30 articles in this issue
Azizollah Dabaghi,Ahmad Moinzadeh,Majid Mobasheri
This descriptive study attempts to see to what extent interpreter training courses offered in bachelor’s degree of English translation in Iranian universities are able to prepare students by teaching them the necessary skills of interpreting. Semi-s... see more
Mohammad Amin Karafkan,Zahra Aghazadeh
Cooperative learning consists of some techniques for helping students work together more effectively. This study investigated the effects of Group Investigation (GI) and Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) as cooperative learning techniq... see more
Sihem Boubekeur
Teaching English as a foreign language refers to instructing English to learners who are non native speakers. Mastering the language very well does not mean neither that the teacher can instruct writing in a good way; nor the student can compose coherentl... see more
Maryam Rahmatollahi,Gholamhassan Famil Khalili
Speaking is the first to be acquired in the process of language production. In parallel, the absence of communication apprehension and the presence of willingness to communicate are the essential prerequisites for stringing words together. The purpose of ... see more
Laila Al-Sharqi,Irum Saeed Abbasi
Censorship is a double-edged sword that has bred legal, political, and moral wrangling across the globe. The basic controversy, which harkens back to ancient times, stems from the motivation and intention of the censoring authority. The censoring authorit... see more
David I. Méndez,M. Ángeles Alcaraz
We analyze Astrophysics titles published in Scientific American Magazine in the period 1990-2014 and compare them with Astrophysics titles of specialized journals. Our main results show that titles published in Scientific American are short, clear, direct... see more
Saeed Ahmad,Nazeer Ahmad
Inter-Cultural Competence (ICC) is a topic of hot debate in the educational circles since 1960s. The traditional models of Communicative Competence which focus on native speaker models fall short of making learners adjustable in the international settings... see more
Nandin-Erdene Osorjamaa,Nansalmaa Nyamjav
There are numerous researches on color terms and names in many languages. In Mongolian language there are few doctoral theses on color naming. Cross cultural studies of color naming have demonstrated Semantic relevance in French and Mongolian color name G... see more
Mahdi Shamsi
Freedom is one of the major elements in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. In an age when American women were usually engaged or married, James’s heroine, Isabel, was somewhat ahead of her time in hoping for a marriage in which she could still be indep... see more
Hamid Reza Sadeghpour,Ali Khazaeefar,Masood Khoshsaligheh
Dubbing is one of the developing areas in Translation Studies, and this study aimed at investigating the translation strategies used in the dubbing of comedy animations from English to Persian. Since colloquial, idiomatic, and humorous expressions have th... see more
Sami Alanazi
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the validity of the controversial data-gathering tool Grammaticality Judgment Task on measuring the grammatical competency of Saudi EFL learners. Despite the widespread use of GJT in SLA research, it is surrou... see more
Brahim Bouali
Derrida and Blanchot[1] may be right when they consider genre as an imposition on a text. They seem to agree that a text achieves its singularity status only by “exceeding genre conventions”. They are also compelling when both of them, though in different... see more
Meixia Li,Yuan Xie
Males have had greatest authorities in Chinese families since ancient times. However, it can be sensed that their authorities in families are declining in recent decades. Then such questions arise: first, are there any concrete evidences that can show us ... see more
AilarMoghaddam Jahangiri,Mohammad Ali Ayatollahi
Ideology plays an important role in our life. Translation and language are always sites of ideological encounters. Translation is represented through a dominant ideology of any society. If translation theories and ideology put under scrutiny, evidences re... see more
Asghar Salimi,Davoud Amini,Malahat Yousefzadeh
A number of studies has investigated whether definite types of written corrective feedback combinations of different types are more beneficial than others. It seems that teaching writing and giving feedback to students’ written task accuracy is an i... see more
Fatemeh Takallou,Freidoon Vahdany,Seyed Mahdi Araghi,Amir Reza Nemat Tabrizi
This paper reports on a study that investigated the effect of teaching test-taking strategies on Iranian high school students’ performance on English section of the National University Entrance Examination (Konkoor). To do so, 273 male and female high sch... see more
Abdel-Rahman H. Abu-Melhim,Mohammad H. Abood,Hamzeh M. Al-Zghoul,Rula M. Zughoul
This study aimed at investigating the relationship between irrational beliefs and foreign language anxiety among a sample of (118) undergraduate students at Ajloun National University in Jordan. To achieve the purpose of the study, two scales were used: A... see more
Goudarz Alibakhshi,Alireza Keikha,Behzad Nezakatgoo
Learner autonomy has been a controversial issue among teachers in general and teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) in particular. However, it seems that private institutes and state high school EFL teachers’ beliefs about feasibility and ... see more
Asghar Salimi,Elham Khayef,Davood Amini
In recent years, the application of writing tasks has effectively shed lights on promoting learners' written production. Research on SLA stresses the importance of tasks in the case of complexity, fluency and accuracy (Foster, 1997, 2001; Givon, 1985; Rob... see more
Omid Ostad,Mohammad Tarang
A large number of variables influence the way a learner comprehends a reading passage, one of which is prior knowledge. This study examines this variable to discover its effect on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian EFL learners. The data was eli... see more
Samira Sadeghi Mehr,Mahdi Shafieyan
Ecocriticism is a rather new insight into the relationship between literature and environment. In recent years, different environmental problems and devastations have led the critics to focus on the ecocritical concepts and terms in order to highlight the... see more
Rahmat Ollah Mahtabi,Razieh Eslamieh
This study is an attempt to investigate John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. Trilogy; The 42nd Parallel (1930); 1919 (1932); and The Big Money (1936) in the light of Raymond Williams. Analyzing the trilogy in terms of Williams’ hegemonic forces between dominant and e... see more
Hamzah Saleh Ghammaz
This study aimed at investigating the problems that Jordanian EFL learners encounter in presupposition triggered by certain factive verbs. Specifically, it sought to find out whether there is a relationship between the subjects’ proficiency level in Engli... see more
Amna Matar Al-Neyadi
Nineteenth century Britain witnessed an increased interest with the Orient, largely as a result of the imperial expansion that reached its peak during that time. India was one of the main Oriental interests of the Victorians because of the political, comm... see more
Peng Shi-Yong,Muhamad Sham Bin S. Ali
Using the scale of communication apprehension developed by McCroskey, a comparative study has been conducted between English majors and non-majors of different English learning experiences in a Chinese university. Whereas all the subjects remain at the me... see more
Doris Hambuch
This essay identifies four related functions regarding representations of the sea in Derek Walcott’s poetry. Historical, communicative, and spiritual functions of the ocean trope appear to complement the overarching self-referential purpose throughout the... see more
Muna Sulaiman Al-Badaai
Ayyub Ben Suleiman Diallo, better known as Job ben Solomon was among thousands of African Muslims enslaved in America. Job was a son of a high Priest from Senegal. He was kidnapped by his African enemy and sold as a slave in the New World in 1731. He work... see more
Yahia Ashour Mohammed AlKhoudary
This study explores the role of writing in developing students’ critical thinking. It also sheds light on traditional writing assignments which fail to help students develop their comprehension of course content and evaluate their writing products critica... see more
Khalid Al Hariri
Using L1 in the English classroom has long been considered as an unforgivable wrongdoing. Many English teachers who use L1 in the classroom feel guilty about it and in many cases do not admit it. Recent researchers started to question the validity of this... see more
Muhammed Ali Chalikendy
This paper explores the ways in which literature function as a source and as a meaningful context for teaching and learning English as a second language or foreign language. It claims that literature is an authentic, stimulating and appealing material to ... see more