30 articles in this issue
Sara Saei Dibavar,Shideh Ahmadzadeh
In Wuthering Heights, Brontë provides us with the opportunity to meet two writing subjects; Emily Brontë herself and her character Catherine Earnshaw. Both these writers resist and challenge the authority of the patriarchal. Their different methods o... see more
Reza Biria,Abbas Mehrabi Boshrabadi,Elham Nikbakht
Human cognitive competence represents individuals’ subconscious knowledge of abilities, talents, and mental skills collectively called “multiple intelligences (MIs)”, which play a pivotal role in facilitating human learning. Thus, the main objective of th... see more
Jahangir Mohammadi
This paper is devoted to finding adequate answers to the following queries: (A) what are the segmental and syllabic pattern errors made by Kurdish students in their pronunciation? (B) Can the problematic areas in pronunciation be predicted by a systematic... see more
Wu Cuihua,Liu Lingling
This paper spotlights the twelve slogans of the Olympic Games in order to critically analyze the ideologies underlying the discourse. By taking the principles of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Halliday’s (1994) systemic-functional grammar (SFG) as ... see more
Afrouz Aeineh,Saeed Moeeni,Hamideh Merati
The present study investigated the effect of learner generated illustrations on the immediate and delayed idiom recall of Iranian EFL (English as a foreign language) learners. To accomplish this end, 40 female students participated in this study. A placem... see more
Seyed Ali Booryazadeh,Sohila Faghfori,Habibe Shamsi
Roland Barthes as a fervent proponent of semiology believes that semiology is a branch of a comprehensive linguistics: it is the study of how language articulates the world. Semiotic codes, the paths of this articulation, accordingly underlie his attentio... see more
Amani K. Gashan,Fahad M. Almohaisen
This study aimed to examine the effect of task repetition on foreign language output. Twenty eight Saudi female students in the Preparatory Year (PY) at King Saud university, were randomly selected to conduct an oral information-gap task. The participants... see more
Maryam Sedaghat
The relationship between history and ethics may seem irrelevant at first; however, these two have been related during the long history of war, violence and mass killing. The need of history to ethics is for saving itself from all the violence and terror. ... see more
Hmoud Alotaibi
The most significant constructs of ESL pronunciation models are accentedness, intelligibility, and comprehensibility (Derwing & Munro 2005; Jenkins, 2000; Pickering, 2006). It is clear though that the assessment of these characteristics shows no considera... see more
Nafiseh Salman Saleh,Pyeaam Abbasi
As a prolific nineteenth century novelist, Thomas Hardy witnessed how women were treated as well as the dreadful conditions in which they lived. Well aware of the nineteenth century limitations on femininity, Hardy stood for women’s downtrodden rights. He... see more
Sara Noroozi,Tam Shu Sim,Vahid Nimehchisalem,Gholamreza Zareian
In the body of literature on listening strategies to EFL learners, what seems to be lacking is that the focus is on teaching listening strategies to learners with little attention to their listening comprehension problems. No local research has been condu... see more
Abdel-Rahman Abu-Melhim
This study aims at investigating the status of Arabic in the United States of America in the aftermath of the 9/11 World Trade Center events. It delves into this topic and identifies the main reasons for the increased demand for learning Arabic. It also d... see more
Mohammad Aliakbari,Nazal Allahmoradi
Basil Bernstein (1971) introduced the notion of the Restricted and the Elaborated code, claiming that working-class speakers have access only to the former but middle-class members to both. In an attempt to test this theory in the Iranian context and to i... see more
Heralded as a sympathizer with the oppressed nineteenth century femininity, Thomas Hardy adopted an aggressive stance towards the institutionized codes of the time particularly the ideal of femininity which results in presenting him as one of the promethe... see more
Zafer SAFAK
Epic theater, which is formed by Bertolt Brecht in the early 20th century and peaks in the following decades, challenges the persistent drama convention initiated first by Aristotle. Bertolt Brecht, who is propelled by Marxist convictions and dialectical ... see more
Hooshang Khoshsima,Forouzan Rezaeiantiyar
The present experimental study primarily aimed at examining the effect of presentation strategy on reading comprehension of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To determine the effect of this strategy, 61 students who enrolled in English Language Center of... see more
Sundus Muhsin Ali,Khalid Shakir Hussein
This paper presents an attempt to verify the comparative power of two statistical features: Type/Token, and Hapax legomena/Token ratios (henceforth TTR and HTR). A corpus of ten novels is compiled. Then sixteen samples (each is 5,000 tokens in length) are... see more
Leila Tafreshi,Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya
Toni Morrison is a master of trauma literature, but trauma theory and a gender response to trauma remain largelyunaccounted for in her migration literature, specifically Jazz (1992). In Jazz, two migrant women are affected by thesame trauma, a crime of pa... see more
Nasser Rashidi,Alireza Khormaei,Maryam Zarei
This study takes a critical discourse analysis approach to the investigation of the representation of men and women in Bozorg Alavi’s short stories. The principal aim of this study is to find how different statuses of men and women are reflected in their ... see more
Ali Rahimi,Maryam Saberi
In recent years, teachers' self-efficacy has demonstrated a profound influence on the daily lives of teachers and their students. However, little is known about the relationship between teachers' personality traits and their self-efficacy. To gain more in... see more
Anaso George Nwaorah,Nwabudike Christopher Eziafa
An in depth investigation was conducted on the possibility of literature employed to enhance cohesion, sustainable unity, national stability and security of lives and property in the contemporary Nigeria. These three elements- Unity, national stability an... see more
Seyyed Yavar Hosseininik,Hamid Rahmani Sangani
This study investigates the effects of cross-linguistic consciousness-raising through comparing and contrasting learners’L1 (Persian) and L2 (English) on their L2 written performance. To do this, sixty intermediate language learners, both male and female,... see more
Mir Mohammad Khadem-Nabi
This paper discusses the lexical choices made by the translator of a novel. The novel, The Gadfly, has a political significance for the pre-revolutionary Iran. Lexical choices were discussed in light of the methodology provided by Leuven-Zwart who introdu... see more
Mohsen Jafarpour
Inspired by current issues in lexical depth and previous extensive reading (ER) investigations, this study examined the effectiveness of ER approach in lexical depth of young EFL students in Iran. In the present study, two male classes were formed. One of... see more
Mousa A. Btoosh
Perhaps rarely is there any piece of Pre-Islamic Arabic literature where color features more strongly and less naturally than in Antara’s poetry. Therefore, the intended message of color in Antara’s poetry is adequately understood inasmuch as the pragmati... see more
Xiaoyan Huang,Robert Sultan
This study examines terms of address currently used by employees of Chinese business enterprises. The authors find that a speaker’s address selections are related significantly to the gender of the speaker, the location of the enterprise in Eastern or Wes... see more
Mohammad Reza Amirian,Mohammad Davoudi,Mohsen Ramazanian
Dynamic Assessment (DA), is grounded in Vygotsky's idea on Sociocultural Theory (SCT) of mind, his concept of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and its related metaphor; scaffolding. This study examined the effects of dynamic assessment on improving read... see more
Yoseph Tizazu
This study reports the dominant linguistic errors that occur in the written productions of Arba Minch University (hereafter AMU) students. A sample of paragraphs was collected for two years from students ranging from freshmen to graduating level. The samp... see more
ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED SANI
This paper aims at a theoretical comparative textual analysis of two novels; Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God (1964) and Ibrahim Tahir’s The Last Imam (1984). The focus is on their similarities generally and roles played by the heroes in their different socie... see more
Amr M. El-Zawawy
The present study addresses the problem of rendering the ????'fa??al' hyperbolic pattern into English in two recent translations of the Qur'an. Due to the variety of Qur'an translations and the large amount of hyperbolic forms of Arabic verbs recorded in ... see more