30 articles in this issue
Heba Zaytoon
The vast literature on discourse analysis includes many studies which investigate different types of texts and attempts to identify the properties that characterize them. The present study proposes an analysis of the narrative aspect in decoration discour... see more
Goutam Karmakar,Shri Krishan Rai,Sanjukta Banerjee
One of the plebeian environmental moral dilemmas that are noticed in third world nations are the dialectical assimilation in between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. Owing to some devout and semipolitical prejudices some people are taking the whip hand o... see more
Saeed Mehrpour,Hessam Agheshteh
Believing that providing EFL teachers with effective supervisory feedback during the post-observation conference is essential, researchers in the current study report on the views of Iranian EFL teachers and supervisors as to what constitutes effective su... see more
Sulaiman Alnujaidi
This study analyzed the educational and instructional implications of Social Network Sites (SNS) in the ESL/EFL teaching and learning context. SNS's definition, types, classifications, features, positive and negative aspects, their educational implication... see more
Ahmad Gholi,Masoud Ahmadi Mosaabad
One of crucial issues which Western travel writers in their journeys to the Orient specifically in the height of colonialism in the nineteenth has addressed is Oriental women. Entrapped and conditioned by their cultural baggage and operating on the basis ... see more
Majed Alanazi
This study investigates 40 Saudi EFL learners’ receptive knowledge of synonyms in English. It also tests whether the participants’ English proficiency level plays a role in their comprehension of English synonyms. To achieve this, the researcher designed ... see more
Ali Dabbagh
This study sought to evaluate the effect of dialogue journal writing on writing performance as well as its different sub-components, namely content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics (Following Polio, 2013). Participants were 84 EFL in... see more
Azhar A. Alkazwini
A brief history of the Scots dialect shall be presented, and, the salient Linguistic Features that characterize Scots shall be discussed. Some observers have different views regarding these linguistic features. I shall provide examples of these difference... see more
Hassan Ali Abdullah Al-Momani
This study aims at investigating the ethnic identity crisis and the problems of acculturation and enculturation in Evelyn Shakir's "Let's dance." The study will present a close reading analysis of Shakir's story highlighting the problem of constructing th... see more
Mona Turjoman
This sociolinguistics study investigated the maintenance of the Arabic language among three migrant Arab Muslim families, who have been living in the USA for at least ten years, particularly among the children. Each family has children between the ages of... see more
Mehdi Shokouhi,Parviz Birjandi,Parviz Maftoon
It is widely accepted that reflective teaching in its purely cognitive and introspective sense cannot be responsive to the dilemmas and the problems with which teachers encounter during their teaching practice. Thus, the present study believes that the ve... see more
Anas Huneety,Bassil Mashaqba,Sabri Shehadeh .Y. Al-Shboul,Abdallah Tayseer Alshdaifat
This paper aims to analyze the use of cohesion in Arabic and English religious spoken texts. Twelve texts, delivered by some of the most eloquent Imams, were analyzed in light of the model proposed by Halliday & Hasan (1976). The study reveals that lexica... see more
Nawal Gholami,Mohammad Taghi Farvardin
Few studies have investigated the effects of input-based and output-based instructions on collocational knowledge of EFL learners. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the effects of these instructional approaches on Iranian EFL learners’ productive kno... see more
A Young Park
Extensive Reading (ER) is a reading approach that aims to make covering large amounts of reading material enjoyable for language learners. Many experimental studies have showed the effectiveness of the ER approach on reading fluency, the ability to read w... see more
Hoda Divsar,Robab Heydari
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Zulaikha Khairuddin
Speaking skill is an important skill among the four English skills and it is also known as expressive skill. Hence, it is important for students to speak in English confidently and using speaking strategies in order to avoid anxiousness. The two obj... see more
Mania Nosratinia,Elham Mohammadi
This study was an attempt to systematically investigate the comparative impact of teaching Metacognitive Strategies (MS) and Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' Reading Comprehension (RC). The participant... see more
Marwah Kareem Ali,Anne Althea Christopher,Munif Zarirruddin Fikri B. Nordin
It is a fact that the role of pronouns, especially personal pronouns, in representing socio-political ideologies is not new as it has been studied extensively in relation to political discourse. However, this role needs to be examined in the newspaper dis... see more
Shahram JamaliNesari,Elahe Kamari
Abnormalities of language and other forms of communication are among the significant characteristics of autistic children. The goal of the present research is to investigate and compare linguistic properties of Persian-speaking autistic children with thei... see more
Taofeek Dalamu
The study examines Systemic Functional Theory (SFT) as a tool of examining text, and perhaps, text of any dimension as long as it falls within the grammatical organs of the clause. The author provides explanations for the theory from its relevant source(s... see more
Azam Badrkoohi,Parviz Maftoon
With the growing understanding of the process of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), more and more emphasis has been put on the learner factors that affect the success or otherwise of SLA. These factors have come to be studied under the general title of “I... see more
Baker Bani-Khair,Nayef M. H. Alshboul,Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh,Imad Al-Khawaldeh,Mohammad Ababneh
This paper focuses on the issue of violence in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) through explaining some of the cultural and historical implications of violence in the 1960s such as Vietnam War, the Mexican war and also the explosion of the feminist m... see more
Golchin Pourqoli,Akram Pouralifard
This study examines the claims about Adiga Arvinda’s anti-protagonist’s, Balram Hawaie’s status as representive voice of subaltern, in his controversial novel, the White Tiger (2008), which also gave way to much debate over its ‘authenticity’. By alluding... see more
Nurul Soleha binti Mohd Noor,Arbaayah Ali Termizi
Existing studies had shown that gender stereotyping is still evident in contemporary Malaysian English literature particularly in novels. By using the concepts of ‘gender performance’ and ‘performativity’ introduced by Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990... see more
Innocent Sourou Koutchadé
This article aims at examining the language of a political speech through the linguistic theory of pragmatics. The focus of the study is, specifically, to identify speech acts used in Buhari’s address at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly. ... see more
Sina Movaghati
Paul Bowles’ prodigious novel, The Sheltering Sky, is an epitome of a narrative about the Modern Man and his existentialistic dilemmas. After six decades from its initial publication, The Sheltering Sky, still, attracts multitudinous attention for its eso... see more
Ismail Mohammed Hamid Rushwan
Reading comprehension is developed through successful interaction between the reader and the text. This interaction is the major factor that plays the crucial role in comprehension. ESP has a strong and palpable presence in the curricula of Saud universit... see more
Abdolvahed Zarifi
Providing different types of corrective feedback on learners’ writing is a common practice in writing classes. Applied linguists have also invested huge attempt in investigating the impact that coorective feedback might have on developing different langua... see more
Imtiaz Hassan Taj,Fatimah Ali,Muhammad Aslam Sipra,Waqar Ahmad
The study was conducted to investigate the impact of a model, created with the help of computer and mobile phone, on the EFL vocabulary learning of the students at a public university on a Preparatory Year Program. The study used a quasi-experimental pret... see more
Arshad Abd Samad,Nurul Iman Arshad