30 articles in this issue
Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi
This study aims at conceptualizing students’ views concerning a method that allows subjective interpretation of literary texts. To this end, twelve EFL learners’ views were theoretically sampled and analyzed iteratively through the rigorous schemes of gro... see more
Ehsan Dehghani,Mehdi Sepehrmanesh
The American Dream is a recurrent theme in American literature. In this response, this paper is an attempt to expose the destructive effects of the dream on human spirits and relations and how it is contradicted in different ways through the analysis of h... see more
Abid Hayat Khokhar,Zaira Wahab
Poetry is one of the chief ingredients of the textbooks taught in the classes of language as well as arts that appeals to our senses in several domains. Imagery in poetry bears pictographic impact on the minds of the readers. This study aims at finding ou... see more
Majid Alavi,Leyli Jamali,Mina Bagerzadeh
Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story (1961) is a perfect example of Levinasian face-to-face encounter in American society. In this one-act play, Albee depicts failure of communication in American life. This article intends to examine the failure of communication ... see more
Hakimeh Shahrokhi Mehr,Masoud Zoghi,Nader Assadi
The traditional form of teaching speaking skill has been via face-to-face (FTF) interaction in the classroom setting. Today in the computer age, the on-line forum can provide a virtual environment for differential communication. The pedagogical system ben... see more
Hassan Soleimani,Esmaeil Ghaderi
Materials evaluation is a critically significant feature of a coherent curriculum to achieve the objectives of pedagogy. To this end, two EFL textbooks commonly taught in language institutes in Iran, namely Interchange series and American English File, we... see more
Zahra Hassani Laharomi
The present study attempted to describe in full detail the status of implicature translation in two 20-year time periods before and after Iran Islamic Revolution to provide a clear picture of the strategies applied by translators in the two eras and, as i... see more
Vahid Fallah Golchin,Mostafa Dayyani Kheirabadi
Language learning has experienced a shift of focus from a form-focused to a meaning-focused approach, and the necessity of using task-based learning, a relatively recent approach, has emerged. The vital role of task-based materials makes it obligatory not... see more
Ashraf Atta M. S. Salem
The present study aimed at investigating the effects of using a program based on the writing workshop approach on developing functional writing skills of pre-service teachers of English in Hurgada faculty of Education. For that purpose, the researcher con... see more
Akram M. Beiruti
This article is primarily concerned with the investigation of the importance of connotation in translation. The four meanings normally discussed in semantics are denotation, connotation, reference and sense. Denotation is the frame of meaning, which is fo... see more
Sadegh Khosronejad,Muhammed Parviz
Teaching language as a second or foreign language, undoubtedly, is so demanding and seeking to find methods for facilitating this prominent practice whets the appetite of any practitioner who works in this field. Research shows that using drama in the cla... see more
Shahab Khaki
WTC is very important for English learners. Without WTC it is impossible to use the target language. On the other hand, developing learner autonomy as the independence in one’s own learning is considered a crucial goal of education. More important than th... see more
John Wallen
Richard Burton has been interpreted and misinterpreted by literary critics as eminent as Edward Said and Louisa Pratt as well as by others such as Rana Kabbani and Reina Lewis. Biographers like Fawn Brody, Edward Rice, Mary Lovell and Jon Godsall have als... see more
Farid Mohammadi
One of the most interesting aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories, especially The Lord of the Rings is the presentation of the multidimensional characters; therefore, the complexity of interpretations concerning their actions, motives, and aims will be mani... see more
Fatemeh Pourjafari,Leila Anjomshoaa
As a South African female writer, the works of Nadine Gordimer have been frequently discussed through either the post-colonial or feminist principles of criticism. However, another way to interpret and evaluate these works, particularly her short fiction,... see more
Shadi Neimneh
This paper argues the construction of the other in literary discourses by analyzing C. P. Cavafy’s poem "Waiting for the Barbarians." Using textual analysis and postcolonial rhetoric, it shows that the other is a convenient myth created and maintained to ... see more
Ayodabo Joel Olatunde
This paper has looked at the dynamics of the structures of headlines. Related literature was reviewed on functions and influence of the print media, mass media and language development, and studies in headlines, to give the work the necessary theoretical ... see more
Leila Dobakhti
Research articles have received a wide interest in discourse studies particularly in genre analysis over the last few decades. A vast number of studies have focused on identifying the organizational patterns of research articles in various fields. However... see more
Elif Karakaya,Ayhan Kahraman
Although language teachers are aware of the benefits of using literature in language classrooms in theory, they do not use it “consciously” practically. For this reason, the purpose of the present paper is to “re-highlight” the use of literature in langua... see more
Indra Nugraha
Interference has become a crucial matter to recognize in bilingual and multilingual communities. The phenomenon of interference has affected how we as at least members of bilingual or even multilingual communities speak to the others. As the members of mu... see more
Iyabode Omolara Akewo Daniel
Communication is expected to result in meaning exchange. However, when definite meanings could not be established in a communication exchange, an odd situation usually results. Such situations are observed to actually go beyond syntactic and logical misno... see more
Mohammad Hassan Tahririan,Elham Sadri
Looking up unfamiliar words and writing their meanings in the margin of the texts is a common lexical processing strategy which serves to comprehension and retention of words’ meanings when reading English academic textbooks. This study investigated words... see more
Lina Mukhopadhyay
This study sets out to examine whether ESL teachers design evaluation criteria according to the demands of different question types assessing literary competence. Four students enrolled in an MA TESL programme were asked to respond to three types of quest... see more
Shahinaz A. Bukhary,Dalal A. Bahanshal
Motivation is a fundamental factor to fructify any functional and effective classroom setting with interest, hope and expressive fruitful teaching experience. Motivating foreign language learners to advance successfully in learning the target language (En... see more
Abdol Hossein Joodaki,Samaneh Shooshtarian
This paper attempts to render some vivid postmodernist features in Shepard’s True West (1980), which is inspired by myths of American life and popular culture. Shepard’s True West suggests so many interesting postmodern elements. With a departure from con... see more
Marzieh Sadeghpour,Sayyed Mohammad Alavi
The present study scrutinized the impact of congruent topics on the quality of L2 reading comprehension. 56 Iranian advanced-level students read 2 texts on a controversial topic, one on the advantages of child gender selection, and the other on disadvanta... see more
Zhaochun Yin
Lexical inferencing is referred to as guessing the meaning of an unknown word using available linguistic and other clues. It is a primary lexical processing strategy to tackle unknown words while reading. This study aims to explore the procedure of Chines... see more
Pezhman Nourzad Haradasht,Abdollah Baradaran
This research seeks to examine the effect of two models of reading comprehension, namely top-down and bottom-up processing, on the reading comprehension of extrovert and introvert EFL learners’ reading comprehension. To do this, 120 learners out of a tota... see more
Acheoah John Emike
The paper is an extra-linguistic critique of Austin’s speech act theory. In the context of the paper, extra-linguistic issues capture those factors that “legitimize” violations from the norms of English which are evident in Austin’s theory. We investigate... see more
Zainab Thamer Ahmed,Ain Nadzimah Abdullah,Chan Swee Heng
Language learning may be affected by a language instructor’s accent. Many studies have been carried out to investigate whether accent has an influence on learners’ perceptions toward their instructors or whether accent can affect employability. This overv... see more