Volume 3, Number 6, November 2012

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REGULAR PAPERS

Multi-competence at the Discourse Level: A Comparison of Persuasive Essays by Chinese College and High School EFL Students

Yingqin Liu and William Carney

 

Is English Our Lingua Franca or the Native Speaker¡¯s Property? The Native Speaker Orientation among Middle School Students in Japan

Akihiro Saito

 

The Competence of Greek High School Students at the End of Compulsory Education in Language Use

Konstandinos P. Garavelas

 

Using Internet Resources in Teaching English Subsystems: An Autonomous Approach

Mariusz Kruk

 

EFL Teaching and Reform in China¡¯s Tertiary Education

Zengtao Zhao

 

The Awareness of the English Word-formation Mechanisms is a Necessity to Make an Autonomous L2 Learner in EFL Context

Yousef Tahaineh

 

The Impact of Using Story Maps as Graphic Organizers on Development of Vocabulary Learning of EFL Learners

Mohammad Khatib and Laleh Fakhraee Faruji

 

Fostering Critical Thinking through Socrates' Questioning in Iranian Language Institutes

Mansoor Fahim and Mohammad B. Bagheri

 

Evaluative Criteria of an English Language Textbook Evaluation Checklist

Jayakaran Mukundan and Vahid Nimehchisalem

 

Enhancing Students¡¯ Use of Cohesive Devices: Impacts of PowerPoint Presentations on EFL Academic Writing

Soraya Rajabi and Saeed Ketabi

 

Task-type and Listening Ability of Iranian Male Learners

Muhammad Reza Nasirian

 

A Semiotic-based Approach as an Effective Tool for Teaching Verbal and Non-verbal Aspects of Language

Ibrahim Mohammad Abushihab

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Towards an Understanding of Ecological Challenges of Second Language Teaching: A Critical Review

Masoud Mahmoodzadeh

 

The Relationship between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Self-efficacy among Iranian EFL Teachers

Jahanbakhsh Nikoopour, Mohammad Amini Farsani, Mohammad Tajbakhsh, and Seyedeh Hoda Sadat Kiyaie

 

The Flow of Information in English and Persian Academic Texts

Mohsen Khedri and Seyed Foad Ebrahimi

 

The Effect of Teaching Reading Strategies Explicitly on Students¡¯ Understanding of Cohesion in Reading

Ali Mobalegh and Mohammad Saljooghian

 

A Contrastive Study of Hedging in Environmental Sciences Research Articles

Alireza Bonyadi, Javad Gholami, and Sina Nasiri

 

An Accent-Plus Lesson for an English Phonetics Class: Integrating Indian English into Contrastive Analysis

James H. Yang

 

Higher Task-induced Involvement Load Enhances Students' EFL Vocabulary Learning

Mohammad Reza Ghorbani and Maryam Rahmandoost

 

A Study on the Impact of Using Multimedia to Improve the Quality of English Language Teaching

Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani

 

A Study of Self-repair Markers in Conversation by Chinese English Learners

Lihong Quan and Yanmei Zheng

 

A Comparative Study of Greeting Forms Common among Native Male and Female Speakers of Persian

Salman Dezhara, Omid Rezaei, Sajad Davoudi, and Reza Soltani Kafrani

 

The Realization of Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (MI) Theory in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

Parviz Maftoon and Saeid Najafi Sarem

 

Empirical Study on the Effects of Noticing in EFL

Weiwei Pan

 

Translation of Ellipsis as a Stylistic Feature: Hemingway¡¯s The Old Man and the Sea and Its Persian Translations

Arezou Nezam and Hossein Pirnajmuddin

 

ESP Vocabulary Instruction:  Investigating the Effect of Using a Game Oriented Teaching Method for Learners of English for Nursing

Parisa Riahipour and Zeinab Saba

 

The Assessment of the Translation of Chang Hen Ge on the Basis of Textuality

Yanping Zheng and Xuemei Cheng

 

The Analysis of Job Related Stress on Teachers of Junior High Schools and High Schools of Kermanshah Province

Habib Soleimani and Ahmad Moinzadeh

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Motivation and the Choice of Language Learning Strategies

Jahanbakhsh Nikoopour, Shahrzad Salimian, Shadi Salimian, and Mohammad Amini Farsani

 

On the Study of Synesthesia and Synesthetic Metaphor

Xiu Yu

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