30 articles in this issue
Naji Masned AlQbailat,Islam M. Al-Momani,Yazan Shaker Almahameed
The current research paper attempted at investigating the use of prepositions of standard, prepositions of possession and prepositions of accompaniment by some Jordanian learners of English. A total of 53 Jordanian English Majors participated in the study... see more
Masoud Zoghi,Alireza Moradinejad
This study examined the effect of the interaction approach on young EFL learners’ lexical depth in a private language institute in Talesh, Iran. To achieve this, a Michigan test was administered to 40 EFL learners. Those language learners who met the sele... see more
Laila Al Sharaqi,Irum Abbasi
Twitter, synonymous with social networking, has become a successful social platform for the exchange of ideas, news, and information. It has also emerged as an experimental platform through which users explore creative realms of poetic and narrative conte... see more
Mahmoud El Salman
This is a sociolinguistic study that tries to investigate the peculiarity of the Bedouin dialect regardless of the place where it is used. Some variants that are used in their dialect are used wherever they are from. Two sounds in particular were chosen t... see more
Vahid Rafieyan
National cultural distance is considered to be a strong predictor of language learners’ pragmatic competence. To test the actual effect of national cultural distance on pragmatic competence holistically and comprehension and production aspects of pragmati... see more
Shahram R. Sistani
The parody figures noteworthy in Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People. It has been used as a postmodern form to deconstruct what it challenges. It provides both historical and racial investigation of a crucial period in the history of South Africa. Moreover, i... see more
Sajid M. Chaudhry,Anne A. Christopher,Hariharan A/L N.Krishnasamy
The study, qualitative and descriptive in nature, examines the use of transliteration in the paid Pakistani obituary announcements authored in the English language. Primarily, it identifies the frequently used transliterated vocabulary in these linguistic... see more
George Iber
In these days of standardized assessments in education that seek to measure the rate of learning in all subject matters, the question is seldom asked, “Just how long does it take to become proficient?” No matter the subject, we all agree that some a... see more
Saheb Mostofee,Samane Raeis Pour
Socioculturally and sociolinguisticlly, gender can have a profound effect on learning and teaching English language as a foreign language. Also learning cooperatively in which both female and male students are involved seems to play a construc... see more
Development of target language pragmatic competence in language learners requires not only provision of cultural features of target language community in language classes but also language learner’s willingness to learn and use those cultural features. To... see more
Marwah Kareem Ali,Anne A. Christopher,Munif Zarirruddin Fikri B. Nordin
This paper examines the discursive structures employed in legitimizing the event of U.S. forces withdrawal from Iraq and identifies them in relation to linguistic features. It attempts to describe the relation between language use and legitimation discurs... see more
Yang Qian,Liu Jingxia
With the development of globalization, English is clearly spoken by many more non-native than native speakers, which raises the discussion of English varieties and the debate regarding the conformity to Standard English. Although a large number of studies... see more
Samir Al-Sheikh
Being a linguistic phenomenon, poetry is marked by the defamilarization of language in a poetic discourse there is an aesthetic distortion of the normal codes, in which the aesthetic value is the most prominent function of the poetic texture . This ... see more
Sahar Al-Keshwan
This paper tries to analyze the language and the dialogue between characters in William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury and its conflict with the reality of the author. The tradition of the Compson family implies duality in this novel. Except Dilsey, th... see more
Muhammad Arif Soomro,Natasha Memon,Shumaila Aijaz Memonc
Teaching industry of English as a second or foreign language has grown massively in recent times in Pakistan. There are many public sectors universities and English academies established all over Pakistan offering English language proficiency courses. The... see more
Mahmoud Al Deeky
This research deals with the verb “qara’a” (read) and with what is derived from or built on in Qur’an and pre Islam poetry. The research stems from the assumption that this item (read) did not appear in pre-Islam Arabic in... see more
Abid Larbi Labidi
My major purpose in studying Caryl Phillips’s widely acclaimed novel Crossing the River is to examine, through a close textual analysis, the severe identity crisis inflicted upon slaves under the three-century long slavery institution. I explore how slave... see more
- Supiani
This research aims to describe the use of language code applied by the participants and to find out the factors influencing the choice of language codes. This research is qualitative research that describe the use of language code in the cross married cou... see more
Fahime Koochacki
The rich cultural connotations behind puns and the distinctive features of the puns’ form, sound and meanings pose great challenges to the translator. Furthermore, given puns’ non-negligible effects in Persian literary texts, it has been the aim of the pr... see more
John Kuriakose
Eliot’s poem The Waste Land is a pilgrimage in quest of an answer to the problem of desire—universal as well as personal—especially deviant sexuality, immoral behavior and their consequences. The traditional tags on the poem such as “a poem about Europe” ... see more
Hina Durrani
CLT and GTM have been popular and much practiced methodologies in classrooms worldwide in teaching English language. The purpose of the current research is to examine students’ attitude towards Grammar Translation Method and CLT in Pakistan at graduate le... see more
Vahid Nimehchisalem,Zahra Tarvirdizadeh,Sara Sayed Paidary,Nur Izyan Syamimi Binti Mat Hussin
The Problem Statement (PS) section of a thesis, usually a subsection of the first chapter, is supposed to justify the objectives of the study. Postgraduate students are often ignorant of the rhetorical moves that they are expected to make in their PS. Thi... see more
Shayesteh Ebrahimi,Parvin Saljeghe
Today, children's literature given the concept of childhood, has gained a special status in the studies of humanities. Children's poetry is one of the branches of this type of literature. Naturalistic themes have the highest frequency among the themes of ... see more
Rezvan Adelnia,Hadi Salehi
This study is an attempt to investigate impact of using a technique, namely, genre-based approach on improving reading ability on Iranian EFL learners' achievement. Therefore, an attempt was made to compare genre-based approach to teaching reading with tr... see more
Fatemeh Mostafavi,Fereidoon Vahdany
The current study aimed at investigating the possible effects of explicit teaching of affective strategies on Iranian EFL learners’ oral language proficiency and the extent of their anxiety in EFL classroom. First, PET test was administered to a tot... see more
- Amrita,- Anisha
Mira Bai, a saint-poet of North India is an important figure in medieval Hindi literature. Her bhajan-s (songs) profoundly represent the transforming of consciousness working through conceptual metaphors which fall in the realm of religious poetry wherein... see more
Israa' Burhanuddin Abdurrahman
Applying a stylistic analysis on certain texts refers to the identification of patterns of usage in writing. However, such an analysis is not restricted just to the description of the formal characteristics of texts, but it also tries to elucidate th... see more
Bahman Zarrinjooee,Shahla Khatar
This paper deals with Chinua Achebe’s (1930-2013) No Longer at Ease (1960) which depicts the dissemination of English culture in Nigeria and its effects on the life and identity of Obi Okonkwo, the Western educated male protagonist. The focus of this pape... see more
Sajjad Kianbakht
A literary translation is a device of art used to release the text from its dependence on prior cultural knowledge (Herzfeld, 2003). The present research investigates the use of pragmatic equivalence in two translations of the Azeri Turkish long poem "Hay... see more
Saeed Wadho,Shumaila Memon,Rafique Ahmed Memon
Motivation is, without question, the most complex and challenging issue faced by English language teachers today (Schiedekr & Freeman, 1999). It is a key contributing factor for L2 learning (Cheng & Dornyei, 2007; Gardner, 1985b). It is an established fac... see more