30 articles in this issue
Gibreel Sadeq Alaghbary,Murad Alazzany,Ohood Al-Nakeeb
The closing year of the 1970s saw the publication of two seminal books (Fowler, Hodge, Kress, & Trew, 1979; Kress & Hodge, 1979/1993) heralding a new direction in the investigation of textual ideologies. This methodology, called Critical Linguistics (henc... see more
Ehsan Mehri,Majid Amerian
The introduction of dynamic assessment within sociocultural theory opened a new door toward looking at the relationship between the teaching and assessment. The dialectic relationship between the two processes provides previously unfound information regar... see more
Abid Hayat Khokhar,M. Athar Khurshid,Hafizoah Kassim
This paper presents the stylistic analysis of the invocation part of the Rape of the Locke. The researcher has tried to uncover the mystery of the beauty of the lines of this mock epic. He studied the role of deviation, parallelism, and other factors, to ... see more
Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi,Seyyedeh Mobina Hosseini,Shabnam Norouzi
In many EFL contexts, including language education milieu in Iran, reading fluency is usually taken for granted since language education in public high schools mainly focuses on reading comprehension. Taking the detrimental effect of fluency deficiency in... see more
Maryam Banisaeid,Jianbin Huang
Although self-regulation, derived from educational psychology, is a new topic in the second language learning field, language learning strategy was the main focus of many studies in the last two decades. Also, among the L2 individual differences, motivati... see more
S. Bharadwaj
In the early poetry, 18 Poems and 25 Poems, Dylan Thomas speaks of his awareness of the artistic heritage and also of his poetic freedom resulting in a poetic force.The Map of Love vindicates, while mapping out the continuous process of exploiting poetic ... see more
Yuan-Chin Chang
James McBride’s memoir The Color of Water provides a rich and nuanced history of the author – a Black American man – and his white mother. Using the theories of Bhabha regarding hybridity, ambivalence and a Third Space between different cultures or indivi... see more
Nassim Golaghaei,Sedigheh Kakolian
The present study endeavors to investigate the impact of visual and etymological treatments on learning idioms among English language learners. Seventy-nine intermediate students at Rooz Academy Language School in Babol were selected from among a total nu... see more
Rania Kabouha,Tariq Elyas
This research paper discusses the concept of constructive alignment theory (Biggs, 1996) with the learning outcomes in teaching of English at a Saudi university. The Saudi context has received no empirical attention in the professional literat... see more
Mahdieh Shafipoor,Farnaz Latif
In spite of the numerous merits of task-based language instruction as claimed by its supporters in the last few decades, task-supported teaching approach as an alternative was introduced. Since then, there have been controversial debates over the superior... see more
Atefeh Elekaei,Sajad Faramarzi,Mansour Koosha
The significance and impact of vocabulary learning in reading comprehension and L2 language learning are apparent to teachers, researchers and language learners. Moreover, glosses are found as one of the most effective strategies regarding vocabulary rete... see more
Abdulmohsen A. Dashti,Rahimah S. Akbar,Hanan A. Taqi
In light of sociolinguist phonological change, the following study investigates the [j] sound in the speech of Kuwaitis as the predominant form and characterizes the sedentary population which is made up of both the indigenous and non-indigenous group; wh... see more
Guizhen Gao,Jixin Cao
In Europe most studies of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) focus on language knowledge and language skills and most studies of CLIL are carried out in primary schools and secondary schools. As for the implementation of CLIL in China, most s... see more
Sepideh Hozhabrossadat
In this article, the writer tries to map the structures of gender based on physical nature. Their Eyes Were Watching God is partly an objection and Hurston's protest to injustices in terms of gender bias toward Afro-American women of the late 19th and ear... see more
Léonard A. Koussouhon,Ashani M. Dossoumou
This article aims at applying some of the principles guiding Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to Helon Habila’s Oil On Water (2011). One of the major principles of Systemic Linguistics is that the exploration of the Transitivity properties (processes, pa... see more
Parivash Esmaeili,Behnoush Akhavan,Fazel Asadi Amjad
Recent advances in the study of emotion in relation to cognition have heightened the need for scrutinizing the way emotion language interacts with cognitive processes such as metaphoric conceptualization. However, relatively few studies have paid attentio... see more
Amir Valadi,Afshin Rezaee,Parisa Kogani Baharvand
Willingness to communicate (WTC), which is defined as the intention to communicate given a choice, continues to establish itself as a determining construct in bringing about success or failure in learning a second language (D?rnyei, 2005, Peng & Woo... see more
Elsadig Mohamed Khalifa Gawi
The present study focuses on the implementation of technological aids in improving foreign language education by investigating the impact of using X. Class Teacher's Program on teaching listening and speaking skills of Al Baha University Students. It aims... see more
Mohammad Amin Hawamdeh,Kais Amer Kadhim
Motivated by the severe criticism the Hilali and Khan (HK) Translation of the Holy Quran has received for its too many parenthetical insertions, this study aimed at linguistically realizing how such added pieces of information could be for necessary cohes... see more
Omar A. S. Al-Shabab,Farida H. Baka
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Saeed Ketabi,Fateme Saeb
Pronunciation, despite being known as an important component of language learning, has not been awarded due attention within the field of language education. This article is a humble attempt to present an overview of the history of pronunciation teaching.... see more
Hessam Agheshteh
As argued by Poehner (2008), Dynamic Assessment (DA) can substantially improve our understanding of students’ abilities and promote their development at the same time by providing information on both the individuals’ Zone of Actual Development (ZAD) and t... see more
Hassan Soleimani,Mahboubeh Rahmanian
Involvement load hypothesis as a cognitive construct states that tasks with higher involvements yield better results in vocabulary retention. This comparison group designed study examined the immediate and delayed effects of tasks with different involveme... see more
Rashid al-Essa,Sura M. Khrais
This paper aims at studying the aspects of and the reasons behind the poet glorifying his poetry and, consequently, himself. The two examples chosen here are Al-Muttanabi, the famous Abbasid poet and Shakespeare, the Elizabethan poet. The researchers disc... see more
Abdunasir I. A. Sideeg
This research article aims to explore and critically examine six cases in which traces of ideology are explicitly or implicitly involved in the context of translating the Quran into English. It attempts to answer questions pertinent to the nature and effe... see more
Hashem A. Al samadani,Salem S. Ibnian
This study aimed at examining the impact of using the open-ended story technique on improving Saudi university students’ short story writing skills in English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The study addressed the following questions: (1) What are the short... see more
Nadhim Abdulamalek Aldubai
This is an investigation of the assimilation process across word boundaries of the four main dialects of Yemeni Arabic. Twenty native speakers of these dialects have been asked to read the collected data, five from each dialect. The reading of the phrases... see more
Mehdi Granhemat,Ain Nadzimah Abdullah,Chan Swee Heng,Helen Tan
Multilingual individuals, consciously or unconsciously, are often confronted with having to select one linguistic code over another from within their linguistic repertoires. The choice of a proper linguistic code enables effective communication and could ... see more
Parisa Valizadeh,Habib Gowhary,Akbar Azizifar
This paper aimed at investigating speech act of 'request realization patterns' in Ilami Kurdish and Persian languages. It attempts to systematize the various strategies used for the purpose of request from the pragmatic point of view. We focus on the impa... see more
Shirin Pourebrahim,Mozhgan Eyvazi,Saba Mirzaee
The linguistic study of African-American literary texts opens up a wide area of research. Due to this fact this research tries to establish a connection between two areas of study. The first one is Critical Discourse Analysis and the second one focuses on... see more