30 articles in this issue
Omar Ibrahim Salameh Alomoush,Ghazi Khaleel Al-Na’imat
This article examines the linguistic landscape (LL henceforth) of a southern Jordanian town, Petra. It also attempts to display how English is used by both commercial shops and companies in the local tourist industry to construct and shape touristic visua... see more
Hamideh Abbasi,Mania Nosratinia
The present study aspired to systematically investigate the relationship among EFL learners’ Self-Regulation (SR), Self-Efficacy (SE), and their Use of Oral Communication Strategies (UOCS). To this end, 367 male and female undergraduate students, within t... see more
Faustina Amponsah Partey,Rosemary Gifty Addo-Danquah,Lucy Korkoi Bonku,Kwasi Sarfo-Adu
Abbreviations are intended to facilitate expeditious writing and make use of reduced space either on paper, the computer or the phone. Abbreviations have been used for quite a prolonged period and are putative wherever their use is effected. Nevertheless,... see more
Parisa Hamidizadeh,Yazdan Mahmoudi,Amir Hamidizadeh
John Milton can be considered one of the key figures who was not satisfied with the dominant religion and struggled to intensify the essence of Protestantism in form of Puritanism. Through a minute analysis of John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the religious... see more
Narges Masjedi,Shamala Paramasivam
Complaint is a face threatening act and it happens when a speaker reacts with anger to things which go wrong or to a speech or an action which affected him/her unfavorably. Therefore, complaints can engender social relationship breakdown. However, a compl... see more
Yousef Bakhshizadeh Gashti
This paper has attempted to investigate the absurdist voices in Harold Pinter’s selected poems written from 1951to1953. These poems belonging to his early phase of writing as the poet deals with the major obsessions of post-Modern man depicting his anxiet... see more
Albert Agbesi Wornyo,Ernest Kwesi Klu,Hlaviso Motlhaka
Several studies have shown that authentic learning facilitates learners’ acquisition of knowledge, understanding of concepts and application of skills to solve real life problems. This study explores how authentic learning can be used to help English as a... see more
Sri Endah Kusmartini
Writing skill is one of the language skills that should be mastered by the students of English department. It is believed that Project-based learning in writing class encourages the students to work autonomously and responsibly in producing the manuscript... see more
Lana Kreishan
This study investigated the refusal and complaint speech act strategies employed by Jordanian undergraduate EFL learners. Refusal and complaint data were collected using a discourse completion test and role-plays. The findings revealed that, as non-native... see more
Parviz Ajideh,Mohammad Zohrabi,Kazem Pouralvar
This study investigated the effect of explicit instruction of metacognitive reading strategies on ESP reading comprehension among university students in Iran. Strategy instruction has recently been integrated into language teaching methodologies, stressin... see more
David Ako Odoi,Ernest Kwesi Klu
Africa as a continent has many ethnic groups. For most non-Africans, Africa is a homogenous society and therefore all African societies and cultures are lumped together. There may be many similarities between cultures. However, the subtleties in culture f... see more
Afsaneh Ghanizadeh,Azam Razavi,Akram Hosseini
Recent expansions in technological tools are shifting the direction of foreign-language education. A plethora of EFL research studies suggested that the benefits of TELL (technology-enhanced language learning) embrace a wide array of cognitive, motivation... see more
Edi Trisno,- Emzir,Ilza Mayuni
The present paper explores students’ needs analysis on genre-based multimedia listening material for the development of students’ listening skills for English department students at university level. This research was a part of research and development co... see more
Shima Peimanfard,Fazel Asadi Amjad
This study examines the intersections of Post colonialism and Psychoanalysis in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. It also aims to challenge Bhabha’s notions of mimicry and ambivalence as he deems them to be great forms of resistance against White supremacy.... see more
Ahmed Masrai
Considerable research has investigated the effect of preschool education on subsequent school success and proposed a positive link between the two. Less research, however, has directly investigated the influence of preschool education on children’s vocabu... see more
Amirudin Amirudin,Sulis Triyono
Instagram as one of the famous social network sites in this century is as one way to share various kinds of general information and to present our activities, events, achievements, vacations, and so forth. The present study explored expositive acts presen... see more
Chigbu Andrew Chigbu,Gideon Uzoma Umezurike,Chibuzo Onunkwo
Despite the century and three-decade gap between them, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s Houseand Zainabu Jallo’s Onions Make Us Cry have often been studied for their indebtedness to two movements that have shaped human history and conditioned contemporary thoughts... see more
Rehan Almegren
This research will find out the nonverbal communication tools used by the students with Arabic background which they use while talking in English to their counter parts. The research will use the techniques designed by Cohen, Olshtain & Rosenstein (1986) ... see more
Abdul Salam Mohamad Alnamer,Sulafah Abdul Salam Alnamer
This study aims at identifying the loanwords commonly used in Emirati Arabic (EA), determining their origins and identifying the reasons behind using them. It also investigates the impact of gender, education, and age of speakers of EA on the use of loanw... see more
Bahagia Tarigan,Rudy Sofyan
A language and its environment are so dependent one another that maintaining a language also means maintaining its environment. One of the purposes of studying a language and its environment is to maintain the lexicon associated with the ecological enviro... see more
Hayat Eid Alroudhan
NLP is an interpersonal communications model based on the belief that language is strongly inter-connected with neurological processes and behavioral patterns adopted through experience and the power of this connection can be harnessed to acquire the skil... see more
Watjana Suriyatham,Watcharee Paisart
This mixed-method case study was conducted to probe how a set of pictures had an influence on a group of EFL university students’ retention of English words. Seven Thai university participants, enrolling in the course of English for Service Industry, were... see more
Norah K. M. Alsharidi
Twitter is a popular microblogging site amongst the Saudi population, which means that Saudi EFL learners are now increasingly connected with millions of native English speakers and other EFL/ESL students. This paper shed light on the use of Twitter by fe... see more
Abdulrahman Abdulwaheed Idris,Rosli Talif,Arbaayah Ali Termizi,Hardev Kaur Jujar
This paper focuses on the presentation of women oppression and emancipation in Nawal El Saadawi’s novel, Woman at Point Zero. The novel is specifically a call and an appeal to the women in her Egyptian society and the world at large on the need to revisit... see more
Yi-chin Shih
Winning several important drama awards, such as the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, Wendy Wasserstein (1950~2006) is one of the significant playwrights in the history of American theatre. Especially, Wasserstein stimulates the public’s attention to women’s... see more
Amir Marzban,Mojgan Firoozjahantigh
This study aimed at probing the effect of using mnemonic keyword techniques, a number of less used procedures, in teaching vocabulary in an EFL context in Iran on the vocabulary achievement level and vocabulary size of language learners. to this end, 70 E... see more
Wahaj Unnisa Warda
Arthur Miller’s play “The Death of A Salesman” and David Mamet’s play “Glengarry Glen Ross” are both set decades apart and the American political and historical situation is very different in both the plays yet they share the same underlying factor -an in... see more
Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
Tragedy has its roots in man’s life. Tragedies appeared all around the world in the stories of all nations. In western drama, it is written that tragedy first appeared in the literature of ancient Greek drama and later in Roman drama. This literary genre ... see more
Afnan Almegren
In order to create and adopt better educational and pedagogic policies, it is important to understand students’ attitude towards the varieties of English. This study aims to investigate young Saudi EFL learners’ attitude towards the concept of World Engli... see more
Dg Nursazwani binti Daud,Wardatul Akmam Din,Asmaa AlSaqqaf
The lack of writing skills among rural ESL primary school pupils in Malaysia has been identified based on the school level assessments. Based on the teachers as the researchers’ perspectives, the problem of writing among these rural young learners is caus... see more