Volume 2, Number 5, September 2011

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

Audio Description, Rhetoric and Multimodality

Cristina Álvarez de Morales

 

Self-correction among Iranian EFL Learners: An Investigation into their Preferences for Corrective Feedback

Reza Pishghadam, Mohammad Reza Hashemi, and Paria Norouz Kermanshahi

 

Current Language Attitudes of Mainland Chinese University Students

Meihua Liu and Shan Zhao

 

A Comparative Study of Intuitive-imitative and Analytic-linguistic Approaches towards Teaching English Vowels to L2 Learners

Mahmood Hashemian and Batool Fadaei

 

A Study of Factors Affecting EFL Learners' English Listening Comprehension and the Strategies for Improvement

Abbas Pourhossein Gilakjani and Mohammad Reza Ahmadi

 

The Effect of Explicit Strategy Instruction on L2 Oral Production of Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners: Focusing on Accuracy, Fluency and Complexity

Mansoor Tavakoli, Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi, and Masood Esteki

 

An Investigation of the Nature and Functions of Exercises in Textbooks for Intensive Reading Course for English Majors

Wei Wu

 

Evaluation of an ESP Textbook for the Students of Sociology

Sasan Baleghizadeh and Amir Hossein Rahimi

 

Excessive Extent in Cognition!A Contrastive Study on Mandarin and English

Hsiu-Ying Liu and Cheng-Chung Kuo

 

Radicalism in Byron¨s Manfred: A Politico-religious Study

Noorbakhsh Hooti and Mahroo Rashidi Rostami

 

Practical Techniques for Cultural-based Language Teaching in the EFL Classroom

Lili Dai

 

Metadiscursive Distinction between Persian and English: An Analysis of Computer Engineering Research Articles

Gholam Reza Zarei and Sara Mansoori

 

Student Teachers¨ Microteaching Experiences in a Preservice English Teacher Education Program

Sadiq Abdulwahed Ahmed Ismail

 

Validation of a Multiple Choice English Vocabulary Test with the Rasch Model

Purya Baghaei and Nazila Amrahi

 

Negative Transfer of Chinese to College Students¨ English Writing

Zhiliang Liu

 

An Investigation of the Relationship between Motivation and Metacognitive Awareness Strategies in Listening Comprehension: The Case of Iranian EFL Learners

Zohreh Kassaian and Momene Ghadiri

 

Independent English Learning through the Internet

Mohammad Nurul Islam

 

How to Improve Pronunciation? An In-depth Contrastive Investigation of Sound-spelling Systems in English and Persian

Seyyed Mohammad Ali soozandehfar and Marzieh Souzandehfar

 

A Survey on the Self-regulation Efficacy in DUT's English Blended Learning Context

Haibo Shen and Wenyu Liu

 

SMS: Tool for L2 Vocabulary Retention and Reading Comprehension Ability

Khalil Motallebzadeh and Razyeh Ganjali

 

Study Habits and Attitudes of Freshmen Students: Implications for Academic Intervention Programs

Luisa Baquiran Aquino

 

The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Burnout among Iranian EFL Teachers

Shahin Vaezi and Nasser Fallah

 

Reanalysis of English Middle Construction and Formation Conditions

Baijing Han and Fen Xue

 

Feedback in ESL Writing: Toward an Interactional Approach

Hamdollah Ravand and Abbas Eslami Rasekh

 

Integrating Multiple Intelligences and Technology into Classroom Instruction to Transform Instructional Practice in Malaysia

Tajularipin Sulaiman, Suriati Sulaiman, and Wei Hui Suan

 

The Relationship between Language Learning Strategies, Language Learning Beliefs, Motivation, and Proficiency: A Study of EFL Learners in Iran

Maedeh Ghavamnia, Zohreh Kassaian, and Azizollah Dabaghi

 

Conversational Implicature in English Listening Comprehension

Haiyan Wang

 

The Relationship between Self-efficacy and Stress among Iranian EFL Teachers

Shahin Vaezi and Nasser Fallah

 

The Role of Metonymy in the Formation of Euphemism in Chinese and English

Yeli Shi and Jinfang Sheng

 

The Effects of Output Task Types on Noticing and Learning of English Past Modals: A Case of Intermediate Persian Adult Learners of English

Afshin Ghari and Ahmad Moinzadeh

 

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