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Volume 4, issue 4, 2011

Comparing Literacy Instruction within China and the United States pp. 3

Roberta Simnacher Pate, Evan Ortlieb and Earl H. Cheek

The Effect of Computer-Assisted Whole Language Instruction on Taiwanese University Students’ English Learning pp. 10

Pei-ling Wang

The Validation Process of the SILL: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis pp. 21

Gi-Pyo Park

Critical Language Awareness in Pedagogic Context pp. 28

Shamim Ali

A Comparative Study of EFL Teachers’ and Intermediate High School Students’ Perceptions of Written Corrective Feedback on Grammatical Errors pp. 36

Mina Jodaie, Farahman Farrokhi and Masoud Zoghi

The Impact of Concept Mapping on EFL Learners' Critical Thinking Ability pp. 49

Ebrahim Khodadady and Afsaneh Ghanizadeh

Rote Memorization of Vocabulary and Vocabulary Development pp. 61

Weidong Yang and Weiping Dai

Towards a Class-centred Approach to EFL Teaching in the Palestinian Context pp. 65

Adnan I. Abu Ayyash

Native Speakers' Perception of Non - Native English Speech pp. 77

Maysa Jaber and Riyad F. Hussein

The Relationship between Demotivation and EFL Learners’ English Language Proficiency pp. 88

Rou-Jui Sophia Hu

An Investigation of the Possible Effects of Favored Contexts in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition pp. 97

Omid Rezaei and Salman Dezhara

Factors Influencing Pronunciation Accuracy: L1 Negative Transfer, Task Variables and Individual Aptitude pp. 115

Qian Liu

ESP Needs Analysis of Iranian MA Students: A Case Study of the University of Isfahan pp. 121

Fatemeh Moslemi, Ahmad Moinzadeh and Azizollah Dabaghi

Causal Attributions for Failure and the Effect of Gender among Moroccan EFL University Learners pp. 130

Abdelaziz Zohri

Pedagogical Implications on Medical Students’ Linguistic Needs pp. 138

Yanling Hwang

EFL Learner’s Awareness of Stress-Moving vs. Neutral Suffixes pp. 146

Zahra Ghorbani Shemshadsara

Reader Engagement in English and Persian Applied Linguistics Articles pp. 154

Ali Akbar Ansarin and Hassan Tarlani Aliabdi

Does Gender Play a Role in the Assessment of Oral Proficiency? pp. 165

Khalil Motallebzadeh and Shaahin Nematizadeh

A Corpus-based Study of the Misuse of Tenses in the English Composition of Chinese College Students pp. 173

Manfu Duan

Male and Female EFL Learners’ Self-Perceived Strategy Use across Various Educational Levels: A Case Study pp. 181

Abdorreza Tahriri and Hoda Divsar

The Construct Validation of a Questionnaire of Social and Cultural Capital pp. 195

Reza Pishghadam, Mohsen Noghani and Reza Zabihi

An Investigation of Iranian EFL learners’ Use of Politeness Strategies and Power Relations in Disagreement across Different Proficiency Levels pp. 204

Biook Behnam and Masoumeh Niroomand

Managing CMC-based Task through Text-based Dialogue: An Exploratory Study in a Chinese EFL Context pp. 221

Lianfen Yu and Gang Zeng

On the Relation of Locus of Control and L2 Reading and Writing Achievement pp. 234

Behzad Ghonsooly and Majid Elahi Shirvan

Study on Lexical Cohesion in English and Persian Research Articles (A Comparative Study) pp. 245

Fatemeh Mirzapour and Maryam Ahmadi

Exploring Pragmatic Failure into the Writing of Young EFL Learners: A Critical Analysis pp. 254

Peter Yunlin Muir and Zongfang Xu

The Relationship between Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Size of EFL Learners pp. 262

Omid Tabatabaei and Masumeh Yakhabi

Trilingual Literacy for Ethnic Groups in China-A case study of Hani People in Yuanyang County of Yunnan pp. 274

Yuanbing Duan

Effects of Culture and Gender in Comprehension of Speech Acts of Indirect Request pp. 279

Rabe’a Shams and Akbar Afghari

Assessing English Learners’ Knowledge of Semantic Prosody through a Corpus-Driven Design of Semantic Prosody Test pp. 288

Moussa Ahmadian, Hooshang Yazdani and Ali Darabi

Volume 4, issue 3, 2011

Defining a Rule for the Use of Infinitive and Gerund Complements pp. 3

Gregory Conti

A Qualitative Case Study of EFL Students’ Affective Reactions to and Perceptions of Their Teachers’ Written Feedback pp. 14

Omer Mahfoodh and Ambigapathy Pandian

Structuring Cooperative Learning in Teaching English Pronunciation pp. 26

Hsuan-Yu Chen and Jaya Goswami

Motivating Students in the EFL Classroom: A Case Study of Perspectives pp. 33

Rima Bahous, Nahla Bacha and Mona Nabhani

Analyzing the Training and Internship Needs Assessment of Verbal Communication Skills amongst Hotel Practitioners pp. 44

Suzana Rahim and Farina Tazijan

The Fable of Recognition: A Study of Northrop Frye as a Prophet pp. 54

Peng Li

School Performance, Cultural, Social and Personality Factors and Their Relationships with Majoring in Foreign and First Languages pp. 63

Ebrahim Khodadady and Reza Zabihi

Why is Pronunciation So Difficult to Learn? pp. 74

Abbas Gilakjani, Seyedeh Ahmadi and Mohammad Ahmadi

Developing Saudi EFL Students’ Oral Skills: An Integrative Approach pp. 84

Fahad Aljumah

Content-Based Instruction in the Teaching of English for Accounting at Vietnamese College of Finance and Customs pp. 90

Nguyen Ngan

On the Impact of Illustrated Assessment Tool on Paragraph Writing of High School Graduates of Qom, Iran pp. 101

Esmaeil Bagheridoust and Zahra Husseini

Use and Non-use of Humor in Academic ESL Classrooms pp. 111

Ali Ziyaeemehr, Vijay Kumar and Mohd Abdullah

Enhancing Learner Autonomy through Reciprocal Approach to Curriculum Development pp. 120

Mohammad Zohrabi

A Study of Students and Teachers' Preferences and Attitudes towards Correction of Classroom Written Errors in Saudi EFL Context pp. 128

Arafat Hamouda

An Evaluation of English Language Teaching Courseware in Malaysia pp. 142

Jayakaran Mukundan and Vahid Nimehchisalem

An Application of a Questionnaire of Social and Cultural Capital to English Language Learning pp. 151

Reza Pishghadam, Mohsen Noghani and Reza Zabihi

The Use of Verb Noun Collocations in Writing Stories among Iranian EFL Learners pp. 158

Fatemeh Bazzaz and Arshad Samad

The Combined Effect of Instruction and Monitor in Improving Pronunciation of Potential English Teachers pp. 164

Qian Liu and Zun Fu

The Nexus between Iranian EFL Teachers’ self-efficacy, Teaching Experience and Gender pp. 171

Parisa Karimvand

The Effects of the 3-2-1 Reading Strategy on EFL Reading Comprehension pp. 184

Hashem Alsamadani

The Effect of Using Portfolio-based Writing Assessment on Language Learning: The Case of Young Iranian EFL Learners pp. 192

Saeed Taki and Maryam Heidari

The Rationale for Using Computer Mediated Communication to Develop Communicative & Linguistics Competence in Learners pp. 200

Vahid Nowrozi

How Colours are Semantically Construed in the Arabic and English Culture: A Comparative study pp. 206

Amna Hasan, Nabiha Al-Sammerai and Fakhrul Kadir

The Relationship between Iranian EFL High School Students’ Multiple Intelligence Scores and their Use of Learning Strategies pp. 214

Karim Hajhashemi, Fatemeh Ghombavani and Seyed Amirkhiz

Generative Semantics pp. 223

Karim Bagha

Prospective English Language Teachers’ Perceptions of the Target Language and Culture in Relation to their Socioeconomic Status pp. 232

Arda Arikan

Comprehension of Discourse Markers and Reading Comprehension pp. 243

Mohamad Khatib and Mahmood Safari

The Effectiveness of Explicit and Implicit Corrective Feedback on Interlingual and Intralingual Errors: A Case of Error Analysis of Students’ Compositions pp. 251

Mohammad Falhasiri, Mansoor Tavakoli, Fatemeh Hasiri and Ali Mohammadzadeh

Volume 4, issue 2, 2011

Factors Affecting the Implementation of Communicative Language Teaching in Taiwanese College English Classes pp. 3

Ming Chang and Jaya S. Goswami

A Contrastive Study of Grammar Translation Method and Communicative Approach in Teaching English Grammar pp. 13

Shih-Chuan Chang

Investigating the Effect of Using Multiple Sensory Modes of Glossing Vocabulary Items in a Reading Text with Multimedia Annotations pp. 25

Abbas Ali Rezaee and Neda Sharbaf Shoar

Father Figures in the Novels of Jane Austen pp. 35

Adli Odeh

Effective Foreign Language Teaching: a Matter of Iranian Students’ and Teachers’ Beliefs pp. 46

Mahyar Ganjabi

A Study on the Relationship between University Students’ Chinese Writing Proficiency and Their English Writing Proficiency pp. 55

Xiaoyu Huang, Xueying Liang and Effie Dracopoulos

Learners' Performance in Doing Task with and without Teacher’s Presence pp. 66

Massoud Rahimpour and Elham Zakeri

Exploring Students’ Perceptions of ESL Writing pp. 73

Sadiq Abdulwahed Ahmed Ismail

Announcement of Retraction pp. 84

Gavin Yu

Thinking of the Textbook in the ESL/EFL Classroom pp. 91

Wang Wen-Cheng, Lin Chien-Hung and Lee Chung-Chieh

Investigating the Effects of Three Types of Corrective Feedback on the Acquisition of English Wh-question Forms by Iranian EFL Learners pp. 97

Ehsan Rassaei and Ahmad Moinzadeh

Logbook Language Characteristics and Recordation Requirement pp. 107

Gang Huang and Jiang Shen

The Teacher of English: Pedagogic Relevance in Saudi Arabia pp. 112

Intakhab Alam Khan

Professionalize Sudanese Teachers’ Conception of Work through Action Research pp. 121

Ishraga Bashir

An Overview of Corpus Linguistics Studies on Prepositions pp. 125

Norwati Roslim and Jayakaran Mukundan

Moving Towards a More Balanced English Teaching: A Case from Taiwanese EFL Classrooms pp. 132

Jia-Ying Lee

Incorporating the Principles of Critical Pedagogy into a Teacher Efficacy Measure pp. 138

Mahsa Izadinia

An Examination of the Metacognitive Reading Strategies Used by Native Speakers of Arabic When Reading in English and Arabic pp. 151

Negmeldin O. Alsheikh and Kouider Mokhtari

Impact of Self-Correction on Extrovert and Introvert Students in EFL Writing Progress pp. 161

Reza Hajimohammadi and Jayakaran Mukundan

From Face-to-Face to Paired Oral Proficiency Interviews: The Nut is Yet to be Cracked pp. 169

Parviz Birjandi and Marzieh Bagherkazemi

On English Teaching in Maritime Colleges pp. 176

Jiang Shen and Honggui Wang

The Effect of Form versus Meaning-Focused Tasks on the Development of Collocations among Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners pp. 180

Reza Pishghadam, Ebrahim Khodadady and Naeemeh Daliry Rad

Finding a Place for Critical Thinking and Self-voice in College English as a Foreign Language Writing Classrooms pp. 190

Osman Barnawi

Check This One out: Analyzing Slang Usage among Iranian Male and Female Teenagers pp. 198

Sara Shahraki and Abbass Rasekh

Cultural Transfer as an Obstacle for Writing Well in English: The Case of Arabic Speakers Writing in English pp. 206

Ruwaida Rass

Coursebook Development and Evaluation for English for General Purposes Course pp. 213

Mohammad Zohrabi

Culture Differences and English Teaching pp. 223

Jin Wang

The Effects of Portfolio Assessment on Writing of EFL Students pp. 231

Behzad Nezakatgoo

On the Factor Structure of a Reading Comprehension Test pp. 242

Mohammad Salehi

A Model for EFL Materials Development within the Framework of Critical Pedagogy (CP) pp. 250

Nasser Rashidi and Faeze Safari

The Role of Audiovisual Mass Media News in Language Learning pp. 260

Taher CaoBahrani and Tam Sim

Volume 4, issue 1, 2011

The Predictive Evaluation of Language Learning Tasks pp. 3

Zorana Vasiljevic

Use of Syntactic Elaboration Techniques to Enhance Comprehensibility of EST Texts pp. 11

Mohammad Rahimi and Amir Rezaei

Code-switching in Iranian Elementary EFL Classrooms: An Exploratory Investigation pp. 18

Ehsan Rezvani and Abbass Rasekh

The Relationship between Listening Strategies Used by Iranian EFL Freshman University Students and Their Listening Proficiency Levels pp. 26

Farinaz Bidabadi and Hamidah Yamat

Theme-based Group Teaching of College Oral English: Endorsed by Students in Chinese EFL Context pp. 33

Fen Gao

A Contrastive Study on Metadiscourse Elements Used in Humanities vs. Non Humanities across Persian and English pp. 42

Gholam Zarei and Sara Mansoori

Characteristics of English Teachers when Training Global Multi Cultural Students (Sinop Sample) pp. 51

Hakan Usakli

Determining the Evaluative Criteria of an Argumentative Writing Scale pp. 58

Vahid Nimehchisalem and Jayakaran Mukundan

The Effect of Collocation on Meaning Representation of Adjectives such as Big and Large in Translation from Two Languages Used in the Article to English Language Texts pp. 70

Malahat Minaabad

Establishing a Comprehensive English Teaching Pattern Combining the Communicative Teaching Method and the Grammar-Translation Method pp. 76

Na Kong

Modal Auxiliary Verbs in Prescribed Malaysian English Textbooks pp. 79

Jayakaran Mukundan and Laleh Khojasteh

Comparative Effectiveness of Contextual and Structural Method of Teaching Vocabulary pp. 90

Malik Behlol and Mohammad Kaini

Getting to Know L2 Poor Comprehenders pp. 98

Masoud Zoghi, Ramlee Mustapha and Tengku Maasum

Prospect for Cell Phones as Instructional Tools in the EFL Classroom: A Case Study of Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh pp. 105

Roksana Begum

From Intercultural Awareness to Intercultural Empathy pp. 116

Honglin Zhu

The Effects of Planning on Writing Narrative Task Performance with Low and High EFL Proficiency pp. 120

Massoud Rahimpour and Roghayyeh Jahan

Engage Them, Don’t Enrage Them – Student Voices and What It Takes to Participate pp. 128

Rima Aboudan

The Use of Persian in the EFL Classroom–The Case of English Teaching and Learning at Pre-university Level in Iran pp. 135

Leila Mahmoudi and Seyed Amirkhiz

An Evaluation of Classroom Activities and Exercises in ELT Classroom for General Purposes Course pp. 141

Mohammad Zohrabi

A Study on the Application of the Immersion Teaching Model to EFL Learners in Institutions of Higher Learning pp. 152

Yuqin Luan and Xiuzhen Guo

On the Interaction of Test Washback and Teacher Assessment Literacy: The Case of Iranian EFL Secondary School Teachers pp. 156

Razavipour Kiomrs, Riazi Abdolmehdi and Rashidi Naser

A Comparison Study on the Rhetorical Moves of Abstracts in Published Research Articles and Master’s Foreign-language Theses pp. 162

Hongwei Ren and Yuying Li

Towards Transformation: The Power of Phonetic Symbols Embedded in a Multimedia Learning Management System pp. 167

Fei Ping Por and Soon Fook Fong

Contribution to Vocabulary Learning via Mobiles pp. 174

Saeed Khazaie and Saeed Ketabi

Language Characteristics and Written Requirements of the Maritime English Correspondence pp. 185

Jiang Shen and Zhenhua Zhao

The Religious Meaning in Waiting for Godot pp. 197

Jing Wang

Literature in EFL/ESL Classroom pp. 201

Mohammad Khatib, Saeed Rezaei and Ali Derakhshan

Abbreviations in Maritime English pp. 209

Zhirong Yang

The Relationship between Peer Assessment and the Cognition Hypothesis pp. 214

Mona Khabiri, Soroush Sabbaghan and Sahar Sabbaghan

A Descriptive-Comparative Analysis of Apology Strategies: The case of Iranian EFL and Malaysian ESL University Students pp. 224

Atieh Farashaiyan and Seyed Amirkhiz

Iranian Parents’ Resistance to Incompatible Aspects of Western Culture: Implications for ELT Material Development pp. 230

Seyed Ahmad Kasaian and Rangaswamy Subbakrishna

On Vague Reference in College English pp. 240

Jianhe Ma