30 articles in this issue
Majid Amerian,Moussa Ahmadian,Ehsan Mehri
One of the influential concepts of sociocultural theory in language acquisition research is the zone of proximal development, which is an opportunity for language learners to develop their capacities. It is believed that the learner’s language development... see more
Ali Derakhshan,Hoda Mohsenzadeh,Saeid Mohammadzadeh
The notion of implicature, the crucial role of which in second/foreign language learning has been repeatedly acknowledged by many scholars, is a key concept in Grice’s ground-breaking theory of Cooperative Principle (CP). According to this theory, interlo... see more
Masoud Zoghi,Leila Masoomi Far
In the present study, attempts were made to investigate and contrast the demotivating factors in English classes from the viewpoint of ESP students at different proficiency levels. To this end, 134 ESP students were chosen from Islamic Azad University, Ka... see more
Tariq Elyas
This article explores the English Foreign Language (EFL) learning identities of first year Education students against the backdrop of post 9/11 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The study makes use of narrative analysis (Benwell & Stokoe, 2006) identifying t... see more
Margarita Esther Sánchez Cuervo
This article proposes a rhetorical analysis of “The Enchanted Organ”, a short essay by Virginia Woolf that reviews Anne Thackeray’s collection of letters that was published after her death. In this review, Woolf portrays Anne Thackeray’s character startin... see more
Amaneh Kamalian,Anita Lashkarian
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Sami A. Al-wossabi
There is an evident lack of a comprehensive evaluation basis for Yemeni learners’ speaking skills in the English department, Hodeidah University. The present paper presents a detailed framework of oral assessment criteria that involves a description of ta... see more
Itoro Michael
This research centres on Anaang1 proverbial ideophones and its relevance in communication in. Data for this work was gathered during several field trips undertaken to the four speech communities of Anaang to collect data on Anaang folklore, for the ... see more
Ali Zangoei,Ali Derakhshan
Despite a laissez-faire approach to errors nowadays, appropriate corrective feedback makes an educational environment more communicative and effective. The present correlational study sought to scrutinize the relationship between EFL teachers’ preferences... see more
Amir Nikmehr,Fateme Jahedi
Nowadays, the notion of pragmatics is gaining more and more prominence among language learners. Communicating merely for the sake of communication is necessary but not sufficient. In order to truly communicate, issues such as the appropriateness of speech... see more
Alireza Shakarami,Hassan Khajehei,Karim Hajhashemi
Technology with its speedy great leaps forward has undeniable impact on every aspect of our life in the new millennium. It has supplied us with different affordances almost daily or more precisely in a matter of hours. Technology and Computer seems to be ... see more
Rebecca Kenseh Madaki,Zeng Li
Austen’s fictions may or may not set out to express the framework of imagery that projects the division of beings into four levels as enumerated by Northrop Frye in his Essay “The drunken boat: the revolutionary element in Romanticism”, her works, like th... see more
Elias Naqipour
This study attempts to show how Harold Pinter’s literary agenda turned towards radical political intervention during the last period of his literary and political activism. In order to do this, Slavoj Žižek’s rereading of F. W. J. Von Schelling, the Germa... see more
Salma Begum
Al Mahmud’s anti-imperial spirit is evident in his poems resisting the occupation of land by the imperialistic powers throughout the globe. He protests against the aggression of imperial powers at present as well as that happened in the past. Though forma... see more
Sina Soltanabadi Farshi,Fariba Omranzadeh
The aim of the current study was to survey the effect of gender, education level, and marital status of the EFL teachers on their burnout level in three syndromes of Emotional Exhaustion (EE), Depersonalization (DP), and Personal Accomplishment (PA). The ... see more
Majid Khorsand,Bahloul Salmani
The main focus of this paper is on speeches in literary discourse as the superb ideological displays of propaganda as well as their translations for having an enormous capacity for ideological manipulation. In this paper, the only present English-Azarbaij... see more
Ali Kazemi,Ali Sayyadi
Passing University Entrance Exams (UEE) successfully has long been a major concern for Iranian high school students. High Schools for the Gifted admit highly intelligent and hardworking students, who reportedly form a remarkable proportion of students adm... see more
Moza Abdullah Said Al-Malki
This study has investigated the relationship between IELTS testing and Omani English teacher trainees’ professional competencies by adopting a quantitative method for data collection. A total number of 94 graduate freshmen Omani English teachers’ IELTS, C... see more
Biook Behnam,Farhad Golpour
In recent years, genre studies have attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of the present study was to observe the differences in generic structure of abstract written by English native and non-native (Iranian) students in two disciplines of... see more
Mozhgan Jamali,Fatemeh Khonamri
There have been inconclusive results regarding the issue of feedback and no feedback to student compositions. The present study investigated potential differences in the effect, on writing accuracy, of focused meta-linguistic feedback, learner-oriented fo... see more
Ching-Yi Tien,Paul Talley
With the increasing use of the internet for reading texts, the habit of reading has been greatly influenced. More and more readers are choosing to read online rather than reading paper texts. In a pedagogical context, some research suggest that an increas... see more
Yasser Aminifard,Ebrahim Safaei,Hamdollah Askari
This study seeks to investigate how Iranian EFL learners employ suggestion speech act. With this aim, 105 Iranian EFL learners participated in this study. A Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was used to produce data related to the suggestion forms utilized ... see more
Nwabudike Christopher Eziafa,Ojoko E. A.,George Anaso Nwaorah
This research work centres on Language Barrier and the Performance of Secondary School Students in English Language in Katsina Metropolis. The study identifies the causes of failure in English Language in secondary schools, the factors responsible for the... see more
Morteza Mellati,Marzieh Khademi
Peer evaluation and technology-based instruction as the various domains of language teaching perspectives might affect language development. Group work in a technology-based environment might be more successful when learners are involved in developing the... see more
Saber Khooei Oskooei,Farzad Salahshoor
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between multiple intelligences (MI) and foreign language (L2) reading skill among Iranian EFL sophomores. Multiple intelligences and L2 reading measurements of participants – 29 males an... see more
Evdokimos Aivazoglou,Eleni Griva
The present study was designed and conducted with the purpose to assess primary school students’ awareness in GL1 (Greek as first language) and EFL (English as a foreign language) strategy use and investigate the relations between the reported reading str... see more
Cedra B. Binalet,July M. Guerra
Motivation has been regarded as the driving force to learn a language. Aside from the notion that motivation is an influential facet to language learning, motivation can also be regarded as varied among learners’ gender, socio-economic status and percepti... see more
Shataw Naseri,Kian Soheil
Georges Bataille believes that most of his contemporary discourses were spiritual and/or intellectual ones. They were, for him, vegetation-like discourses looking upward and underlining the role of head and thinking in their paradigms. He, instead, introd... see more
Albert Lekan Oyeleye,Iyabo Adebusola Adeyinka
This paper examines the discourse function of rhetoric and lexicalisation in insurance advertising discourse in the Nigerian print media. It investigates how they are used as part of the advertisers’ strategies of persuasion. Published insurance advertise... see more
Leila Hajian,Ali Akbar Khomeijani Farahani,Masomeh Ahmadi Shirazi
Written error correction may be the most widely used method for responding to student writing. Although there are various studies investigating error correction, there are little researches considering teachers’ and students’ preferences towards written e... see more