30 articles in this issue
Islam Ababneh
This paper presents a comparative study of Arabic and English literacy skills and practices for Saudi female university students at their homes and at their school as indicated by the students themselves using literacy questionnaires. The study did not ev... see more
Samaneh Negahdaripour,Ali Amirghassemi
The efficacy of deductive vs. inductive techniques of grammar instruction is still a matter of heated debate, especially in EFL language teaching contexts. This study set out to examine whether or not these two types of teaching would differently affect E... see more
Zahra Al-Qahtani,Abdul Wahed Al Zumor
This study sought to investigate Saudi parents’ attitudes towards using English as a medium of instruction (EMI) in private primary schools.The study also attempted to find the reasons why Saudi parents prefer EMI private schools for their children. Addit... see more
Mehdi Davari Torshizi,Marzieh Davari Torshizi
This study aims at examining the differences between learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in high school (formal context) and private language institute (informal context) from learners’ perspective. To this end, language learners who were simulta... see more
Lavern Byfield,Crystal Shelby-Caffey,Heidi Bacon,Xiang Shen
As technology is increasingly adapted for educational purposes, previous research has confirmed the impact of technology on English learners’ (ELs’) literacy development. Given the increased attention to self-based studies in second language acquisition, ... see more
Jiyar Othman,Rashad Ahmed,Muhammad Alasmari
The current study focuses on how prefixes and suffixes in Arabic and English impact one’s working memory capacity to recall verbs. Further, it deals with whether or not Arabic-English bilingual speakers recall Arabic and English prefixed and suffixe... see more
Amir Mahdavi Zafarghandi,Sepideh Salehi,Masoud Khalil Sabet
The Language teaching is a complex process influenced by many psychological factors such as personality traits (Tonelson, 1981) and socio-communicative styles (Thomas. Et al. 1994). This research sets out to investigate the effect of Teachers' Introvert a... see more
Abdullah M. Alotaibi
This study attempts to test whether 100 advanced Kuwaiti EFL learners have acquired the English locative alternation. A Grammaticality Judgment Task (GJT) was used to examine whether the participants have the ability to make a distinction between verbs th... see more
Arezoo Eshghipour,Gholamhassan Famil Khalili
This study investigated the effect of enactive pre-reading tasks on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners’ reading comprehension and self-efficacy. Moreover, it explored whether Iranian per-intermediate EFL learners’ reading comprehension and self-efficac... see more
Yumiko Yamaguchi,Satomi Kawaguchi
This study explores how relative clause (RC) constructions develop in the acquisition of English as a second language (L2). The acquisition of RC constructions has been the focus of much research in the field of language acquisition, but a majority of L2 ... see more
Omar A. S. Al-Shabab,Farida H. Baka
In the dynamics of environmental context, the referent of a linguistic sign changes, but the sign persists as a verbal symbol. Since a technical term strictly evokes one referent, it may lack in specificity due to the ever-changing reality, resulting in h... see more
Weiwei Xu
V. S. Naipaul’s depiction of the dull London life in Mr Stone and the Knights Companion challenges metropolitan-centrism in cosmopolitanism. Criticising the self-consciousness and insularity of English people, Naipaul illustrates the point that the multip... see more
Yuanyi Ma,Bo Wang
The present study offers a corpus-based analysis of two written corpora, i.e. a native speaker corpus (part of the Louvain Corpus of English Essays) and a non-native speaker corpus, which is composed of several essays written by Hong Kong first year unive... see more
Hussam Rajab,Khalid Khan,Tariq Elyas
Based on a mixed-method approach, this interpretive exploratory case study aimed to identify English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ perceptions and practices in Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) in the Saudi context. The study analysed quantitative d... see more
Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs
Recent studies in different parts of the world have highlighted that phrasal verbs constitute a learning difficulty for English language learners despite their confirmed significance and high productivity in English. Proposed explanations include cross-li... see more
Marcel Danesi
Conceptual Fluency (CF) and the related notion of metaphorical competence (MC) emerged in the mid-1980s as a pedagogical response to the research findings and insights that were crystallizing in the fledgling field at the time of cognitive linguistics, an... see more
Seino Evangeline Agwa Fomukong
Exchanging messages is a human activity that involves an addresser and an addressee. The addresser encodes their thoughts, most often, in codes and sends them to be decoded by the addressee. For the addressee to decode the message, both of the... see more
Elham Sadripour,Khalil Motallebzadeh
Review of the past literature on the characteristics of successful language learners indicates that more successful learners are those who apply more strategies. Although a sizeable number of studies were conducted on language learning strategies, there i... see more
George Ewane Ngide
This article sets out to examine Wilfred Owen’s war poems which showcase his vigorous philosophy on and against war. We contend that instead of considered only as “a war poet”, Owen was more “a poet at war”, better still, a poet against war. The terms are... see more
Atef Odeh AbuSa’aleek
There are different innovations in computer-mediated corrective feedback (henceforth CMCF), which help in offering corrective feedback to the students and proved to have an effect on learners’ linguistics outcomes. This study aims to present comprehensive... see more
Ali Abdulhameed Faris,Shamala Paramasivam,Tan Bee Hoon,Abdul Muati Zamri
Remarkable politicians are those who are skilled at communicating their ideas with a good sense of persuasion. The present paper is an endeavour to investigate the persuasive strategies of the African leader, Nelson Mandela, with reference to his address ... see more
Esmail Zare-Behtash,Amin Saed,Fatemeh Sajjadi
The main purpose of the present quasi-experimental study is to investigate the effect of storytelling technique on writing ability of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To this end, 40 female intermediate EFL learners with the age range of 14-16 attending... see more
Yanlong Wang
The idea that different languages foster different world views in their speakers is part of a tradition popularized by Wilhelm von Humboldt in the 18th century long before it became associated with Whorf. In this long process, another two American l... see more
Bahee Hadaegh,Parvaneh Javidnejat
Considered as literary pieces of fantasy and secondarily a possible version of magic realism, J.K. Rowling’s seven Harry Potter (1997-2007) novels have been involving the readers of different age groups and succeeded in unleashing the target imagination. ... see more
Afsaneh Bashiri,Mohsen Shahrokhi
The present study intended to examine the potential role of process-based approach on improving the writing skill, critical thinking ability, and autonomy among Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 60 Iranian intermediate EFL students aged 18-23 were select... see more
Hussein H. Zeidanin,Asmaa M. Al Zuraigat
Emile Zola and other naturalistic novelists such as Stephen Crane, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, John Steinbeck and Richard Wright perceive naturalism as an anti-romantic philosophy dispensing with emotions, sentiments and imagination and paro... see more
Manizheh Alami
Given that a systematic treatment of Persian Discourse Markers (hereafter DMs) is almost absent in modern Persian linguistics and to bridge this gap, the audio-recorded data comprising 14 face to face casual conversations involving two-party and multi-par... see more
Farahanna Abd Razak,Ida Baizura Bahar Ida Baizura Bahar,Rosli Talif
Time for a Tiger (1956), a novel by Anthony Burgess, is believed to have been overlooked in the Malaysian literary context. Existing scholarship has maintained that the central themes of Time for a Tiger are colliding cultures, clashes of religion and rac... see more
Majid Farahian
This study was designed to investigate the reading difficulty of some foreign language (FL) learners who were unsuccessful at English reading comprehension. It was hoped that a case study would yield a more comprehensive picture of the group of learners’ ... see more
Asim Ismail Ilyas (Al-Titinchy)
This paper distinguishes between traditional teaching known as lecturing (the teacher centered approach); and tutoring (the contemporary technology-oriented interactive teaching/learning approach). It is based on the implementation of tutoring strategies ... see more