30 articles in this issue
Yuan-Chin Chang
In The Good Lord Bird, Onion’s gender passing and performance can be seen as fluid and transparent. Performance, mobility, fluid and constant change are themes and currents throughout the novel. The dramatic narrative feeds off tensions arising from race ... see more
Saleh Ahmed Saif Abdulmughni
This study tries to investigate the contributory factors in the success and failure in teaching of the four language skills through teaching of literature because literature is critically and crucially relevant to the evolution of a literary sensibility. ... see more
Burnee Dorjsuren,Sainbayar Gundsambuu
From ancient times, Mongolians traditionally devoted themselves to their teachers. Could Mongolians still keep this tradition until today? Do they devote themselves to their teachers? If not, what are the causes and factors? This article aims to respond t... see more
Maryam Esmikhani,Behzad Pourqarib
The research work efforts to examine the postcolonial aspects of Alex Haley’s Roots (1976) in the light of Spivakian postcolonial theories. The argument is based on post-colonial dimensions and the emphasis is put on the notions of the “Subalternity,” “St... see more
Shadi Torabi Sarijaloo,Shahram Kiaei
Richardson's Pamela (1740_1) is replete with elements and incidents that make it worthy enough to be viewed from Freud's perspective. The present study focuses upon how Richardson's characters unconsciously attempt to conceal and repress their own conflic... see more
Atefeh Elekaei,Sajad Faramarzi,Hossein Heidari Tabrizi
The present study was conducted in order to identify the relationship among autonomy, critical thinking ability and listening comprehension ability of Iranian EFL learners. 114 male and female learners learning English as a foreign language participated i... see more
Radwa Ramadan Mahmoud
War is the greatest source of violence in the world. It is the most disastrous expression of tendencies to violence innate to human nature. Iraq has suffered for a long time from the repercussions of war and violence and in this country ravaged by war tra... see more
Shakina Rajendram,Mallika V. Govindarajoo
This article presents the results of a study exploring the aesthetic and critical responses of English as a Second Language (ESL) learners when engaging in the multimodal design of literature texts through films in English and their first language (L1). P... see more
Fatemeh Zahra Nazari Robati
Today TS focus has altered from linguistics to cultural studies. Culture is the way of life; as such every text is culture-bound and includes items that are culture-specific. Translating these cultural-specific items (henceforth CSI) has made translation ... see more
Hiba Nassrullah Mohammed,Nawal Fadhil Abbas
Brown and Levinson's model of politeness (1987) paved the way for linguists to explore the phenomenon of impoliteness. Meanwhile, Brown and Levinson dealt with politeness as a knotty framework applied to soften face threatening acts, other linguists inclu... see more
Hussein Hasan Zeidanin
This paper explores the emancipatory potentials of American women writers of color for victims of gender, class, and the ethnocentric ideologies of racism, colonialism and nationalism. Their struggle against multiple oppressors, on one hand, drive them to... see more
Petr Chalupský
Among the large body of contemporary British novels dealing with the past, one specific genre can be identified, and called, the “novel of recollections” as it revolves around its first person narrator’s coming to terms with the often traumatic memories o... see more
Mohammad Hossein Hekmatzadeh,Laleh Khojasteh,Nasrin Shokrpour
Despite the fact that Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is an important factor in one’s success in terms of working environment, it is believed that emotional quotient or EQ plays a more important role. With that in mind, this study investigated the relationship... see more
Weiwei Xu
This paper aims to identify the disillusionment with metropolitan-centred cosmopolitanism in Naipaul’s The Mimic Men. The immigrants are chosen as the focal point to reveal the dissociation between them and the metropolis. Examining Naipaul’s description ... see more
Mohamed Fathi Helaly
Buchi Emecheta is one of the most important female writers to emerge from Nigeria. She is distinguished for her vivid description of female subordination and conflicting cultural values in modern Africa. In Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood Nnu Ego, the p... see more
AbdulRahman Al Asmari,Malik Ajmal Gulzar
The present study attempted to explore the role of authentic materials (henceforth AM) in the interaction of the Saudi EFL university classrooms with an emphasis placed on gender-based analysis of EFL university teachers' classroom practices. Moreover, it... see more
Thamer Amer JubouriAl_Ogaili,Ruzbeh Babaee
This study will examine postcolonial powers of opposition in Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979); through Homi Bhabha’s concept of ambivalence and Edward Said’s self-other relationship. By using these concepts, this research aims to unravel how the colonized ... see more
Yousef A.N. Aldalabeeh
Tennessee Williams is regarded as one of the most famous and important American playwrights in the twentieth century. His writing career spanned more than forty-five years, and his achievements have been recognized and appreciated by many critics and read... see more
Abbas Ali Zarei,Maryam Mousavi
This study investigated the effects of three types of feedback on Iranian EFL learners’ recognition of lexical collocations. 78 pre-intermediate students from among 90 were selected to participate in this study. A KET (Key English Test) was used in order ... see more
Mohammad Amin Mozaheb,Mostafa Shahiditabar,Abbas Monfared,Fatemeh Mirzapour
The present study aims to analyze Shahriar's Getm? T?rsa Balasi (do not leave me the Christian Child) poem in terms of religious images using content-based analysis. Initially, the poem published in Azerbaijani Turkish has been analyzed by the researchers... see more
Pegah Sheibeh,Reza Deedari
The present study is an attempt to use “textually oriented discourse analysis” of Norman Fairclough, (1941), to offer a new reading of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955). The researcher found it quite appropriate to read the chosen work through Fairclough’s... see more
Malinee Phaiboonnugulkij
The objectives of this paper were to compare total and individual metacognitive strategies by four groups of university students from different majors in five different tourism situational lessons. The total of 34 students participated in this study, and ... see more
Ankhbayar Batsuuri,Nansalmaa Nyamjav
This article is devoted to a very up-to-date area of linguistic research–linguistic gender. More specifically, it pays special attention to how gender linked language effects are revealed in the names of toys in the overall production of Mongolian child l... see more
Shameem Ahmed
Effective reading is essential for success in acquiring a foreign language (Mikulecky 2008). Students have to read a wide range of textbooks and related materials at the tertiary level. Lack of adequate reading habit is, therefore, bound to impede student... see more
Naiyer Azam Hashmi
It is very interesting to see how Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has attracted many Arab students in learning English as a foreign language in the institutions of higher learning. It has great impact on their academic lives especially on teach... see more
Toktam Abtahi,Khalil Motallebzadeh
This study examines Iranian EFL teachers’ sense of professional identity and their computer literacy. To these end, 718 EFL teachers from different cities in Iran filled out job satisfaction, occupational commitment, and computer literacy questionnaires. ... see more
Paikar Fatima Mazhar Hameed
This study aims to promote the use of films in learning English language in Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. It also tends to explore whether or not the inappropriate use of media like computers and mobiles is the cause behind the learners' low leve... see more
Mohammed Marajan Awad Adam
English is taught as a foreign language in the Arab world even though practical concerns call for greater emphasis on the language. In all personal interactions too Arabic is the preferred language. Thus the environment for English is really very limited ... see more
Jamila AbdulAzeez Buba,Yasir Bdaiwi Jasim Al-Shujairi,Mohammed Sani Ya’u
It is quite interesting to note that Pidgin which essentially began as a demanded language between the white importers, who later turned colonial masters, and their black traders has now become a campus language-spoken of the majority of the population am... see more
Behnaz Gholinezhad Khameneh,Natasha Pourdana
This research aimed at comparing the effectiveness of Output-oriented and Input-oriented tasks on improving EFL learners’ vocabulary achievement. To reach their objective, the researchers ran a quasi-experimental pre-test posttest design with 64 Iranian E... see more