30 articles in this issue
Ezzeldin Mahmoud Tajeldin Ali,Abu Adam Osman Mahmoud Ahmed
This study attempts to examine the effect of using English literary texts in teaching the past simple and past perfect tenses of English as a foreign language (EFL) at the secondary schools' level, in Gadarif province, in Eastern Sudan. Teaching English t... see more
Samira Ahansaz,Mahdi Afkhaminia,Mustafa Ahansaz
From Antiquity to the Enlightenment, several biographical writings from Parallel Lives of Plutarch to the Memoirs of Saint-Simon were practiced. However, the eighteenth century saw the first emergence of the autobiography of introspection in the works of ... see more
Hooshang Khoshsima,Anahita Bajool
This paper sought to scrutinize the effects of tasks-based instruction on non-English major students’ speaking fluency. To this aim 40 students were selected who were divided into two homogeneous groups by administering a pretest to determine their ... see more
Mania Nosratinia,Mojgan Abbasi,Alireza Zaker
Based on the findings of previous studies which highlight the role of vocabulary knowledge in English as a Foreign Language/English as a Second Language (EFL/ESL) learners’ learning process, this study investigated the relationship among EFL learners’ Cri... see more
Bo Wang
This paper reports on a study based on a corpus of written professional discourses. Both e-mails and doumails (a specific sort of e-mail used at the website of douban) between a translator and several editors from a publishing house during a translation a... see more
Ahmad Gholi,Masoud Ahmadi Musaabad
From ancient times to the present, blacks have been the victim of both overt and covert racism in different parts of the world and Iran is no exception. The most inhumane and outstanding facet of racism is slavery which, due to their belief in their cultu... see more
Selcuk Koran
Teachers are seen as the major determinant sources of motivation for language learners. Moreover, teachers are expected to enhance learners’ motivation for better language learning since the positive effect of this relationship on the students’ achievemen... see more
Mohammad Mehdi Yazdani,Mojtaba Mohammadi
Investigating the efficiencies and deficiencies of reading strategies is one of the noticeable issues in the related theory and research in reading comprehension instruction. This study was to examine the impact of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA... see more
Ayda Rahmani
This article examines two of Toni Morrison’s novels, The Bluest Eye and Beloved in the lights of black feminism, racism, realism and naturalism. It is an attempt to reflect the powerlessness, inhumanity, and pains that women of color went through. B... see more
Mohammad Hussein Oroskhan,Sohila Faghfori
The backdrop of global deforestation and environmental degradation compelled the critics to change their angles of vision and examine the works of art differently. As a result, Eco criticism emerged as a new literary field in the 1990s. It investigates hu... see more
Nastaran Mireskandari,Sepideh Alavi
The present study investigated the effect of brain dominance on the use of Language learning speaking strategies. One hundred forty two undergraduate students of Shiraz University, Iran, participated in this study. The Hemispheric Dominance Test (HDT) was... see more
Mahdi Aslani,Bahloul Salmani
Recently the impact of ideology of the powerful agents namely- Political Parties, News Agencies and even the translators- on the translation has been considered significantly among the translation scholars. This study investigates the role of ideology in ... see more
Abubakar Mohammed Sani,Mani Maninangai,Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya
This essay explores and analysis the condition of female characters in Mongo Beti’s novel, The Poor Christ of Bomba(1971). The paper argues that women in the novel’s settings are being oppressed and unjustly maltreated by both colonialists, spearheaded by... see more
Seyyed Ali Kazemi,Leila Zarei
In order to communicate effectively, EFL learners require considering a variety of linguistic, contextual, cultural, and interactional aspects of complex communicative process of English learning along with receiving appropriate tasks. The tasks of speaki... see more
Manoochehr Jafarigohar,Fatemeh Hemmati,Hassan Soleimani,Mehri Jalali
The present study examined the facilitative effects of three types of input-based (explicit and implicit) instruction on the intake and acquisition of the English embedded questions. The participants were 105 Iranian EFL learners from four intact classes ... see more
Mehdi Solhi Andarab
In this study, at the outset, the effect of spatial intelligence-based instruction on learning pictorial idioms in an EFL context was investigated. Then, an attempt was made to find the possible difference between male and female learners' spatial intelli... see more
Asghar Salimi,Maryam Valizadeh
To date, conflict exists in the literature on whether or not and how teachers should react to EFL learners' written grammar errors. Coded versus uncoded corrective feedback has been one of the rarely explored areas of investigation in SLA. To shed light o... see more
Mohammad Hamad Al-khresheh
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Berna Köseoglu
Considering the rise of detective fiction in the twentieth century, it is clear that Agatha Christie plays a very important role in the development of detective novels. As a female author, she achieves producing distinctive works and creating remarkable s... see more
Alieyh Alsadat Jafari,Shahram Kiaei
Marsha Norman’s ‘Night, Mother (1983), is a great American play with psychological basis and it is considered as a feminist play. The present paper investigates it in the light of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytical theories which serve as a methodology in p... see more
Abdorreza Tahriri,Maryam Danaye Tous,Solmaz MovahedFar
The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of digital storytelling (DST) on EFL learners' oracy skills and their motivation towards the use of DST instruction. Thirty intermediate EFL learners were selected based on their performance on an ... see more
Yang Jing
Translation is regarded as a kind of transplantation of culture and the role of a translator plays is no other than a bridge between two different cultures. It becomes an important mission for the translator to deal with exotic cultural elements appropria... see more
Nasimeh Nouhi,Seyyed Ayatollah Razmjoo
The present article tries to come up with a model of teacher autonomy in Iran. The study uses grounded theory approach to develop a model out of the data collected. The participants of this study are 20 experienced language teachers who in Iran public sch... see more
Shahram Jamali Nesari,Elahe Kamari
The aim of this study was to examine the phonological errors made by dyslexics and non-dyslexic children in Persian orthography which is transcribed with two distinct spelling: words spelled with long vowels (transparent) and words spelled with short vowe... see more
Tayebeh Nowrouzi,Soheila Faghfori
A Raisin in the Sun is the story that examines the problem of identity and lack of a true self consciousness among the members of an African American family. In this work, Hansberry is mainly referring to the psychological state in which African Americans... see more
Javad Azodi,Bahloul Salmani
Translation has always undergone the impact of various metalinguistic factors which impose their impact during the process of translation and rendering its final linguistic product. News stories or better to say political discourses are among those lingui... see more
Miao Haiyan
This paper investigates age of acquisition (AoA) effects and the acquisition of delexicalized verbs and collocations in Chinese EFL learners, and explores the underlying reasons from the connectionist model for these learners’ acquisition characteristics.... see more
Emad A. Alghamdi
Undeniably mass media have become the primary source of information and communication for the majority of, if not all, members of modern societies. The nature of the information thus communicated and the manner in which it is dispensed through media certa... see more
Badia Hakim
Despite the recognition of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) in English language learning classes in different contexts, its successful implementation in EFL contexts has attracted insufficient attention. As an offshoot of communicative language teachin... see more
Masoud Yazdani Moghadam,Neda Sadat Sajadi Rad
This paper reports a study investigating the role of negotiated assessment of metacognitive listening strategies in enhancing listening comprehension. To this aim, 60 Iranian EFL learners at intermediate level of language proficiency were assigned to an e... see more