30 articles in this issue
Mitra Ghabelju
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Pei-ling Wang
This study explores the effect of the automated writing evaluation (AWE) on Taiwanese students writing, and whether student improvement and their perception of the program are related. Instruments included a questionnaire, 735 essays analyzed in Criterion... see more
Fatemeh Mollaei,Mohammad Javad Riasati
No longer are students’ experiences with new languages limited to their textbooks or immediate environment. With the pervasiveness of the internet and the increased awareness of the importance of having technology in a classroom, both teachers and student... see more
Hossein Hashemnezhad,Sanaz Khalili Zangalani
Input Processing (IP) proposed by VanPatten (1993), was innovated based on Krashen’s (1982) input hypothesis. In IP model, principles are stated that describe how learners either miss grammatical markers in the input or how they get them wrong (VanPatten,... see more
Razieyeh Ahmadi
Autonomy regarded challenging in EFL contexts, because of the teacher-fronted learning situation, and as literature suggests there is a need for research in areas related to autonomy to measure students’ perceptions and evaluate their preparation before t... see more
Fatemeh Rezapanah,Hadi Hamidi
In Iran, learning vocabulary has been considered a boring subject for a long time and the traditional way of learning vocabulary by mere copying and remembering has shown to be less than effective. Meanwhile, games are also seen as a time-filling activity... see more
Seyyed Ayatolla Razmjoo,Elyas Barabadi,Ali Arfa
The purpose of this study is to investigate the compliment responses in Persian language. Drawing on Herbert’s (1986), Mile (1994), Rose and Kwai-Fun (2001), and also the data of the current study, 18 types of compliment responses were identified. Based o... see more
Sultan Al-Sharief
Motivation is widely viewed as a key factor to language learning success. This study investigates motivation among English language majors who are unexpectedly considered by most of their teachers as generally not motivated. Using the model proposed by De... see more
Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia,Bamshad Hekmatshoar Tabari
Irish National Drama is very sensitive when it comes to the issue of English Colonization, colonial forces, independence and the matter of post-colonial. In fact, a kind of Irish consciousness is present in all the dramas of this nation and all playwright... see more
Mahshad Jalalpourroodsari,Sarah Catherine Household Ilkhani
This paper examines one of the ways in which narrativity as a complex concept is rooted in almost simple notions which support it at its basic levels. The discussion here would be devoted to the concept of the minimal story (récit minimal) which is define... see more
Parastou Gholami Pasand,Eshrat Bazarmaj Haghi
Writing is one the most important skills in learning a foreign language. The significance of being able to write in a second or foreign language has become clearer nowadays. Accordingly, different approaches to writing such as product approach, process ap... see more
Mansoor Fahim,Sarvenaz Khatib
This study investigated the effect of implicit teaching of critical thinking and its practice on the attitude the participants hold towards the subject matter being taught. For the observation of the practicality of critical thinking in altering students’... see more
Shima Kameli,Roselan Bin Baki
The present study examined the impact of vocabulary knowledge level on reading comprehension performance among EFL language learners. The ultimate intention was to determine the association between levels of vocabulary knowledge and to clarify the relatio... see more
Maryam Khoshbakht,Moussa Ahmadian,Shahrukh Hekmat
Two major works of literature, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and Attar’s The Conference of the Birds, display a number of strikingly similarities, in addition to a number of prominent differences. This paper tries to shed light on similarities a... see more
Xia Yu
Recent empirical research on the role of formulaic language appears to support the assumption that memorized chunks serve as a database for learning of the grammar, a process of what Skehan (1998) call ‘syntacticization’. This paper examines the possibili... see more
Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani
Discourse Analysis (D.A) is a discipline which concerns the study of the relationship between language and the context in which it is used. In other words, Discourse Analysis is a branch of applied linguistics which investigates the study of language in u... see more
HUAI-ZHOU MAO,HUA-YING CHEN
An acoustic study on the elision of schwa [?w?:] of /?/ in English utterances produced by a native speaker of English, a Han Chinese learner of English major, [C] and a Uyghur learner of English majors [U] presented in this paper. With Praat softwar... see more
Mahrukh Baig
This research paper sets out to project an in-depth study of the advertising discourse by applying methodological approaches of Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis to the chosen “advertisements”. It aims at examining the ‘power relations an... see more
Angela Brown
This essay is about Elizabeth Gilbert’s pursuit to find a connection to something greater than herself, for happiness and balance after a life changing event in her life. It is based on her book “Eat and pray Love” is a biography of her encounters, as she... see more
Mohammad Jafar Jabbari
In some speech communities two distinct varieties of one language are used side by side, each of which serving a different range of social functions. One variety, called High, is used only under formal and public circumstances, while the other one, referr... see more
Fatemeh Hemmati,Safoora Bemani
This study aimed at comparing the effects of 'question-answer relationship strategy', 'summarizing', and 'syntactic structure identification training'on the reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. The participants were sixty (34 women and 26 men) i... see more
Rapassak Hetthong,Adisa Teo
Self-efficacy has been broadly studied in recent decades and it has been attested an essential contributor to success in English language learning. However, to date, there have been few studies looking into self-efficacy in EFL writing, and into the stude... see more
Corinne Vong Siu Phern,Mohamad Jafre Zainol Abidin
A majority of Malaysian students only have average English language proficiency, although instructional qualities of the effective English language teacher have by far been expounded by English language experts. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the e... see more
Ya-Chin Tsai
This study investigated two approaches to writing to learn Spanish as a second language. Eight undergraduate students were exposed to task-based language learning and a traditional approach in a counter-balanced manner to learn Spanish verbs from writing ... see more
Abbas Ali Zarei,Atefeh Elekaei
The present study investigates the effect of attitude on the choice of compensation and meta-cognitive strategies of Iranian EFL university students majoring in Teaching English and English Translation. 108 intermediate students from Qazvin and Takestan S... see more
Ahdieh Akbari,Mahmood Azizi,Sima Farshid
Through analyzing the structure of a narrative, the process of character composition with all his or her psychological and physical attributes can be exposed. From the evidence gathered, Martin Amis’s novel uses functional narrative strategies in showing ... see more
Muhammad Aslam Sipra
This paper discusses how English came into contact with Urdu language. Moreover, it outlines factors involved in borrowing from English to Urdu. It substantiates the influence of English on Urdu and demonstrates the conscious and unconscious shift of voca... see more
Siao-cing Guo
Field experience has been considered a vital part of teacher education. Universities have to search for ways for student teachers to gain experience in an authentic teaching environment. Several successful models incorporating service learning have been r... see more
Serkan ERTIN
Yeats’s poetry is quite rich in the imagery of loss, yearning for the glorious and distant past, and a search for identity. The Tower is almost emblematic of the poet’s disillusionment with the modern and of his nostalgic desire for the long-forgotten pas... see more
Ghsoon Reda
In this book, Khalid Al-Seghayer offers a thorough study of the history and status of English language teaching in Saudi Arabia, highlighting deficiencies and suggesting remedies in an attempt to cure the current standards of English education, particular... see more