30 articles in this issue
Amir Mahdavi,Sadaf Azimi
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using cognitive strategies namely note- making and underlining, on Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension. In doing so, 60 female fourth year high school EFL learners were selected by means ... see more
Hamoud Yahya Ahmed,Ruzy Suliza Hashim,Zalina Mohd. Lazim,Ravichandran Vengadasamy
The search for identity and the sense of the loss of land seem to be vital aspects in Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry of resistance. His poetry is populated with a continuous but unique cry for the loss of Palestinian identity and land. His poems such as “Identi... see more
Weiwei Pan
Grice’s Cooperative Principle (CP) was originally presented at Harvard University in 1967 as part of the William James lectures. Once established, Cooperative Principle had a widespread impact on a range of scholar activity, from work interested in the na... see more
Parviz Alavinia,Alireza Bonyadi Bonyadi,Fariborz Malehmir Chegini
Though extensive work has been appropriated to probing different perspectives of task-based instruction and its usefulness in pedagogy, it still seems that meager heed has been given to the implications of task complexity for the acquisition and retention... see more
Massoud Rahimpour,Asghar Salimi,Farahman Farrokhi
One of the most controversial issues in applied linguistics over the past two decades concerns the role of conscious and unconscious processes in second language learning. On the other hand, many researchers believe that focusing on the target language sy... see more
Homa Mahna
The purpose of this study is to investigate why certain discourse textual maneuverings are perceived as humorous. The main focus is on the written forms of humor, precisely English jokes or word play which were analyzed in order to see how much humorous e... see more
Zaidan Ali Jassem
The aim of this paper is to extend the application of the lexical root theory to the investigation of select religious terms in English and Arabic to prove their genetic relationship. It criticizes and rejects the claims of the Comparative Historical Meth... see more
Nazila Herischian
This study gains significance as the findings can shed more lights on the postmodern concept of hypertextuality to show that there is no originality in literature and any literary work can be the repetition, continuation, or mixture of previous texts. In ... see more
Mahshad Jalalpourroodsari,Sarah Catherine Household Ilkhani
This article endeavors to make use of the theories presented by French semiotician Algirdas Julien Greimas, in order to demonstrate the main structural exchanges inherent within some of the critical choices and acute performances at the heart of Ibsen’s A... see more
Iyabode Omolara Akewo DANIEL
English language oral teaching and testing has usually been a problematic issue in the Nigerian educational system. This study thus examines the way Continuous Assessment (CA) and examination results compare in the ENG 121 English orals practical class in... see more
Davoud Shafiee,Ali Rahimi
Some studies have shown that transcription of listening sections in EFL situations improves the listening skill dramatically. Some teachers at language institutes have examined this method of listening improvement and at the end of the term discerned the ... see more
Somayeh Karbalaie Safarali,Hadi Hamidi
The current research sought to explore the effectiveness of using videos presenting speakers’ gestures and facial clues on Iranian EFL learners’ listening comprehension proficiency. It was carried out at Ayandeh English Institute among 60 advanced female ... see more
Naemeh Nahavandi,Jayakaran Mukundan
This observational study aimed at examining teacher/learner interactions in task based settings and understanding teachers’ perceptions about using task-based approach in reading comprehension classes. To achieve this end, two general English classes were... see more
Shadi Neimneh
This paper looks at the representation of war in fiction as a catastrophic social event. In studying or teaching the Great War as represented in modernist literature, we have to acknowledge that fiction, and despite its overlap with history or historical ... see more
Darcy Soong
Documentary films may not be as well-organized as traditional textbooks used in classroom, but their potential as teaching materials is enormous and remains largely unexplored. In an oral interpretation class, normally the aim of using documentary films a... see more
Xixiang LOU
A quantitative analysis has been made of 330 Chinese EFL learners’ theses the distribution of the three- to eight-word lexical bundles in them and a comparison has been made of the percentages of the four-word lexical bundles of different structural categ... see more
Hosney M. El-daly
This study argues that if we, really, accept English as a global language, and diversity of cultures, we have to better understand the different composing conventions of different cultures; otherwise, written communication among people of different cultur... see more
Çagri Tugrul Mart
Vocabulary is an indispensable part of a language. It is vitally needed to express meaning. Teaching English vocabulary, an important field in language teaching, is worthy of effort. In order our students to acquire reading, listening, speaking and writin... see more
Elaheh Hamed Mahvelati,Jayakaran Mukundan
Many researchers stress the importance of lexical coherence and emphasize the need for teaching collocations at all levels of language proficiency. Thus, this study was conducted to measure the relative effectiveness of explicit (consciousness-raising app... see more
Leila Anjomshoaa,Samira Golestan,Ali Anjomshoaa
Reading is a very complex process, and readers need to actively engage the text to understand the intended message of the author. Readers, by employing the appropriate reading strategies, can understand texts more efficiently and not waste too much time a... see more
Minoo Alemi,Roja Irandoost
The present work aimed to investigate the frequency of occurrences and proportions of speech acts of complaints and compliments in the four volumes of the course book English Result (Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, and Upper-intermediate), by ... see more
Owoeye Durojaiye Kehinde
“Inbetweeness”, a cardinal source of strength and weakness of the colonized writer, is an indispensable element in postcoloniality, emphasizing its hybrid nature. Leaning on contextual equivocation, to the “periphery”, seems to be an antidote to the certa... see more
Mohsen Ghaffari,Ramin Mohamadi
For almost four decades, ESL/EFL scholars have been trying to find which learning type, contextualized vs. decontextualized, leads to better vocabulary acquisition and retention. In an attempt to solve this problem, this study tried to examine the possibl... see more
Parviz Maftoon,Saeid Najafi Sarem
In recent decades, following the shift of focus from the previous teacher-centered approaches and the emergence of social constructivist theories, learner autonomy has come to be considered as an important goal in the process of second language teaching a... see more
Dan Lu
Nowadays it is believed that language in daily communication rather than literary language should be the target of learning in L2 education. This is mainly because literary language is said to be uncommon in life. This paper reports on a study in which so... see more
Alireza Najafi,Parvin Ghasemi,Farideh Pourgiv
In this paper Beckett’s novel, How It Is, is discussed in the light of the monomyth of quest. It is argued that this novel does not follow the traditional framework of novel and it has an antihero of the twentieth century with a vague and uncertain quest.... see more
Mahnaz Kazemi,Masoud Khalili-Sabet
The present study was an attempt to compare the reading achievement of learners who received the jigsaw method of instruction and that of those students who received the traditional teacher-fronted method of teaching. To achieve the purpose of the study, ... see more
Ma‘ssoumeh Bemani Naeini
This study aimed at investigating and exploring the degree of motivational orientation (i.e. instrumental and integrative motivation) among sixty Iranian TEFL students. A survey research design was used to collect both quantitative and qualitative data, u... see more
Supakorn Phoocharoensil
The present study is aimed at examining the compliment responses (CRs) used by Thai EFL learners. It has been discovered from the discourse completion tasks (DCTs) that the learners’ level of English proficiency seemed to determine how they responded to c... see more
Yassamin Pouriran,Jayakaran Mukundan
This paper reports the findings of an empirical study that explored whether EFL teachers’ use of incidental focus-on-form techniques was influenced by their level of experience. Also, it investigated the distribution of incidental focus on form types at i... see more