30 articles in this issue
Taher Badinjki
In his attempt to bring about social reform of the appalling conditions of the working class, Charles Kingsley turned his fictional works into serious instruments of social justice and platforms to spread his views to the public. He envisioned his novels,... see more
Mahmoud El Salman
This is a sociolinguistic study that peers into the strong relation between the social and cultural nature of the Tirawi dialect, and the preserving of their dialect, and the preservation of some names and naming of people and other stuff. The study shows... see more
Léonard A. Koussouhon,Servais D. Y. Dadjo
Drawing on Austin’s (1962) Speech Act Theory, this paper investigates President Goodluck Jonathan’s Concession Speech and General Muhammadu Buhari’s Acceptance Speech for the purpose of examining the impacts of context and evaluating their effects on Nige... see more
Manizheh Alami
Given the fact that English is the language of the latest technological and scientific developments, comprehending English texts has priority for students to gain the knowledge and skills they will need in the future. However, most Omani students are not ... see more
Laleh Khojasteh,Nasrin Shokrpour,Maedeh Afrasiabi
A strong sense of self-confidence in the writing task is referred to as writing self-efficacy. There is a discrepancy between the scholars’ views regarding the relationship between writing self-efficacy and writing performance. Therefore, this study aimed... see more
Longxing Wei
T. S. Eliot's earliest verse is composed of observations, detached, ironic, and alternatively disillusioned and nostalgic in tone. Eliot's mingling of subtle observation with unexpected cliché represents a difficulty that is often magnified because too mu... see more
Yang Yu-Miao
Adopted from the Greenwich bombing which had taken place in 1890, The Secret Agent is a dramatic portrayal of the sociological concept of “anomie” – radical disorder in the social structure and consequent personal dislocation. Despite its ironic scepticis... see more
Shahram R. Sistani
Why do characters are not willing to remember the past? Do their quest for self-definition is prompted by different needs? To what extent the relationship of the individual to their communities matters and has an impact on their process of remembering? Al... see more
Yi-An Jason Chen
The way in which Taiwanese students use English names to construct their identities in a new sociocultural setting has received minimal scholarly attention. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 10 Taiwanese international students, I focused on how t... see more
Neda Khodadadegan,Hardev Kaur,Ruzbeh Babaee
Postmodern Apocalypse is considered as a strategy a writer employs to depict the dreadfulness of nuclear disaster. It is a rich way of transmitting ideas of catastrophe and fear into a more meaningful fiction about a teleological end. This study analyzes ... see more
Radzuwan Ab Rashid,Zanirah Wahab,Kamariah Yunus,Nur Salina Ismail,Normah Yusof,SNM Syed Omar,Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi
This paper explores how teachers discursively construct socially desirable identities to sustain their engagement in the Facebook Timeline community. Data were gathered from the Status updates and Comments on 29 Timelines belonged to Malaysian English lan... see more
Mingming YUAN
As an expanding circle variety, the distinctive features of China English have been identified as: idiom transfers, loan translations of political terms, connotation changes, semantic shifts, and the orientalized style of discourse. While its characterist... see more
Song Chen
The China-UK Joint Declaration on Building a Global Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for the 21st Century is one of the fruits of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent official state visit to the Great Britain. As a typical and important diplomatic lan... see more
Bakr Bagash Mansour Al-Sofi
This study examined the perceptions and views of Saudi undergraduate EFL learners regarding the role of online communication in improving their English, including the basic skills and the other aspects of language learning. It also aimed to identify the i... see more
Mohammed Ali Mohsen
There is a new tendency for institutions to augment their publications in journals indexed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Non-native English researchers may find it hard to get their submissions published in applied linguistics journals that... see more
Anwar A. H. Al-Athwary
The present paper investigates the semantics of English loanwords in Arabic media language (AML). The loanword data are collected from a number of Arab Gulf states newspapers (AGSNs). They are analyzed semantically from the points of view of semanti... see more
Bushra Munawar,Hina Rafique
The aim of this research study is to apply Structuralism (a Linguistic movement related to scientific study of words as signs) as a theoretical framework on the poem “The Stone Chat” by Taufiq Rafat, a prominent Pakistani poet. The study focuses on, prese... see more
Vahid Rafieyan
One of the most problematic perspectives of translation phenomenon is the cultural gap between the source language and the target language (Yang, 2010). This gap can be ideally filled through telecollaboration which provides internationally dispersed lang... see more
Niveen R. M. Elshawa,Chan Swee Heng,Ain Nadzimah Abdullah,Sabariah Md. Rashid
Assessment literacy, as a term, is not well known in the educational field. This is unfortunate because teachers' assessment knowledge and competence can have an important influence on the way they teach and the way their students learn. The relatio... see more
Hanan Al- Radhi,Ambigapathy Pandian,Tengku Sepora Tengku Mehdi
The current study investigates the Arab spring upheaval consequences Egypt witnessed after 2011 popular revolution as reflected by AJE (Al-Jazeera English) in its online news article. The primary concern is to unveil AJE's hidden ideological view towards ... see more
Feng-ming Chi
The aim of this article was to investigate how 10 groups of Taiwanese university students managed conflictual talk via two text discussions, and how they perceived such talk as a social act of reading. Data sources included each group’s text discussions a... see more
Parinaz Kajabadi,Reza HajiMohammadi,Pantea Pahlavani
This study aimed to investigate relationship between resilience as a personality factor defined in positive psychology and autonomous learning as a newly developed subject in learning and teaching (EFL area). This research employed resilience scale by Con... see more
Manimangai Mani
The oldest of Hindu’s philosophical writings, the Rig Veda, which came to being about 4500 BC underlined that, the cause of all misery that befalls mankind is his/her desire; or more promptly said, his/her attachment to the desire. In Hinduism... see more
Rahma Al-Mahrooqi,Christopher James Denman
This paper reports an exploratory investigation into the importance that employed Omani school and college graduates believe English-language communication skills have for their workplaces and the difficulties they face when using these skills in a work e... see more
Zhengwei Pei,Yanhong Xing
With the notion of World Englishes (WE) accepted in the academia, the past decade has witnessed ten studies or so conducted to scrutinize how English learners of China perceptually evaluate English varieties. Those studies, however, seldom explore the jun... see more
Tereza Topolovská
This article elaborates on the thematic connections between E.M. Forster’s 1910 Howards End and Iris Murdoch’s 1978 The Sea, The Sea, namely their poetic conception of dwelling. Besides echoing the major social and cultural concerns of their individual pe... see more
Saheb Mostofee,Nasim Ghanbari,Fateme Nemati
This study aims at comparing five rating behaviors of 8 raters; four novice raters and four experienced raters. The five specific behaviors including number and frequency of referring to the rating scale (Jacobs’ et al. EFL Composition Profile), number of... see more
Mehdi Ghobadi,Mostafa Shahriar,Arash Azizi
The present empirical study was conducted to compare instructed vocabulary teaching and incidental vocabulary acquisition that are two common approaches to teaching second language (L2) vocabulary in the literature. For this purpose, 53 Iran learner... see more
Sawitri Agustrianti,Bambang Yudi Cahyono,Ekaning Dewanti Laksmi
Motivation and gender are claimed to have significant roles to the success of language learning, particularly in literacy skills. This study examined the relationship of students’ motivation in English learning and their literacy skills across gender. It ... see more
Baker M. Bani-Khair
J. O. Bailey in "What Happens in "The Fall of the House of Usher"?" (1964) explains the possibilities of reading The Fall of the House of Usher from different angles and perspectives. It tackles the way the story is presented to the reader and... see more