22 articles in this issue
Clarence Green
The following study presents research into English clause combination that describes how the types of clauses in English are distributed along a hierarchy of grammatical integration, in a much more complex fashion than the traditional coordination/subordi... see more
Ahmed Gumaa Siddiek
There is too much literature about the untranslatability of the Quran from its Arabic text into another language. Most Muslims: Arab and Non-Arab, and almost everyone with Arabic language background, will not find any difficulty to prove the untranslatabi... see more
Massoud Yaghoubi-Notash
A considerable body of research in EFL assessment seems to be motivated by the notion of self-assessment (see Sung et al., 2010, for example). In this research, essay writings of sixty-four major English learners were subjected to self- and teacher-assess... see more
Abbas Eslami-Rasekh,Omid Rezaei,Sajad Davoudi
The purpose of the study is to determine the relationships between locus of control (LOC) orientation and high school students’ language achievement. The popular categorization of internals and externals was taken into account. The participants of this st... see more
Hassan Soleimani,Maryam Saeedi,Reza Mohajernia
This study intended to investigate the comparative effectiveness of keyword and context method on immediate and delayed vocabulary retention of EFL learners. It also compared the rate of forgetting in the keyword and context groups. With a quasi experimen... see more
Biook Behnam,Behzad Aliakbari Rassekh-Alqol
This study tries to investigate the correlation between sociolinguistic parameters such as sex, age, and social class and the use of metathesis in Azeri. There have been few studies from a sociolinguistic perspective on the use of metathesis. Through stud... see more
Nemah Abdullah Ayash Ezzi
University students have to communicate using FL in the classrooms. This demand makes students anxious and leads to FL anxiety. This study aims to measure the levels of FL anxiety perceived by the Yemeni students of the English Department in the Faculty o... see more
Nadia Ghazanfari Moghaddam,Azadeh Sharifi Moghaddam
The translation of cultural concepts is a fundamental problematic area in translation study and practice. Many suggestions have been offered to overcome these difficulties and prevent cultural misconceptions. The present study analyzed the translation of ... see more
Khamsa Qasim
Identity politics is a dominant theme in Black feminist fiction. Black Woman’s quest for cultivating a positive identity is often being complicated by the intersecting oppression of race, class and gender. Morrison’s novels describe the secret stories of ... see more
F. Filiz Yalçin Tilfarlioglu,Yunus Bozgeyik
The current study was carried out to examine L2 learners’ VLS use habits and the relationship of VLS with their vocabulary proficiency levels. In addition, language learners’ beliefs about VLS in terms of usefulness were also studied to understand L2 lear... see more
Debajit Deb
Case is a grammatical category determined by the syntactic or semantic function of a noun or pronoun. Trask (1997) said that “Any one of the forms which a noun or noun phrase may assume in order to represent its grammatical and semantic relation to the re... see more
Hassan Soleimani,Maryam Molla Esmaeili
The effect of explicit instruction of clustering new thematic vocabulary items into two different categories through hyperlinks of PowerPoint was examined on vocabulary learning of 75 Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The sample was randomly assigned to ... see more
Idowu Odebode
This study attempts an onomastic analysis of Wole Soyinka’s The Strong Breed from a socio-pragmatic perspective. Six names of the major characters in the text are selected for the study. They are given an in-depth analysis based on Halliday’s (1978) socio... see more
Natasha Pourdana,Fatemeh Bornaki,Zahra Moayedi Fard,Sayyed Yahya Sarkhosh
This study attempted to explore the possible relationship between test-taking strategies and (a) successful performance on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading comprehension, (b) EFL learners’ level of language proficiency. To accomplish the purpos... see more
Ali Asghar Yousefi Azarfam,Roselan Baki
This paper attempts to explore the language anxiety in speaking skill of Iranian EFL language learners from two different perspectives of language teachers and language learners. In doing so, it follows a qualitative method in the form of case study throu... see more
Nurhanis Sahiddan
This paper examines the approaches to travel writing in Isabella L. Bird’s The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither. There are various approaches adapted by travel writers, such as nature, ideas on home, notions of space, ethnography and others. This pap... see more
Inayatullah Kakepoto,Hadina Habil,Noor Abidah Mohd Omar,Yusuf Boon,Majid Hamdani
The purpose of this study was to determine impact of industrial internship training on oral communication skills of engineering students during this program. Fifty engineers from two engineering organizations participated in this study. Participants of th... see more
A.Majid Hayati,Mohammad Hayati
The focus of the present study was on paralogical potential of the lyrics. For this reason, four tracks from The Wall, which focuses on the alienation and self-captivation of its main character, Pink, because of his nervous breakdown caused by family, sch... see more
Ida Reihani,Abbas Eslami Rasekh
Consumerism and the inevitable tracking of one's desired product among the endless rows and shelves of colorful products, highlights the importance of winning advertising strategies which have the power to persuade their audience to prefer one product ove... see more
Maryam Sherkatolabbasi,Amir Mahdavi-Zafarghandi
In countries where English is mainly used for academic purposes, such as Iran, ESP plays a highly important role. In Iran, there are three major different contexts of ESP in which content teachers, language teachers, and professional ESP teachers at Langu... see more
Ismail Zeki DIKICI
This paper examines pre-service English teachers’ beliefs towards grammar studying at two Turkish Universities. A total of 90 pre-service English teachers, 57 of whom were studying at Mugla University and 33 of whom were studying at Onsekiz Mart Universit... see more
Ulkar Kazimova
The book is nominally, an anatomy, an overview, a dissection, an analysis of melancholy. But melancholy is a broad term, a common affliction with many causes, symptoms and, possibly, cures. Because of that, Burton is determined to consider each and every ... see more