20 articles in this issue
Mehdi Gran Hemat,Chan Swee Heng
This study, as a concise and critical literature review, examines related studies that investigated the interplay of the three constructs: ethnic identity, national identity and language policy. To do this, five related research articles were located and ... see more
Santini Pathinathan,Yong Mei Fung
This paper seeks to investigate the types of conflicts that occur during collaborative writing among a group of ESL/EFL upper intermediate students in a preparatory programme. It also examines how these conflicts are resolved among the group members. A gr... see more
Sarah Yong Enxhi,Tan Bee Hoon,Yong Mei Fung
The common perception of Malaysians is that they are unable to speak fluently and communicate effectively in the English language as most Malaysians do not speak English as their first language. In a country that is full of diversity in terms of race and ... see more
Sabariah MD Rashid,Pabiyah Hajimaming,Nurul Nadia Muhammad
Animals are commonly used in figurative expressions, such as proverbs and idioms. Their features, characteristics, and/or behaviours are employed as metaphors to convey certain meanings. This study sought to examine animal metaphors of Malay and Arabic fi... see more
Lam Yik San,Helen Tan
This study seeks to compare and contrast the rhetorical moves in abstracts of students’ term papers and published articles in the field of Computer and Communications Systems Engineering. The reason is to identify to what extend the rhetorical moves used ... see more
Ain Nadzimah Abdullah,Chan SweeHeng
Malaysia is an example of a diverse nation with communities facing multiplicities in religions, languages, linguistic practices and cultural beliefs. These multiplicities and polarities need to be understood and managed in order to maintain harmony and un... see more
Chuah Ek Lon,Helen Tan,Ain Nadzimah Abdullah
Abstracts form the first reading contact of extended discourse in pursuance of a meaningful engagement with a report. An abstract possesses distinct features drawn from a specific genre of academic writing that communicates its discourse intent to any aca... see more
Mojde Yaqubi,Ebrahim Davoudi Sharifabad,Wan Rose Eliza Abdul Rahman
In this article, we will concentrate on translation of Persian face-threatening acts (FTAs) into English. The present paper possesses both social and pragmatic objectives. These objectives are: 1) to identify the politeness strategies (PSs) applied for re... see more
Haiyan Men
The present study tries to unveil the images of career women depicted on the internet within the framework of corpus linguistics. Based on web corpora, internet reportage of women from the fields of education, politics, business, media, medicine, law, and... see more
Abdel Rahman Abdalla Salih
Universities and colleges often administer student feedback surveys on teaching to elicit students’ views of how a particular course is taught and learned in order to improve teaching quality by helping tutors increase opportunities for better learning. T... see more
Asghar Salimi,Parviz Alavinia,Parvin Hosseini,Ali Shafaei
The past twenty years has witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of studies investigating different aspects and features of tasks in the second and foreign language class and their effects on learners’ oral and written task performance. Building up... see more
Luis Guerra
According to Riley (2007) the term ‘identity’ can be used to talk about what makes individuals just that, individual, who self-reports using the pronoun ‘I’, which is subjective and private. On the other hand, we can also use ‘identity’ to talk about what... see more
Muhammed Parviz
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) offers us a chance to understand how social relationships are built and maintained in an environment in which interlocutors not only lack the paralinguistic features that are vital to face-to- face conversation, but a... see more
Mina Abbasi Bonabi,Hasan Iravani
The paper is an attempt to investigate the underlying discoursal functions of metaphors in terms of their contribution to the creation of discoursal coherence in literary text-type. Metaphoric expressions are not ornamental aspects of speech. Rather they ... see more
Massoud Yaghoubi-Notash,Mohammad Amin Karafkan
Various studies have laid emphasis on the nature and patterns of strategy employment in EFL context. Most studies, however, tend to examine those strategies in learner performance. In this study, the researchers investigated the types of communication str... see more
Somaye Hamdi asl,Azizollah Dabaghi
Studies regarding gender differences in EFL context have been done for many years. However, it seems that writing, which is a vital skill in academic issues, has gained much less attention in this area. In addition, not having enough knowledge of gender d... see more
Farhad Golpour
Choosing a course textbook is an overwhelming task for both teachers and administrators. The aim of this study was to evaluate Iranian junior high school textbook series base on validated criteria. For this purpose a careful analyzing textbook evaluation ... see more
Adebola Adebileje
This study aims at describing the socio-semantic characteristics of twelve selected nicknames used by Yoruba brides for their in-laws. The data for the study was collected through observation, structured interview and review of literature. The collected n... see more
Zaidan Ali Jassem
This paper examines the genetic relationship between verb to be forms in Arabic and English mainly as well as German, French, and Latin secondarily. It applies the principles and tools of the lexical root theory according to which be-forms are shown to be... see more
Holi Ibrahim Holi Ali
This study is set to examine EFL teachers’ perceptions, views about what makes an effective performance appraisal system by adopting a quantitative survey design for data collection. A total number of 45 college instructors in the Sultanate of Oman respon... see more