20 articles in this issue
Chinomso P. Dozie,Emeka J. Otagburuagu
The study sought to explore the conversational English politeness strategies used by Igbo learners of English in Nigeria. Through a purposive sampling process, a total of 3000 copies of questionnaire in the form of Discourse Completion Task (DCT) consisti... see more
Thatsanaphan Phaisannan,Kanjana Charttrakul,Anamai Damnet
This study aims to promote English pre-service teachers’ speaking ability by integrating task-based learning (TBL) and the CEFR (Council of Europe, 2001) in designing an innovative program (the CEFR-TBL). This presentation discusses the results of a... see more
Mehrnoosh Karimi,Elham Nikbakht
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between three teacher-related variables, namely, teaching efficacy, institutional identity and motivational strategy use, with students’ L2 achievement. The study further intended to pinpoint gende... see more
Rouhollah Ghassemi,Zahra Hemmatgosha
In any society there is a link between social-intellectual (ideological) views and discursive structures in media. Therefore, it is possible to discover this relationship by clarifying appropriate discursive remedies in text analysis and eventually determ... see more
Asmaa Alduhaim,Muman Alkhaldy
This article presents an account of the interpreting process and its strategies in warzones, and most importantly during the Arab Spring, specifically in Libya. The data used is divided into two categories, Mummar Algaddafi speech during the Arab Spring, ... see more
Barira Abrejo,Shabana Sartaj,Sadia Memon
Language is a complex phenomenon whether it counts in speaking or writing. Teaching and learning English language is much demanded in today’s globalization era. The increasing need of English language learning has demanded English language teaching around... see more
Fernandes Arung,Zainal Rafli,Ratna Deawanti
This review aims to discuss a new substantive theory generated from a Grounded research that we conducted in 2018 as a concept of ‘getting real way’ in the learning of the foreign languages in the 21st century and the forth. The preferent learning theory,... see more
Kanoknate Worawong,Kanjana Charttrakul,Anamai Damnet
The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ experiences of communicating orally and non-verbally. The participants were forty-four students in their third year of English education at a Thai Rajabhat University. Nine students were purposively se... see more
Husam Mohammed Kareem Al-Khazaali
The aim of the present study is to examine experimentally the influence of using lexical chunks on the achievement of second-year-university students of English in the writing fluency. Lexical chunks, as the composites of form, meaning and function, store... see more
Nazmul Haque,Fahmida Pervin
This paper’s overriding concern is to analyze the moral degradation, spiritual sterility, fragmentation, damaged psyche of humanity, the disillusionment of early twentieth-century post-war modern Europe and of course the path of salvation that are enormou... see more
Mbachaga Desen Jonathan
Issues of security of lives and property flood the news in Nigeria with focus on mayhem, bombings, brutality and mind boggling killings of persons. The fear has gone beyond that of armed robbery gangs to fear of kidnappers, political assassins and insurge... see more
Hend Hamed Ezzeldin
Exile is not a singular phenomenon but rather a varied and a heterogeneous one. The term exile generally denotes displacement which refers to a movement out of one’s original place, be it imposed or by one’s choice. The theme of exile is pervasive in Iris... see more
Abdul Malik Abbasi,Samreen Riaz Ahmed,Alia Farooqi,Stephon John
This study aims to investigate the factors affecting on English speech of undergraduate students at the SMIU, Karachi. The study prospects two aspects as outcomes of the study, one to discover what are the major issues and hindrances and another one to fi... see more
Kesavan Vadakalur Elumalai
The present study states in the field of teaching EFL students in the process of writing correct feedback in the classroom, the study was conducted to explore the influence of feedback on the students’ writing skill and language abilities in grammar. 30 s... see more
Merve Avsaroglu,Ayse Banu Karadag
The aim of this article is to examine the first two books in Jason Goodwin’s detective Yashim series and their Turkish translations in terms of “back translation”. Research subjects are The Janissary Tree (2006) and its Turkish translations by Çigdem Özte... see more
Nfon Rita Gola
This paper looks at globalization, civil societies and their extensions, NGOs, as forces of development within the contemporary global era through the prism of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, The Thing Around Your Neck and Americanah. In ... see more
Golam Rabbani
Toni Morrison, the African American Nobel laureate author, explores the realities where African American women face multiple discriminations in her novel Jazz (1992). This article, following the qualitative method on the bibliographic study, examines the ... see more
Hesham Suleiman Alyousef,Najd Emad Q. Alotaibi
Research on intradisciplinary variations in self-mention marker use in research articles (RAs) in dentistry subdisciplines is lacking. The present study investigates self-mention markers used in each of the seven dentistry subdisciplines (oral sciences, p... see more
Thanaset Chavangklang,Pitchayapa Chavangklang,Sirichai Thiamhuanok,Premkamon Sathitdetkunchorn
The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate the effects of online multimedia-based extensive reading activities on students’ vocabulary size; 2) to investigate the effect of online multimedia-based extensive reading activities on students’ readin... see more
Mona Sabir
This study explores how Arab L2 learners of English acquire mass nouns. The mass/count distinction is a morphosyntactically encoded grammatical distinction. Arabic and English have different morphosyntactic realisations of mass nouns. English mass n... see more