30 articles in this issue
Mohammad Mohammadi,Javad Javadi
The present study reports on the latest and newest hot topic in the world, the United States Presidential Election. So, this is the newest attempt to explore and discover interrelation of discourse structures and ideological structures of Donald Trump’s a... see more
SEINO Evangeline Agwa Fomukong
In pragmatics, language is understood in context, taking into consideration the speaker, the addressee, their interaction, background information and the situation of communication. Therefore the speakers make utterances taking account of the context of c... see more
Sepideh Jafari,Simin Jafari,Roghayeh Kiyani Astar
Interpersonal theory developed by Joiner (2005) is based on the assumption that people die by suicide because they can-acquired capability-and because they want to- desire of suicide. Desire to die arises from two specific psychological states: perc... see more
Banu Akcesme
Wuthering Heights can be read as a novel of warfare against women and women-associated spaces to be conquered to prove male superiority, authority and power. This paper aims to discuss how Emily Bronte challenged not only the established Victorian literar... see more
Mohammadhossein Besharati,Golnar Mazdayasna
The current study was an attempt to investigate EFL students’ attitudes regarding team-teaching approach. In addition, it explored to what extent the team-teaching approach was effective in terms of enhancing Electrical Engineering Students' English profi... see more
Omar A. Sheikh Al-Shabab
Vocabulary Profilers (VPrs) are deeply rooted in pedagogical purposes. The current investigation, however, uses the Classic and Compleat VPrs to: 1) determine the distribution and content of vocabulary in an English poetry corpus 2) explain differences in... see more
Ali Akbar Ansarin,Farahman Farrokhi,Hamid Reza Mahboudi,Zohreh Adeli Jam
This paper examines the perceptions of advantages of smart phones and tablets on basic and general English students' language learning, self-sufficiency, and interest using smart phones and tablets at an Iranian university college during one university te... see more
Norasyikin Osman,Mohd Isa Hamzah
Learning with technology or e-learning has been taking place in all areas of education including in learning and teaching of Arabic language. Despite the widespread use of e-learning for Arabic language, in line with the current technological advancements... see more
Fatemeh Soltanpour,Mohammadreza Valizadeh
Considering the issues of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher education, recruitment, and supervision system in Iran, this study investigated the Iranian EFL teachers’ familiarity, involvement with, accessibility to, and their judgments about usef... see more
Chibuzo Onunkwo,Mary J.N. Okolie,Chigbu Andrew Chigbu,Ginikachi Christian Uzoma
Richard Wright’s Native Son has often been read as a socially-oriented text, seemingly neglecting its existence as a literary construct. Such readings gear towards identifying the text with such societal ills as racism and environmental impact o... see more
Yalda Mansouri,Farid Parvaneh
Oates works have been analyzed in the light of violent literature all around the world; however, they are not scruntizied on account of Žižek’s outstanding ideas. Carrying out extensive research, the researcher highlights the positive outcome of Žiž... see more
MHD Noor Al-Abbood
Although critics commenting on Keats’s “La Belle Dame sans Merci” are divided on whether or not the poem is autobiographical, the genre of the poem as a “ballad” tends to be given short shrift in their critical interpretations, and its role in determining... see more
Saeid Raoofi,Jalal Gharibi,Hassan Gharibi
Writing is an essential skill for academic development within any disciplinary area. Despite the rapidly growing body of research on the various aspects of second language writing, research on writing self-efficacy remains scarce. This study investigated ... see more
Asjad Ahmed Saeed Balla
This Paper investigates the relation between studying in Self-Access centres and learners’ confidence, motivation and autonomous learning. The study based on three questions: (a) To what extent autonomous learning motivates students/users of SAC? (b) Is t... see more
Reza Babagolzadeh,Mahdi Shafieyan
George Herbert’s retreat from a political path and a turn towards a religious route has created a perception that the poet and priest had separated himself from politics. His magnum opus, The Temple, corroborates such a point of view with it verses coated... see more
Yasir Alotaibi
This article contributes a new analysis of verbal irony to the literature. It presents the main analyses of verbal irony – and the main criticisms of these analyses – found in both older and modern literatures as part of its attempt to build a new account... see more
Mania Nosratinia,Fatemeh Abbasi
The present study attempted to compare the effect of teaching concept mapping in reading on extrovert and introvert English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' Self-Regulation (SR). The participants were 60 female EFL learners at the intermediate level ... see more
Yousef Awad,Mahmoud F. Al-Shetawi
This paper examines how Arab British novelist Jamal Mahjoub appropriates and interpolates Shakespeare’s Othello. Specifically, this paper argues that Mahjoub’s historical novel The Carrier (1998) re-writes Shakespeare’s Othello in a way that enables the n... see more
Esmail Zare-Behtash,Hassan Banaruee
The critical evaluation of systematic planning, development and review practices of instructional materials intend to improve the quality of teaching and learning. This study investigates the objectives of communicative language teaching and curricular co... see more
Xia Yu
The purpose of this investigation is to address the situation that although general ELT (English Language Teaching) literature does not endorse the practice of text recitation (TR), recent literature cautiously recommends it as a teaching tool with clear ... see more
Shiva Grami,Mahmood Hashemian
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of paper and e-dictionaries on Iranian intermediate learners' reading comprehension. To this end, 90 female English Foreign language learners were randomly selected and assigned into 2 experimental ... see more
Darunee Yotimart,Noor Hashima Abd. Aziz
Research have reported that one of the challenges faced by non-native English writers to have their research articles (RAs) accepted by English-medium journals is to fulfill the journals’ expectations in terms of linguistic aspect. In addition, non-native... see more
Elham Zarfsaz,Rogayeh Ahmadi
The present study aimed at exploring the causes and reasons of the EFL learners’ plagiarism. To this end, 150 females and males TEFL students from State and Azad universities in Iran, participated the study. A questionnaire developed by Rezanejad and Reza... see more
Yumiko Yamaguchi,Hiroko Usami
This paper aims to present the results of a learner corpus study on spoken and written narratives by Japanese learners of English using Processability Theory (PT) (Pienemann, 1998). PT assumes that there is a universal hierarchy of second language (L2) de... see more
Hossein Sheikhzadeh,Abdolghafour Bejarzehi
Landscapes are not simply something objective and unchallenged out there but the work of the mind made by the strata of memory. This paper attempts to show that an ecocritical reading of Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky (1949) helps one in better understa... see more
Markhamah -,Abdul Ngalim,Muhammad Muinudinillah Basri,Atiqa Sabardila
The system of pronoun in Indonesian language and Arabic is diverse. This becomes the main consideration of the emergence of the current study. This comparative-descriptive-qualitative study aims at comparing the Indonesian translation of Quran with its Ar... see more
Masoume Yakhabi,Ahmadreza Lotfi
Some locative verbs enjoy the possibility of appearing in more than one syntactic pattern. There is, however, controversy on whether locative verbs in modern Persian can participate in alternation or not. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the... see more
Sami Al-Khawaldeh,Nisreen N. Al-Khawaldeh,Imad Khawaldeh
Intertextuality appears to be extremely important to better realize the different layers of the intended meaning of texts (Ahmadian and Yazdani, 2013). To the best of the researchers’ knowledge and considering its significance, very few studies were done ... see more
Mohammad Taghi Farvardin,Leila Valipouri
This study probed the relationship between vocabulary knowledge (i.e., size and depth) and listening comprehension of Iranian lower-intermediate EFL learners. To this end, 80 lower-intermediate EFL learners in Ahvaz, Iran, were selected. This study also i... see more
Fareed Hameed Al-Hindawi,Hussein Huwail Ghayadh
This paper discusses one of the criteria of war news values in printed media. The current study concerns itself with only Topicality as the target of scrutiny. It explores this value through the application of a model of analysis based on a pragma-linguis... see more