ashraf) Maharaj
Gaining a wider vocabulary is fundamental to language learning. It follows then that the faster students engage and learn new words, the faster will be their proficiency with the target language. Multi-Dimensional Vocabulary Acquisition (or MDVA) means ap... see more
John Wallen
The present article examines the ways in which the travels and journeys in Arabia and other Muslim lands of Richard Francis Burton, the nineteenth-century explorer and writer have, since the influential work of EdwardW. Said on Orientalism, been some... see more