30 articles in this issue
Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh,Bassil Mashaqba,Anas Huneety,Abu Muhareb Amer
Intertextuality appears to be of crucial significance to better comprehend texts (Ahmadian and Yazdani, 2013).This research addresses intertextuality as an important technique manifested in modern Arabic poetry trying to investigate its conception, identi... see more
Hamid Rahmani Sangani,Seyed Iman Bassir,Latifah Jalali
Conducting a research project and writing up a thesis could be as nearly demanding as it is essential for MA students to achieve their academic goals, particularly in developing world contexts such as Iran. One main reason for this, as experienced by some... see more
Alexander Philippovich Petrenko,Svetlana Anatolyevna Petrenko,Irina Borisovna Fedotova
The article is concerned with the study of literary relationships between the satire of the famous 20th-century Russian writer M. Bulgakov and the works by the Russian classics of the 19th century – N.V. Gogol and M.Y. Saltykov-Shchedrin. The article desc... see more
Azhar A. Alkazwini
The term 'lenition’ has numerous definitions offered in the Phonology of English language, some of which will be discussed in this study. Moreover, “Spirantization”, “approximantization”, “debuccalization” and “voicing” are changes that are counted as len... see more
Sabah Abdul Hameed Shakury
The purpose of this study is to discuss the effort of the leading character of Heminway’s The Old Man and the Sea, as an example of human effort, in a context which shows his sense of isolation in the society. Santiago’s awareness of his individual role i... see more
Mohsen Mobaraki,Amin Saed
This is a longitudinal case study of two Farsi-speaking children learning English: ‘Bernard’ and ‘Melissa’, who were 7;4 and 8;4 at the start of data collection. The research deals with the presence or absence of functional categories (CP),in ou... see more
Ahmad El-Sharif
This article investigates the question of homosexuality, homosexuals, and homophobia in the Jordanian public debate in the aftermath of an LGBTQIA meeting that was held secretly in Amman in May 2015. The main purpose of the article is to demonstrate the c... see more
Shabnam Talebi Eskandari,Farinaz Shirani Bidabadi
Listening skill has been recently paid great attention comparing with the other three language skills since having communication is the first and most essential need. Language learners have been using the three different listening strategies (Cognitive, M... see more
Aigul Eskermesovna Sadenova,Raushan Makanovna Yesbulatova,Farida Orazakynkyzy,Saule Anuar
Teaching of vocabulary includes several aspects of teaching content: linguistic, methodological and psychological. Teaching of vocabulary is a process which is inextricably entwined with understanding relations between new words and phonetic and grammar a... see more
Ahmad Gholi
The oft despised and ignored genre of travel writing was recognized as worthy of scholarly investigation in 1970s thanks to Edward Said’s Orientalism, the wave of deconstructionism, and postcolonialism (Calzati, 2015). For these scholars, travel writers d... see more
Ammar Abdullah Mahmoud Ismail
Epistemological beliefs—beliefs about the nature of knowledge, where it resides, and how knowledge is constructed and evaluated—have been the target of increased research interest lately. Heretofore, emphasis has been directed to language teaching/learnin... see more
Nasim Ariana,Masoumeh Ahmadi Shirazi,Seyed Mohammad Mousavi Nadoushani
This study attempted to investigate the extent to which two types of pragmatic instruction -explicit versus implicit- affect learners’ knowledge in terms of their awareness and production of request strategies. Thirty students with the same level of profi... see more
Svetlana Vladimirovna Dmitrichenkova,Elena Anatolyevna Dolzhich,Taisia Georgievna Popova
The aim of this study is to investigate the polycodedness of a Spanish scientific text as a result of interaction between codes of different semiotic systems and discourses. A polycode text focuses the fact of interaction of different codes, i.e. symbols,... see more
Indrajit Patra,Shri Krishan Rai
In this paper my aim is to analyze the theme of simulation in Charles Stross’ hard science fiction novel titled ‘Accelerando’ (2005). The discussion shall start by pointing out the enormous significance of the ideas of simulation both in the world of pure... see more
Hamid Bahador,Amir Zand-Moghadam,Maryam Fanaie
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of gender in Iranian EFL learners’ output complexity and scaffolding mechanism as they were performing the tasks. The participants were 18 intermediate learners from both genders who were selected base... see more
Bouchra Qorchi,Abdelaziz Bouchara
This paper includes the participation of six Moroccan Arabic-speaking aphasics (four with Broca’s aphasia, one with Wernicke’s aphasia and one with global aphasia). In our work, we turn to a particular under-resourced Arabic Dialect, Moroccan Darija or Mo... see more
Ella Germanovna Kulikova,Anna Vladimirovna Kuznetsova,Pavel Vsevolodovich Zayats,Vladimir Rafaeliyevich Sarkisiyants
A special role belongs to cross-cultural communication in the modern world. An attempt to limit the problem of the Russian language in Russia just with linguistic aspects, and only to culturological and political ones in the post-Soviet Union space is dee... see more
Seongyong Lee
This study investigated how three Korean ESL students constructed their writer identity in narrative and argumentative genres of writing. For this purpose, the qualitative data collected from interviews, observations and written documents for eight weeks ... see more
Mah’d Ahmad Al-halhooli,Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh,Halla Shureteh
Parallelism is one of the most conspicuous stylistic techniques that are marked by the receiver's ear, and it also has an excellent musical rhythm. Al-Ahwas[1] thoroughly familiarizes readers with an entire host of parallelistic arrangements in his poetry... see more
Tulegen Asylbekovich Merkibayev,Gulnar Kabylkalymovna Abdrakhman,Zhaina Bagasharovna Satkenova,Zhanar Aitbergenovna Seisenbayeva,Madina Kabylkyzy Abayeva
Creation problem of model of grammatical means of temporality expression in translation from English into Kazakh and Russian languages is considered in the article. At a choice of translation of transformations of aspectual-temporal categories of a verb f... see more
Ali S.M. Al-Issa
Students’ expectations have seldom received any attention in English Language Teaching (ELT) education research in the Arab World in general and in Integrated Content and Language in Higher Education (ICLHE)/English Medium Instruction (EMI) English for Ac... see more
Vahid Shahidi Pour,Gholam Reza Zarei
The present study aimed at investigating the effect of the social variable of education on the use of compliments and compliment responses in Persian. To this end, a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) was administered to 200 native Persian speakers from diff... see more
Zubairu Malah,Helen Tan,Sabariah Md Rashid
Applied linguists paying scholarly attention to newspaper genres have often argued that findings emerging from such studies would be of pedagogical significance because most of the newspaper genres share certain conventional features with school genres. S... see more
Maria Yu. Lebedeva,E.V. Koltakova,Olga N. Khaleeva,M.N. Rusetskaya
The research explores the effectiveness of using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) approach for the development of non-reciprocal listening skills in the context of studying Russian as a foreign language (RFL). Despite the fact that the influence... see more
Roghayeh Farsi
This study carries out genre analysis of John Ashbery’s poem, “Sonnet”. Swalesian genre analysis gives a systematic scrutiny into the moves a text makes to communicate its intentions to the members of a discourse unity. Investigating the applicability of ... see more
Toyese Najeem Dahunsi
Studies have established gender-based variations in human’s use of language, particularly in the areas of grammar and lexis. This study investigated language use in prose-works involving male and female writers, aimed at finding out whether there we... see more
Tatyana Benkovskaya,Zhumagul Maydangalieva
The paper is aimed at solving one of the strategical tasks stated in the Russian literature teaching methods that is associated with its coming into the world science and practice – presentation and dissemination of the Russian experience in the sphere of... see more
Swati Samantaray
Cosmic mysticism is an immediate experience of oneness with God by means of ecstatic and wordless contemplation. The Indian Renaissance poets Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo are spiritual humanists who believe that the entire creation is pervaded by... see more
Taha Talib Ali,Wong Fook Fei
Language anxiety is always seen as debilitative factor that deters learners from successfully learning a foreign language. Although many studies have been reported on foreign language learners’ anxieties, little research, if any, has been undertaken on Ir... see more
Mehdi Nasri,Reza Biria
Effective reading is essential for success in learning a foreign language. EFL learners, therefore, need to master a number of reading strategies to be able to comprehend text information. Strategic reading research has already evidenced the possibility o... see more