30 articles in this issue
Irwandy M.Pd
The aim of this paper is to explore the analysis of Universal Grammar (UG) approach on Second Language Acquisition (SLA). This paper is significant as the sources for teacher or researcher of the second language since this elaboration is deeply focusing o... see more
Noraini Ahmad Shukri,Jayakaran Mukundan
Many ESL instructors are generally in agreement with the belief that it is essential that students should be assisted in developing critical thinking skills while being engaged in their language learning process especially those learning the target langua... see more
Wazira Ali Abdul Wahid,Eqbal Sulaiman Ahmed,Muntaha Ali Abdul Wahid
This issue expresses a research study based on the online interactions of English teaching specially conversation through utilizing VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and cosmopolitan online theme. Data has been achieved by interviews. Simplifiers indica... see more
Eissa Al Khotaba,Bassam Al Magarbeh
The goal of this study is to investigate the influence of words categories on translating postgraduate students abstracts doing their M.A in Evaluation and Measurement at Mutah university in Jordan for the academic year 2014/2015. This qualitative and qua... see more
Angela Brown
Love and loss is facing the truth behind the facts that bears deep in our hearts. A child is not born a racist. Racism is something taught through words and actions. The fight against hate begins by demonstrating love and acts of kindness. The difference ... see more
Jael Anyango Ojanga,Furaha Chai,James Mutiti
Code switching, the use of any two or more languages or dialects interchangeably in a single communication context, is a common linguistic practice owing to the trend of multilingualism in the world today. In many situations of language in contact, consti... see more
Hadi Salehi,Marziyeh Ebrahimi,Susan Sattar,Mohammad Shojaee
The present study was conducted at Parsayan Language Institute in Isfahan, Iran. The students in pre- intermediate and intermediate classes were examined to investigate the relationship between degrees of learner autonomy, use of strategies for coping wit... see more
Mohammad Awad AlAfnan
This study explored the influences of relational elements and the background of communicators on the framing structure of email messages that were exchanged in an educational Institute in Malaysia. The investigation revealed that social distance played a ... see more
Masoud Qarajeh,Seyed Jalal Abdolmanafi-Rokni
The present study was set out to investigate the effect of social hubs on improving EFL learners' speaking skill. The participants of the study were 38 female and 26 male students between the age of 19 and 29. They were randomly assigned to two groups of ... see more
Farahnaz Rimani Nikou,Alireza Bonyadi,Negin Amirikar
The current study intended to find out the relationship between critical thinking skills and the quality of Iranian TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) students’ writing. One-hundred forty students who were homogeneous in their language proficie... see more
Amira A. Saleh,Tariq Elyas
The paper’s aim is to propose a design a syllabus for the new Muslims who have recently converted to Islam. The syllabus is multifaceted, addressing the basic linguistic, stylistic, and lexical features of 3 surahs (chapters) in the holy book in add... see more
Sabri Mnassar
This essay examines the environmental worthiness of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers and analyzes the various and competing environmental ethics that Cooper introduces in this novel through his descriptions of the different relationships between human... see more
Masoud Khalili Sabet,Maryam Kazempouri
Reviewing literature reveals that identifying generic structure of research articles (RAs) in different fields of study, especially ESP, has received much attention. The major purpose behind such trends of research has been raising researchers' awareness ... see more
Mousa Ahmadian,Majid Amerian,Ahmad Goodarzi
Vocabulary acquisition is one of the largest and most important tasks in language classes. New technologies, such as computers, have helped a lot in this way. The importance of the issue led the researchers to do the present study which concerns the compa... see more
Ruhollah Khanbeiki,Seyed Jalal Abdolmanafi-Rokni
The present study was aimed at providing the English teachers across Iran with a good and fruitful method of teaching pronunciation. To this end, sixty female intermediate EFL learners were put in three different but equivalent groups of 20 based on the r... see more
Mohammad Mohammadipour,Sabariah MD Rashid
Adopting a direct approach to contrive sufficient focus on form (accuracy) would facilitate interlanguage development without decreasing the naturalness of communication that communicative tasks can generate. This study aimed to determine the effectivenes... see more
Ayman M Abu-Shomar
Negotiating human conditions is an emblematic critical impetus of diaspora informed by multiple cultural possibilities practiced through the creation of multiple spaces that cross the realm of the ‘self’ to that of the ‘other’. It offers a locale to cross... see more
Alex Segal
Syllepsis (in one meaning of the term) is most commonly thought of as an ungrammatical construction which can in certain contexts function as a figure of speech. Yet the common view is at odds with syllepsis occurring in well-written prose that we experie... see more
Afsaneh Effatdokht Ramezani,Meysam Dehgahi,Hanie Hashemi
This study explored the learning style preferences of 40 Iranian students at Marefat Iranian high school in Kuala Lumpur of which, 20 are females and 20 are males. To this end, this study used structured interview to elicit in-depth information from the s... see more
Marveh Miri,Afshin Soori
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Napoleon Epoge
This paper aims at giving an analysis of certain syntactic peculiarities of reciprocal pronouns within verbs of psychological state, commonly known as psych-verbs. The analysis reveal that psych-verbs constructions have a peculiar property in that the bin... see more
Sun Yue,Wang Ying,Liu Jingxia
Facing the current situation that Chinese students are poor in English productive ability, the mode of only English-medium teaching is put forward to completely improve students’ English abilities and comprehensive competence by creating second language a... see more
Mohammad Akram Alzu’bi
The study investigates the comparative effectiveness of teaching English grammar by using deductive and inductive teaching models. The study also attempts to see which of these two methods has a positive effect on the grammar academic achievement of the u... see more
Xiuguo Huang
Flem’s economic reformation especially his replacement of credit business by cash business in Varner’s Store in The Hamlet marked the social transition from a more traditional, closer and bonded community to a rather detached, rational and mechanical comm... see more
Mohammed Albalawi
In the past few decades, there has been a steady growth of interest in studying the representations of Arabs in media as shown by the increasing number of journal articles. Scholars have talked abundantly about he ugly images of Arabs that have been shown... see more
Hanieh Mehr Motlagh
In The Tempest, Shakespeare represents a world in which the model of a panopticon within a panopticon reveals how the power relations functions. All the major and minor characters establish panopticons which start from their own bodies and soul and move t... see more
Kalina Maleska
This essay explores the theme of the double in Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Sharer and Zivko Chingo’s The Big Water. While traditionally the double is connected with the evil alter-ego of the protagonist, what bri... see more
Yousif A. Alshumaimeri,Maha S. Alzyadi
This study attempts to identify the extent of using authentic materials in the new series of secondary English textbooks (Flying High for Saudi Arabia) used currently in Saudi schools. Therefore, a content analysis instrument has been designed to analyze ... see more
Malihe Rajabi,Habib Gowhary,Akbar Azizifar
The current study extracted, first, 17 general patterns of intonation. Additionally, the present study investigated the roles that might be played by the gender of Ilami EFL teachers in observing the 17 patterns of intonation. Finally, the study determine... see more
Madiha Ahmad,Sofia Ahmad,Nida Ijaz,Sumera Batool,Maratab Abid
The article aims at the analysis of the TV commercials of three carbonated cold drinks from Pakistani media. The analysis will be carried out using the three dimensional framework presented by Fairclough. Through the analysis, the ideological framin... see more