30 articles in this issue
Eunice M. Aclan,Noor Hashima Abd. Aziz
To survive in the 21st century workplace, communication skills are extremely important. However, a mismatch between the industry requirement and the university graduates’ competencies in terms of effective communication skills exists. Rote learning and la... see more
Leyli Azizzadeh,Leila Dobakhti
Developments in the area of task-based language teaching (TBLT) research have heightened the need to focus on the task implementation factors in the sense that they are effective in successful language performance to occur. The present study aimed to exam... see more
Hamideh Baggali B.,Davud Kuhi
Increasingly indispensible inquiry for international academic communication has appointed English for Academic Purposes (EAP) as one of the prime focuses of university curriculum designers. The structure of EAP textbooks and numerous need analysis studies... see more
Andisheh Saniei,Parviz Birjandi,Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh
This paper is a preliminary study designed to scrutinize the way Group Dynamic Assessment (G-DA), suggested by Poehner (2009), has been implemented in L2 classrooms regarding its basic premise: moving the group forward in its ZPD while benefiting individu... see more
Hameed Yahya A. Al-Zubeiry
This study aims at describing the system of SPA (Saudi pidginized Arabic) as produced by AFEs (Asian foreign expatriates) working in Saudi Arabia with specific reference to universal characteristics of reduction and simplification in the system of morpho-... see more
Jila Naeini
The aim of this study was to examine and compare the impact of two Dynamic Assessment (DA) approaches, that is, Feuerstein’s Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) and Brown’s Graduated Prompt (GP) on Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension. Therefore, a ... see more
Naghmeh Jebreil,Akbar Azizifar,Habib Gowhary,Ali Jamalinesari
This article aimed at investigating the level of writing anxiety of the Iranian EFL students with different proficiency levels. To do so, 45 students (elementary, intermediate, and advanced learners) studying in Azad University of Ilam, Iran were selected... see more
Massoud Yaghoubi Notash,Mohammad Amin Karafkan
Communication strategies, as goal-oriented lines of action to obviate breakdowns in the flow of communication, have been the subject of extensive studies in SLA. While student-employed strategies have been duly investigated in the literature, those employ... see more
Hooshang Khoshsima,Mehri Izadi
The present study aims at providing a clear picture of Julian Rotter’s (1966) locus of control and learners’ creative thinking. Specifically, the study seeks to determine the differences between internal and external orientation in creative writing. ... see more
Pauline Ghenghesh
This paper aims to investigate if there is a relationship between English language proficiency and the overall academic performance of Preparatory Year students in three faculties: Engineering, Business (including Business Administration, Economics and Po... see more
Ayda Rahmani
The present study is an attempt to investigate the effects of authentic vs. pedagogical tape scripts on Iranian EFL learners' listening comprehension ability. For this purpose an OPT (Oxford Placement Test) was administered to a total of 78 Iranian EFL le... see more
Tahereh Siamardi,Reza Didari
The present study is an attempt to investigate traces of Homi K Bhabha’s postcolonial key notions in V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas (1961). Postcolonialism as a postmodern approach seeks to illustrate the relationship between the colonizer and the... see more
Alexandra Anastasiadou
This paper will delve into the last three versions of curriculum for the teaching of English in the Greek state school in the last seventeen years (1997- 2014). More specifically, an analysis of these three curriculums was carried out with a view to traci... see more
Amir Barati,Razieh Eslamieh
Jacques Lacan’s (1901-1981) theory of subjectivity provides literary criticism with an authentic approach to the analysis of characters. Slavoj Žižek, also, supplies his own reading of the Lacanian theory by adding Hegel to the Lacanian Subject and genera... see more
Yasemin Aksoyalp,Tugba Elif Toprak
Investigating the presence and presentation of speech acts in course books may be significant in an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) environment since in most cases, students rely on them for pragmatic input. Though a large body of research has dealt w... see more
Behnaz Rafiee,Reza Deedari
The present article is the study of Louise Erdrich’s Tracks (1997) and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1988) in the light of postcolonial feminism theories of Spivak. Feminist discourse shares many similarities with post-colonial theory and for t... see more
Negar Moradi,Mohammad Jafar Jabbari
Since the 1970s the phenomenon of politeness theory has come to the fore as one of the areas of applied linguistics. This notion has recently played a pivotal role in the realm of translation studies as well. However, the number of research projects in th... see more
Personalized learning is a self-initiated, self-directed or self-prioritized pursuit which gives the learner a degree of choice about the process of learning i.e. what to learn, how to learn and when to learn. Of course personalized learning does not indi... see more
Atefeh Rezanejad,Zahra Lari,Zahra Mosalli
According to Arthur (2006, p. 200), “Through the use of literature, a language learning experience might become at the same time a source of immediate pleasure and satisfaction for the student. This possibility makes literature an appealing teaching devic... see more
Raheleh Bahador,Esmaeil Zohdi
Mirroring the complexities of the human psyche, literature has received new comprehension through a psychoanalytic lens. Alice Munro's "Runaway" (2003) is character-based and has the psychological analysis potential but it had never received such ki... see more
Morteza Mellati,Marzieh Khademi,Afsaneh Shirzadeh
Teachers’ beliefs are derived from various sources such as experiences and personality (Kennedy, 1997; Donaghue, 2003; Ellis, 2008), childhood learning experiences (Rokeach, 1968), teaching experiences (Zeichner and Tabachnick, 1981), and folk pedagogy (B... see more
Mohammad B. Aghaei
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s literary discourse actually portrays the destructive domination of colonial and imperialistic powers and civil wars that led to a series of insecurities and poverty in the community. In fact, whatever he has presented in his works... see more
Farideh Peyghambarian,Mohammad Ali Fatemi,Hamid Ashraf
Online Formative Assessment (OFA) improves EFL students’ reading comprehension enabling them to have a better performance in reading comprehension tests. To lend support to the above mentioned claim, a quasi-experimental study was conducted in Mashhad, Ir... see more
Ahmad Abdel Tawwab Sharaf Eldin
Metaphor has been generally contemplated and broke down inside the schema of verbal and written discourse, scholarly works and artistic studies. It has been identified with metaphorical language and has been viewed as quite recently a sort of aesthetic fr... see more
Bahram Behin,Mahdiyeh T. Khiabani
Since the publication of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, there have been great amounts of ideological criticism both for and against the author and the work. Critics have variously evaluated the work from different perspectives; however, these s... see more
Hao Tang,Yanyin Zhang
Processability Theory (PT) believes that L2 learner can not understand and produce those linguistic forms which are beyond the current stage of the language processor (Pienemann, 2007). Based on the understanding of the architecture of the language proces... see more
Mohammad Reza Hasannejad,Hamid Bahador,Seyyed Ali Kazemi
This study aimed to investigate if dual version reading comprehension had a positive effect on Intermediate EFL students’ general vocabulary acquisition, receptive and productive knowledge of vocabulary and students’ synonymous power of words. Two groups ... see more
Mukesh Yadav,Shalini Yadav
This paper investigates the identity issues of South-Asians in the Diaspora. It engages the theoretical and methodological debates concerning processes of culture and identity in the contemporary context of globalization and transnationalism. It analyses ... see more
Alireza Shakarami,Hassan Khajehei
Looking at learning procedure in general and language learning in particular, variations abound in learning processes and styles. Along this journey, some learners travel/move ahead smoothly and some others are faced with challenges of differen... see more
Samira Sasani
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion portrays the mutually complex relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. Pygmalion, a mimicry play, shows how the mimicry strategy, proposed by Homi K. Bhabha, paradoxically functions as both resemblance and menac... see more