30 articles in this issue
Manizheh Abdollahi,Sammad Sajjadi,Ehya Amalsaleh
This study investigates linguistic expressions featuring the patient in a medical textbook written in the 12th century in Persian. At this time, medical practice is noticed to be more scientific than those written years before or even many centuries after... see more
Parastoo Asgharpur
Lack of religious sense in twentieth century made so many writers to object to the situation. One of these writers who had devoted a very challenging criticism to himself is Graham Greene. In criticizing Greene’s novels there has always been an argument t... see more
Ali Eliasi,Hamide Vahidi Borji
Tackling learners’ erroneous oral output has always been a substantial issue for both language teachers and researchers. Taking Swain’s output hypothesis and Schmidt’s noticing hypothesis into account, this study aims at investigating the effect of task- ... see more
Anthony Ayodele Olaoye
Indigenous languages are indispensable cultural legacies without which all forms of human interactions can be carried out. National development is the development of individuals in a nation. Individuals can develop educationally, socially, politically, ec... see more
Steve Bode Ekundayo,Patrick Balogun
Educated Nigerians express and store socio-cultural concepts and experiences in various linguistic ways, three of which are examined in this paper: lexicalization, compounding and reduplication. They are conceptualized as intraference in the main because ... see more
Saedeh Ahangari,Behzad Rassekh-Alqol,Leila Ali Akbari Hamed
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of peer assessment on oral presentation of Iranian English non-major students. To this end, 52 students of Azad and State universities of Tabriz were selected as participants. Their ages ranged from 25 t... see more
Marjan Vosoughi,Ebrahim Davoudi Sharifabad,Shohreh Raftari
The EAP textbooks which are currently taught in Iranian universities don't seem to satisfy the necessary requirements current in new enquires of EAP research. An EAP book sample from SAMT 1 publications for the students of medicine was chosen for a ... see more
El-Sadig Yahya Ezza
The College of Education at Majma'ah University shifted from King Saud University EFL syllabus to Gassim University EFL syllabus at the second term of the academic year 1432/1433. The new syllabus introduces the students to the English pronunciation befor... see more
Mahnaz Saeidi,Fatemeh Mirzapour
This study examines the relationship between morphological awareness and listening comprehension ability in Iranian EFL learners. Morphological awareness refers to the learners’ knowledge of morphemes and morphemic structure, allowing them to reflect and ... see more
Seyed Javad Es-hagi Sardroud
Considering the overall tendency of foreign language learners to use mechanical strategies of rote rehearsal in vocabulary learning and their resistance towards use of 'deep' vocabulary learning strategies, namely contextual guessing, Keyword Method, meta... see more
Adesina B. Sunday
This paper examined the segmental phonology of 25 purposively sampled bilingual Nigerian adult Broca’s aphasics from a Nigerian teaching hospital. Data were collected by tape-recording the speech of each of the aphasic. The data were analysed perceptually... see more
Muhammad Saboor Hussain,Aisha Farid
The young learners have an inbuilt and inborn capacity of absorbing the language inputs. With the growing age, their absorbing capacity reduces though it gets compensated by experience. The adult age can bring wisdom and knowledge but for acquisition... see more
Fatemeh Kabi Rahnama,Amir Mahdavi Zafarghandi,Jaleh hassaskhah
Within SDT framework, many investigations have been done in the field of language learning showing teachers’ instructional behaviors can affect students’ perceived self-determination and learning outcomes (Noels, Clément, & Pelletier, 1999). In this paper... see more
Md. Ziaul Haque,Fahmida Kabir Chowdhury
In King Oedipus (429 B.C.E) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman (1949 A.D) by Arthur Miller, the central characters Oedipus and Willy Loman take extreme pride in their professions; their pride blinds them from seeing the reality of their circumstances, a... see more
Nora Hadi Q. Alseed
More than any other of Burroughs’ many creations, Tarzan has become a staple of popular culture. The character functions as a cultural prism, in which the concerns, anxieties, desires, and tastes of particular times and places are encapsulated in such a w... see more
Muhammad Aslam Sipra
The article explores the use of technology in EFL classes to promote communicative competence. It elucidates communicative competence and explicates obstructions in communicative tasks. Moreover, it interprets the use of technology in fostering and suppor... see more
Angelina Subrayan Michael,Chittra Muthusamy,Puspalata C Suppiah,Caroline Joseph,Sulia Masturina binti Che Razali
Cohesion is deemed to be outside of the structure of text because structure in text is provided by grammar. The design of cohesion in text is connected to semantic ties or “relations of meanings that exist within the text, and that define it as a text” (H... see more
Lilly Fernandes
Analysis of literature indicates that varying viewpoints about different elements which define contemporary African American Literature has been identified. Majority of the scholarly works on African American writing are built on foundation of culture, po... see more
Mohsen Shahrokhi,Farinaz Shirani Bidabadi,Hamidah Yamat
This study discusses the findings of a qualitative study on the strategies used by Iranian female freshmen in narrow listening. The data collected through semi-structured interview with 12 female freshmen (four learners as advanced, four as intermed... see more
Bakhtiar Naghdipour
Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller were two memory playwrights who searched the memory or the collective unconscious of their generation for the lost dreams of an unspoiled myth as well as the genuine ideals of love, humanity and dignity. These authors ... see more
Moussa Ahmadian,Ashkan Pashangzadeh
The importance of narratives as a significant type of literary texts and their presence in all aspects of society and social experiences of ours by and large is not hidden to anyone; the ever-presence of narratives in every age, every place and in every l... see more
Vasemaca T. Ledua Alifereti
This study, identifies, discusses and recommends specific linguistic features that can be explored by Non-Native English (NNE) students studying at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji to improve their academic writing texts. Firstly, the sta... see more
Ebrahim Azimi Mohammad Abadi,Abdollah Baradaran
Vocabulary learning is incredibly noteworthy to English language acquisition. It is unfeasible for a learner to communicate without the required vocabulary. In high education levels, learners are habitually forced to become autonomous and make conscious e... see more
Nawal F. Abbas
The strategies of politeness are not arbitrarily chosen by speakers in interaction. Instead, the choice of a strategy is constrained by a number of contextual features (socio-cultural variables), such as the relative power of the speakers, the social dist... see more
Akram Pouralifard
This paper examines James Justinian Morier’s The Adventures of Haji Baba of Ispahan in order to reveal various horizons of meaning as a result of four different readings of the novel. The entertaining effect is surveyed through the first reading. Th... see more
Seyit Ahmet Çapan
Anxiety is an affective factor commonly associated with one’s overall performance in a foreign language. As a component of foreign language anxiety, communication apprehension specifically correlates with successful oral production. A plethora of research... see more
Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed,Sultana Jahan
Rabindranath Tagore, the first Nobel- Laureate in the Indian sub-continent journeyed all spheres of the domain of Bangla Literature in 19th century. His works are viewed in the West as spiritual and mercurial. On the other hand, Born in Victorian England ... see more
Mónica Chávez Muñoz
Academic writing has been recently defined as a social activity in disciplinary communities and cultures. As a result, there has been an increasing interest in the study of self as author, focusing on the way writers represent themselves in texts and how ... see more
Nisreen Naji Al-Khawaldeh,Vladimir Žegarac
This paper presents the findings of an empirical study which compares Jordanian and English native speakers’ perceptions about the speech act of thanking. The forty interviews conducted revealed some similarities but also of remarkable cross-cultural diff... see more
Marzieh Gordan,Areej Saad Almutairi
This article looks at female level of resistance though the viewpoint of post-colonialism and feminism based on Khaled Hosseini’s novel, Thousand Splendid Suns. The article concentrates on levels of resistance as a part of Afghan female's lifestyle agains... see more