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Volume 2 Number 4 Year 2013

30 articles in this issue 

Mohammad Javad Mohammadi,Bamshad Hekmatshoar Tabari,Bizhan Hekmatshoar Tabari

This paper, at the first stage, presents a genre analysis of 50 calls for papers of conferences held in Iran at both national and international levels from 2000 to 2012 (Swales, 1990). The study also targets the politeness strategies employed in such text... see more

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Mahsa Ariafar,Hamid Reza Fatemipour

Self-assessment is one of the attractive new alternative assessment forms which raises learners’ awareness of their individual progress, and encourages learners to become autonomous learners (Harris, 1997). The present study aimed to investigate the effec... see more

Pags. 7 - 13  

Reza Rezvani,Tayebe Amiri

Despite the vast studies on the measurement of teachers’ sense of efficacy, little has been done in the domain of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Hence, this study was motivated by a practical need to develop and validate a teacher efficacy... see more

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Angela Brown

The migration of blacks in North America through slavery became united.  The population of blacks past downs a tradition of artist through art to native born citizens. The art tradition involved telling stories to each generation in black families. T... see more

Pags. 27 - 30  

Hassan Soleimani,Amin Khanjani

In recent years, the field of foreign language teaching and learning has witnessed increasing interest in the use of computer in education. Among various factors affecting the successful implementation of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in the ... see more

Pags. 31 - 38  

Touran Ahour,Mahnaz Rasoulizadeh,Biook Behnam

The simplification of written texts is one way for second language learners to access the general message of authentic texts. This linguistic simplification may facilitate the process of learning for non-native speakers but, at the same time, it may peril... see more

Pags. 39 - 49  

Hassan Dousti,Hossein Abolfathiasl

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of metacognitive listening strategy instruction on the listening sub-skills performance of the Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners at the Foreign Language Center, Imam Ali University. The current study has ... see more

Pags. 50 - 55  

Marziyeh Nekoueizadeh,Abbas Motamedi

Academicians are identified with their papers and expertise in writing scholarly articles, either for promotion or for satisfying their prestige. Iranian academic members are expected to win a justifiable stance by the quality and quantity of their public... see more

Pags. 56 - 64  

Ashraf Atta M. S. Salem

This paper sheds light on the impact of the widespread of improvements happened in the fields of communication technology on English language use. This impact is described on the basis of interviews conducted with participants. The sample of the study con... see more

Pags. 65 - 69  

Abdol Hossein Joodaki,Hamideh Mahdiany

This article is devoted to the analysis of one of Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian short stories, Harrison Bergeron, through the setting analysis  focusing mainly on the use of media as a means of creating mono logical setting and discussing the dance scene... see more

Pags. 70 - 73  

Majid Ghyasi,Morteza Yazdani,Mohammad Amini Farsani

This study investigates the relationship between personality traits, as measured by the NEO Five Factor Inventory, and different learning strategies, measured by the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), that foreign language student may... see more

Pags. 74 - 82  

Reza Vaseghi,Hamed Barjesteh,Sedigheh Shakib

The current study examined the learning style preferences of 75 Iranian students at Marefat high school in Kuala Lumpur of which, 41 are females and 34 are males. As there are very few researches in which the learning style preferences of Iranian high sch... see more

Pags. 83 - 89  

Roya Ghaffarpour

The present paper has tried to apply Bhabha's significant notions such as mimicry, ambivalence and stereotype to Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. Bhabha believes that in the interaction of the colonizer and the colonized both cultures are affected and n... see more

Pags. 90 - 97  

Tien DANG

This study investigates the impact of L1 (Vietnamese) on L2 (English) with a specific reference to rhythm. The transfer of L1 rhythm to the L2 rhythm is considered as a potential factor in reducing EFL learner’s intelligibility.  The findings of this... see more

Pags. 98 - 109  

Shohreh Shahpouri Arani,Narges Soltani Tehrani

One major problem for non-native speakers is using refusals and because of this, second language teachers and others who communicate in that language should have the cultural differences in mind. When the interlocutors say “no” to a request or invitation,... see more

Pags. 110 - 117  

Nozar Niazi

This paper aims at analyzing D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Sons and Lovers’ using a stylistic approach. Stylistics is a study of the amalgamation of form with content. The stylistic analysis of a novel goes beyond the traditional, intuitive interpretation, because it ... see more

Pags. 118 - 126  

Ali Kazemi,Iman Izadi

It has long been known that teaching and learning a language in an ESL context is by far easier than teaching and learning it in an EFL context and that learning a language must take place in a social context. Foreign language contexts are those in which ... see more

Pags. 127 - 134  

Jin Qiu

The present paper is intended to provide a unified account for the interpretation of puns from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective. In recent years a few scholars have delved into the processing mechanism of puns, but none of them has demonstrably elucidate... see more

Pags. 135 - 141  

Ali Akbar Ansarin,Zohre Mohamadi

While task-based instruction is considered as the one of the most effective way to learn a language, it is oversimplified on various grounds especially in teachers’ implementation of the approach in practical terms. Different variables may affect how stud... see more

Pags. 142 - 154  

Jingwei TANG

Fuzziness is one of the objective characteristics of human language, which makes language flexible and reliable. It’s helpful to keep communication more euphemistic and convincing. Hedges are core of fuzzy language and the study on hedges contributes to t... see more

Pags. 155 - 160  

Hassan Soleimani,Maryam Dadmohammadi

Negotiation is believed to play a key role in language learning in general and vocabulary learning in particular. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of types of instructions (negotiation, non-negotiation, or in isolation) on learning and ... see more

Pags. 161 - 173  

Hossein Saadabadi M.

In order to have an effective second language education, students, and teachers should share beliefs and assumptions about language and learning as well as educational goals.  Achieving such efficiency requires deep understanding of students’ and tea... see more

Pags. 174 - 181  

Meihua Liu,Ying Xu

This paper reports on a study of syntactic errors in English essays composed by Chinese university students. Thirty undergraduate non-English majors across disciplines produced 90 essays on three tasks during eight weeks, and answered a self-developed que... see more

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Chuluundorj Begz

Cognitive linguistics, neuro-cognitive and psychological analysis of human verbal cognition present important area of multidisciplinary research. Mathematical methods and models have been introduced in number of publications with increasing attention to t... see more

Pags. 192 - 199  

Farid Mohammadi

The presence of the Catholic framework in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium has long been the subject of debate. Various Tolkien scholars and literary critics have already written different critical interpretations to consider whether to assign The Lord of the... see more

Pags. 200 - 211  

Abdolvahed Zarifi,Jayakaran Mukundan

This study presents a critique of some of the corpus-based studies on phrasal verbs carried out in different types of corpora. Not only is it an attempt to provide the reader with some of the revealing findings these works have to offer but it also tends ... see more

Pags. 212 - 217  

Nauman Al Amin Ali El Sayed,Ahmed Gumaa Siddiek

A dictionary is (a) learning tool that can help the language learner in acquiring great knowledge of and about a foreign language. Almost all language learners buy or at least possess, at one time, a monolingual or bilingual dictionary, to which the learn... see more

Pags. 218 - 227  

Amir Nikmehr,Farahman Farrokhi

This paper examines the substance of a term, often heard but rarely explained, in the discussion of language teaching, namely gambits. More specially, the focus of this paper is to explore the inadequacies in the literature regarding gambits, in order to ... see more

Pags. 228 - 239  

Iran Zamani

The purpose of the current paper is studying Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece in the light of the post-structuralist feminist theories of the French philosopher, writer and critic Hélène Cixous. The article aims at scrutinizing the concept of body which i... see more

Pags. 240 - 244  

Hamed Morovatdar

The perception of body has shifted significance from a commonsensical and everyday fact to a historicized concept within the past century. However, the extremes of the biological or social theorizations concerning body have been mutually dismissive of the... see more

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