27 articles in this issue
Omid Rezaei,Hossein Barati,Manijeh Youhanaee
This study investigated the effect of content familiarity and test format on Iranian English learners. The participants of this were advanced students studying at different language institutes in Isfahan, Iran. To sample the subjects of this study, the la... see more
Nur Sakinah Thomas,Seyedehhava Mousavy,Jayakaran Mukundan,Vahid Nimehchisalem
This study investigated the relationship between Burnout and Trait Emotional Intelligence (TEI) among 30 secondary school teachers in Malaysia. The participants were administered the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educator's Survey (MBI-ES) which breaks burnou... see more
Seyedehhava Mousavy,Nur Sakinah Thomas,Jayakaran Mukundan,Vahid Nimehchisalem
Burnout is a serious psychological syndrome that can affect not only an individual’s well-being, but also the functioning of whole organisations, such as schools. It is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and decreased personal accom... see more
Sara Zarisfizadeh
Job satisfaction is very essential to the continuing growth of educational systems around the world and actually nowadays teachers have a very crucial role in the success or failure of each educational system. The present study investigated different job ... see more
Mohammad Khatib,Hossein Askari
The study aimed to investigate if teaching simple (not simplified) literary texts in university classes as their General English course-book can affect students’ attitudes toward their L2. In view of this, a study was designed and conducted at Safashahr A... see more
Mahboobeh Jamshidirad,Jayakaran Mukundan,Vahid Nimehchisalem
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of gender on the three burnout dimensions; emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and personal accomplishment (PA) among English language teachers in Malaysia. This study was a quantitativ... see more
Karim Sadeghi,Zahra Mosalli
Based on Robinson’s (2003) Cognition Hypothesis and Skehan’s (1998) Limited Attentional Capacity Model, this study explored the effect of task complexity on the fluency and lexical complexity of 60 university EFL students’ argumentative writing. Task comp... see more
Nese Aysin Siyli,Hüseyin Kafes
It is widely acknowledged that one of the most serious problems students of English as a foreign language face is their deprivation of practicing the language outside the classroom. Generally, the classroom is the sole environment where they can practice ... see more
Parisa Hazrativand
Researchers suggest that language learners taught with the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach tend to have trouble acquiring semantically less salient grammatical forms. This study describes an experiment in input enhancement in general, and s... see more
Saeed Khazaie,Mohsen Jannejad,Zahra Ahmadpour Kasgari
Parallel with the rapid growth of wireless technology and potentials of mobile learning for language teaching/learning, employing mobile devices in language learning seems indispensable. To this end, designing learning materials suitable for different typ... see more
Seyed Mohammad Jafari,Nasrin Shokrpour
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the reading strategies of Iranian ESP students when they read authentic expository texts in English. To this end, 81 male/female university sophomore students studying environmental health, occupational ... see more
Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh,Julie Chuah Suan Choo
Proficiency in English language skills among graduates that create advantages for the organization is preferred by prospective employers as one of the main criteria for employability. This article provides an overview of undergraduates in higher edu... see more
Farshid Nowrouzi Roshnavand,Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
Born with the inception of the slave trade, interracial mixing has always been a moot point throughout the history of the United States. In America’s racist climate, the mulatto offspring of every interracial relationship was deemed by the dominant white ... see more
Bahar Mehrabi,Parvin Ghasemi,Mehdi Abbasi
Sam Shepard has gained a reputation as one of America's foremost living playwrights. In over forty plays, Shepard has broken down traditional notions of dramaturgy in combining both modernist notions of the absurd and familiar icons from the American cult... see more
Sima Farshid,Mohsen Movahhedi Zad
This paper intends to expound Saul Bellow’s response to Nietzsche’s ideas on nihilism. The latter contends that the life-denying morality of Christianity has ultimately resulted in modern nihilism to solve which he propounds “active nihilism”. While “pass... see more
Jonas Egbudu Akung
This paper seeks to explore the New Historicist dimensions in the Nigerian novel with a focus on Helon Habila’s Measuring Time. The Nigerian history as seen by Habila has not validated many assumptions and needs to be revised .This revision of history by ... see more
Abbas Bagherian
The present study was carried out to scrutinize the possibility and extent of transfer at the level of concepts in parity and internal content based on Jarvis’ (2007) framework among Iranian EFL learners having the following in focus: concepts in Pe... see more
Javad Javadi,Shahrokh Jahandar,Morteza Khodabandehlou
The current study aims to explore the relationship between Iranian EFL learners’ beliefs about foreign language learning and their writing ability. An additional aim is to discover whether there is a significant effect of gender differences’ learning beli... see more
Mahzad Mardiha
The main objective of the present study is to investigate the impact of gender as well as age on the choice of forms of address in Persian. The hypothesis is that variation in the forms of address is related not only to gender of the interlocutors but als... see more
Abbas Ali Zarei
To investigate the effects of two code mixing conventions on L2 vocabulary recognition and recall, 87 female Iranian lower intermediate EFL learners were divided into three groups. One group received vocabulary instruction through standard code mixing in ... see more
Hamid Farahmandian,Shima Ehsaninia
African Literature in recent years especially after the independence from colonialism obtained a very gigantic position in the world literature and caused manifold critics to center their look on it. Most of the African writers have done their best to ind... see more
Seyed Yasin Yazdi Amirkhiz,Kamariah Abu Bakar,Roselan Baki,Arshad Abd Samad,Karim Hajhashemi
The aim of this paper is to review the underlying concepts, theoretical background, the existing definitions, various forms of collaborative writing normally used in educational settings as well as some sample studies carried out in different contexts. Th... see more
Mostafa Sedaghat Rostami
This study aimed at investigating whether the language of the Catcher in the Rye was conveyed in its Persian translations or not. To do so, first the language of this story (i.e. the linguistic features) was described: a description of the language of thi... see more
Masoud Khalili Sabet,Hamed Mahsefat
Listening is one of the most pivotal skills, though; it is unjustly neglected throughout the literature. It was previously considered as passive skill but now those myths have been demystified. Therefore seeking the innovative trends for teaching and deve... see more
Azhaar Ambu Saidi,Rahma Al-Mahrooqi
Gender’s influence on education, especially on foreign language learning, cannot be denied. The current study investigates the effect of gender on English language learning among Omani higher education students. The results indicate that there are differe... see more
Hajar Abbasi Narinabad
This project aims to explore representation of narratology based on some recent postmodern theories backed up by the ideas of some postmodern discourses including Roland Barthes, Jean-François Lyotard, Julia Kristeva and William James with an especial foc... see more
This project aims at providing a detailed analysis of the major features of the theory of postmodern narrative and at going through the novel The Hours by the American writer Michael Cunningham concentrating on some postmodern narrative techniques. To do ... see more