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Volume 6 Number 7 Year 2017

40 articles in this issue 

Islam NamazianDost

This study tried to investigate the role of interpersonal meta-discourse markers such as boosters. In order to illuminate this relation, 15 medical and 15 applied linguistics articles were selected randomly from around 50 articles. Therefore, quantitative... see more

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Azhar Alkazwini

To prove the existence of arguments about the exact place that can bear the term ‘coronal’, it would be enough to check the explanatory dictionary’s entry. There are different arguments regarding the exact place of coronal. In this paper, some of the ling... see more

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Fahimeh Talakoob,Mansour Koosha

In the present study, an attempt was made to probe into the probable difference between Iranian intermediate and advanced EFL learners' receptive and productive collocational knowledge. To this end, 60 EFL learners studying at Islamic Azad University, Isf... see more

Pags. 11 - 16  

Rosli Talif,Manimangai Mani,Ida Baizura Bahar,Intisar Mohammed Wagaa

This article examines the implications of history in Salman Rushdie’s Shame (1983), Caryl Phillips’s Foreigners: Three English Lives (2007), and Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic (2013). History plays an important role in discriminating and distinguishing the ... see more

Pags. 17 - 22  

Mina Taheri,Saeed Taki

This study aimed at investigating the effect of dictogloss on EFL learners’ listening comprehension as well as on their use of metacognitive listening strategies with a focus on the effects on male and female learners. To this end, a total number of 50 fe... see more

Pags. 23 - 29  

Theophilus T Mukhuba

Jack Mapanje’s poetry is a true reflection of his society through the use of obscuring devices. These obscuring devices are necessary to ensure that the literary work reaches its intended audience in a totalitarian society. Overall, Jack Mapanje’s poetry ... see more

Pags. 30 - 34  

Ali Mamkhezri,Kamran Pashaee-Fakhri,Parvaneh Aadelzadeh

In the Persian literature “wine” is divided in to three sub-categories:  mystic, true and literary. The true wine is used in texts, where the intention is to show the pleasures of life, whereas in some philosophical and mystic texts such as the story... see more

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Meng Liang

This paper examines in a sociological manner how the heroic identity of Odysseus is constructed in Homer’s Odyssey. The making of Odysseus the hero requires the constant testing and improving of Odysseus's heroic qualities, the existence of a largely loya... see more

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Masood Khalili Sabet,Hamid Reza Babaee Bormanaki

The study reported here was concerned with the issue of reverse engineering of language test items as it relates to the identification of the language constructs underlying listening tasks of LELTS test. In this regard, the IELTS examination papers, from ... see more

Pags. 49 - 64  

Yichao Zhang

Halliday holds that all cultures reflect some universal meta-functions in the languages and proposes three such meta-functions: ideational, interpersonal, and textual. This paper employs the transitivity theory in Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistic... see more

Pags. 65 - 72  

Jannat Taftahi,Seyyed mahmoud Mirzaee al-Husayni,Ali Nazari

Discussions regarding Quranic sciences and gaining cognizance of different issues of this field date back to the advent of Islam. Throughout history, this field has witnessed a surge of valuable research that has been and is being conducted on its various... see more

Pags. 73 - 80  

Mohammad Amin Shirkhani

The works of American novelist Paul Auster (1947- ) are uniquely concerned with the mythology of self, metanarrative and the role gender plays in these transactions. In his earliest works, The New York Trilogy (1985-1986) and In the Country of Last Things... see more

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Fazel Asadi Amjad,Bahare Jalali Farahani,Javad Momeni

With the recent inclination toward reading for ideological aspects of his works, Nabokov, who had been pervasively regarded as a mere ingenious aesthete, both during his life and for a long time after his death, has proved more puzzling in interpretation ... see more

Pags. 88 - 96  

Wael Salam,Othman Abualadas

This paper applies trauma theory to Hemingway’s post World War I writing. His work, for example, A Farewell to Arms, shows how soldiers are traumatized by their war experiences, and how they suffer from such aftereffects as flashbacks, nightmares, inabili... see more

Pags. 97 - 102  

Batoul Sabzalipour,Mansour Koosha,Akbar Afghari

The current study investigated the effect of using colloconstructional corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech acts of request among intermediate EFL learners. The fundamental idea was that whether providing students... see more

Pags. 103 - 109  

Muhammad Ishtiaq,Muhammad Sabboor Hussain

This study aims at investigating the teachers’ practices and perceptions in teaching English in Saudi Arabia by viewing their stance on Cooperative Learning (CL) — an innovative teaching approach proposed to raise the language proficiency level of adult E... see more

Pags. 110 - 121  

Farshid Tayari Ashtiani

The goal of this study was to test the effect of typographical features of subtitles including size, color and position on nonnative English viewers’ retention and recall of lyrics in music videos. To do so, the researcher played a simple subtitled music ... see more

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Iftikhar Ahmad,Muhammad Sabboor Hussain,Noor Raha Mohd Radzuan

The study tends to explore the possible reforms to raise the proficiency level of the adult English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. With this end in view, it investigates non-native EFL teachers’ beliefs in relation to adult learners’ beliefs in teach... see more

Pags. 130 - 142  

Ali Akbar Ansarin,Farahman Farrokhi,Hamid Reza Mahboudi

Owing to the importance of computer-assisted reading and considering the prominent role of learners in this respect, the present study investigated: (1) the effects of computer as a supplemental tool to support and improve the Iranian EFL learners’ readin... see more

Pags. 143 - 160  

Zahra Sharifi Feriz,Khalil Motallebzadeh,Ma'ssoumeh Bemani Naeini

The purpose of the present study is to examine home culture attachment construct and its underlying variables among Iranian English as Foreign Language learners as well as their attitudes towards English language learning. Pearson correlation is used with... see more

Pags. 161 - 168  

Dedi Irwansyah,Burhan Nurgiyantoro,Asruddin B. Tou

Reading literary works helps learners grow linguistically, personally, culturally, and spiritually. However, researchers in the field of ESL and EFL have not conducted adequate analysis on the use of literature as a resource particularly in a multi-layere... see more

Pags. 169 - 179  

Farahman Farrokhi,Mina Arghami

One of the important concerns of communicative way of learning is to be able to convey meaning and not just physical words in a language. The study of speech acts could possibly help achieve this. When using speech acts, one should take into consideration... see more

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Tarek A. Alkhaleefah

The debate over the place and role of literature in language classrooms has long intrigued researchers and teachers’ interests over the years. Although there is an overall consensus that the teaching of literature in English language teaching (ELT) classr... see more

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Nuria Edo-Marzá

This pilot study is aimed at describing, analysing and comparing self, peer and teacher quantitative and qualitative assessment (and consequently also perceptions and degree of systematicity when assessing) in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pronu... see more

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Mohammed A. A. Hizabr Alhusami

This comparative study aims to investigate the similarities and differences between the two Arab poets, Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab and Salah Abd al-Sabur from one hand and T. S. Eliot from the other. The study attempts to investigate the attitudes of those poe... see more

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Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani,Narjes Banou Sabouri

One of the useful ways of teaching English pronunciation is the application of pronunciation software. Pronunciation software supplies a personal and stress-free setting for both teachers and learners through which they can have infinite input, exercise a... see more

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Nushrat Azam

This paper seeks to analyze the mediums and effects of voice and silence in the life of a female character of the re-written post-colonial text Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. The analysis shows how a re-written text can give a new meaning to a character an... see more

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Rehan Almegren

This study focuses on comparing the speech acts of native Arabic speakers of Saudi region and English speakers of America, which help depict the impact of the variables involved, namely status, setting, social distance and situation formality. This paper ... see more

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Hossein Khodabakhshzadeh,Hanieh Garmabi,Mehri Bakhtiari Fayendari

The profession as a teacher involves experiencing a number of challenges which naturally lead to emotional tiredness and lack of reward, technically known as burnout (Colomeischi, 2015). The goal of the present study was to investigate the relationship be... see more

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Yuki Itani-Adams,Junko Iwasaki,Satomi Kawaguchi

This paper compares the acquisition of Japanese morphology of two bilingual children who had different types of exposure to Japanese language in Australia: a simultaneous bilingual child who had exposure to both Japanese and English from birth, and a succ... see more

Pags. 268 - 276  

Mansoor S. Almalki

This paper tries to investigate the trends about the use of metaphors in the Saudi EFL classrooms. The proper implementation of metaphors (i.e. instruction, acquisition, and socialization metaphors) by teachers can be a reason for boosting source in the i... see more

Pags. 277 - 285  

Mustafa Ahmad Mohammed

Samuel Beckett, besides writing for the stage, has during his long career written for both radio and TV. He has also written one script entitled Film which was filmed for the New York Film Festival in 1956. All That Fall was written in 1956 and it is the ... see more

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Mutiara Ayu,Chuzaimah Dahlan Diem,Machdalena Vianty

The Global era has had a great impact on the existence of English as a global language which requires students to be good at its every skill. It is believed that students’ English could be enhanced well with the use of certain strategies, one of which is ... see more

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Nasrah Mahmoud Ismaiel

The purpose of the current research is to scrutinize the relationship between metamemory and EFL learners` achievement. The participants were 250 first year university students who were chosen from a large sample of the preparatory year Science and Humani... see more

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Farnoush Bahrami,Heidar Nosratzadeh

By taking notes students could save time for reading all textbooks for their exams or for their representations. Taking notes increases attention of students to read or heard materials, and this increases their comprehension. Thus, the present study is im... see more

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Shakibur Rahman Khan

The article Problems and challenges for the First Generation Learners seeks to explore the important issues and problems encountered by first generation English learners and teachers in the context of learning and teaching in Saudi Arabia. It is assumed t... see more

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SeyedehZahra Nozen,Bahman Amani,Fatemeh Ziyarati

“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice…”. Woolf’s belief has been put to the test... see more

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George Mathew Nalliveettil,Abdullah Mahasneh

English language course materials in EFL contexts are tailored to enhance the proficiency levels of receptive and productive skills of undergraduates.  These course materials are designed in the form of worksheets to fulfil the aims and objectives of... see more

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Renugah Ramanathan,Tan Bee Hoon,Shamala Paramasivam

Ideologies in political discourse have been keen research topics as they provide various views of an issue or event. The prominent aspect of ideology is that it attempts to bridge the political activism to the social world that reflects the authenticity o... see more

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Sina Neissi,Habsah Hussin

Iranian learners at all levels of education (primary, secondary and tertiary) face a number of constraints in their studies due to restriction of educational system, cultures, upbringing and expectations of society. Based on this premise the researchers w... see more

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