30 articles in this issue
WEI Li
An EFL Learning Community has been set up online via a free messaging tool QQ International to consolidate and apply the knowledge learnt in class. One sub-community aims at developing multicultural awareness while the other focuses on expertise training ... see more
Mais Qutami,Suha Qutami
The current study examines the attitudes of Jordanian female college students whose major is English language and literature towards the United States of America and the United Kingdom. It also looks into the reasons for their held beliefs about the West,... see more
Danmin Ye,Dongzhu Wang
In this study, we identify the systematic language varieties and discourse characteristics that are indicative of the academic writings of Chinese and American scientists. We conduct a Contrastive Corpus Analysis using the computational tool, the Gramulat... see more
Morteza Bagheri,Atefeh Hamrang
Over the years, researchers have been trying to help learners to approach a task in an effective way to promote their second language (L2) production and development. Researchers have found that giving planning time to learners can improve their L2 develo... see more
Holi Ibrahim Holi Ali
This is an attempt to investigate and evaluate students’ and faculty’s experiences and understanding to the strengths and limitations of anti-plagiarism software, specifically, Turnitin and how it could be used to promote academic integrity among engineer... see more
Azim Javadi-Safa,Fereidoon Vahdany,Masoud Khalili Sabet
This research aims at investigating the relationship between writing skill and sub-skills of first language (Persian) and foreign language (English). Therefore, 50 upper-intermediate EFL learners in Iran who were majoring in the English language were aske... see more
Hui chuan Wang
For the past decade, translation learning has become one of the main foci for university language students in Taiwan. However, many studies have shown that translation teachers tend to adopt traditional teaching methods without considering class dynamics ... see more
Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia,Yasaman Kocheili
The present paper examines Eugene O’Neill’s three selected plays, Anna Christie, The Iceman Cometh and The Hairy Ape, in the light of cultural studies by focusing on finding the notion of the "other", here women, blacks and the working class. The chosen g... see more
Sima Farshid,Bita Darabi Darabi
This paper presents a Lacanian reading of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night (1941) by drawing on the psychic orders the well-known French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has propounded. He holds that human psyche is formed of three orders (the Im... see more
Parviz Maftoon,Nima Shakouri,Ogholgol Nazari
The study of skill acquisition, as DeKeyser (1997) declares, is an important area within cognitive psychology. What is undeniable in skill acquisition is the fact that through extensive practice, the degree of attention on a task decreases and the task is... see more
Mahin Yavari,Alireza Fard Kashani
This study investigated whether or not male and female writers of academic research articles were different in the use of interpersonal resources in English. In order to carry out the study, 32 applied linguistics research articles with the standard macro... see more
George EWANE NGIDE
This article studies the primal role of female characters in the works of two dramatists separated by time and space and yet convergent in their philosophical portrayal of the woman as an agent of socio-political mutations. It posits that although Bole Bu... see more
Ahmad Al-Hassan
Recognizing the importance of culture in translation, this article presents a descriptive study of translation of literary texts from English into Arabic. Using the data taken from works of Shakespeare and others which were translated by eminent translato... see more
Susan Taha Alkarawi,Ida Baizura Bahar
This paper challenges the thought that the term ‘Muslim woman’ connotes submissive or backward and is in need of rescue by the West through a literary analysis of the work by Mohja Kahf (b.1967), a leading contemporary Arab-American Muslim woman writer. I... see more
Naemeh Nahavandi,Jayakaran Mukundan
This study has investigated the effect of task-based cycle on Iranian Elementary EFL learners' reading comprehension. In order to accomplish the research, two intact classes, including 84 engineering EFL learners (studying pre-university course) were chos... see more
Masoumeh Parsa,Shahrokh Jahandar,Morteza Khodabandehlou
The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of verbal intelligence on Iranian pre-intermediate students’ knowledge of lexicon. The participants comprised of 30 male and 30 female learners. A vocabulary test was administered to find out stude... see more
Tunde Opeibi,Aina Oluwasola
Since the turn of the new millennium, the new media has continued to alter the communication configuration in modern societies. The social media tools have been influencing the way we interact and communicate. These wireless networks have confirmed that o... see more
Atefeh Mobasher,Afida Mohamad Ali,Faiz Sathi Abdullah,Chan Mei Yuit
Corporate Annual Reports (CARs) are corporate communication tools which have been around for 75 years. They report company’s progress, profits and losses. At first, reports were provided in English, because they were published in an English speaking conte... see more
Seyed Mostafa Hashemi,Masoud Khalili Sabet
This paper examined the perception of Iranian EFL learners and teachers towards employing Persian in EFL classes. The present study was a case study which investigated teachers’ and students’ perception toward effective use of L1 and L2 in General English... see more
Mohammad Jafar Jabbari
The linguistic term "inchoative" is far from clear. Some scholars use the term synonymously with "inceptive" and "ingressive" referring to an aspectual form which expresses the commence of a state or activity. However, inchoative has also been used in ano... see more
Omid Ghahreman,Farideh Pourgiv
Ambiguity is an indispensable part of modern fiction that has always implied what is always merited as the ‘literariness’ and ‘sophistication’ of that fiction. In modern fiction, particularly in James Joyce’s Dubliners, ambiguity and indeterminacy transce... see more
Zahra Esmaeili,Shima Ebrahimi
Defamiliarization is a literary device which has been coined by Shkolvsky and its aim is to move readers to see familiar things in an unfamiliar way. Shkolvsky argues that defamiliarization creates a ‘vision’ of the object instead of serving as a means fo... see more
Shadi Neimneh
This paper looks at the problematic of the body in Coetzee’s novel Disgrace. It argues that the novel’s protagonist is initially driven by eros, impulsive sexual desires beyond his control. However, Lurie’s conception of the body changes in the ... see more
Shima Kameli,Ghazali Mustapha,Salah Alyami
The present study explored the association among vocabulary breadth/size, depth/quality of vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension in English as a foreign language. The main intention of this research was to explore the association of vocabu... see more
Masoud Raee Sharif,Maryam Ebrahimian
This study set out to compare the effect of modality of presentation (subtitled vs. auditory) on the retention of verbal content of documentary films among Iranian EFL students. To this end, 60 participants (30 male and 30 female students) of homogeneous ... see more
Massoud Rahimpour,Parviz Ajideh,Davoud Amini,Farahman Farrokhi
Both cognition and affect have been proven to have a significant role in instructed second language acquisition. Unlike cognitive processes, the affective processes in language learning have not received due attention in the research on task-based languag... see more
Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi,Niyi Akingbe,Adebola Abosede Otemuyiwa
Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is tr... see more
Nafise Shajani
The present article is an attempt to investigate Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy in the light of Žižek’s Hegel-inspired theorization about subjectivity. It studies Hegelian themes of “absolute negativity” and the “night of the world” that figure promin... see more
Esmaeil Zeiny Jelodar,Noraini Md Yusof,Ruzy Suliza Hashim,Raihanah M.M
Traditional education of literature would do injustice to both students and the discipline in this age of globalization. This is the era when teachers should use critical pedagogy to teach any genre of literature. Nowadays, a great number of memoirs form ... see more
Mercy Ugot,Offiong Ani Offiong,Oyo Ekpo Oyo
This Paper focuses on lexical items in the Ikom Ogoja variety of Nigerian Pidgin (NP). This however does not mean that the regularized Nigerian Pidgin (NP) is not being used in the area. However, factors such as contact with the substrate languages in the... see more