Volume 4, Number 5, September 2013

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REGULAR PAPERS

A Metalinguistic Awareness Test for ASL/English Bilingual Deaf Children: The TASLA-R

Adonia K. Smith, Jean F. Andrews, Melissa Ausbrooks, Mary Anne Gentry, and E. Lynn Jacobowitz

 

Vocabulary Knowledge and Speaking Proficiency among Second Language Learners from Novice to Intermediate Levels

Rie Koizumi and Yo In¡¯nami

 

An Evaluation on a Team Teaching by University Students and Lecturers in Australia

Sook Hee (Susan) Lee

 

Perceptions of Oral Errors and Their Corrective Feedback: Teachers vs. Students

Elżbieta Tomczyk

 

Foreign Language Anxiety in Young Learners: How It Relates to Multiple Intelligences, Learner Attitudes, and Perceived Competence

Hui-ju Liu and Ting-han Chen

 

Scientific English in the EFL Classroom: Rethinking Our Pedagogies

Sara Djam¨¤a

 

Language, Culture, Idioms, and Their Relationship with the Foreign Language

Oktay Yağiz and Siros Izadpanah

 

Rationales for Cooperative Tasks in Taiwan Translation Learning

Hui-chuan Wang

 

Mirroring the Effect of Stuffed Classes on the Utility of ESP Classes: Challenges and Students vs. Teachers Attitudes

Giti Karimkhanlouei, Behzad Rahbar, and Behzad Bayat

 

Using Blogs to Facilitate Interactive and Effective Learning:  Perceptions of Pre-service Arabic Teachers

Suad Al Waely and Ibtehal M. Aburezeq

 

A Morphological Reading of Bizhan and Manizheh Based on Vladimir Propp Narrative Theory

Alimorad Ahmadi, Maryam Rezabeigi, Faramarz Piri, and Mandana Rahimi Bajelani

 

Weblog Promotes ESL Learners¡¯ Writing Autonomy

Maryam Foroutan, Nooreen Noordin, and Mohd Sahandri Gani bin Hamzah

 

Slang Translation: A Comparative Study of J. D. Salinger¡¯s ¡°The Catcher in the Rye¡±

Habibollah Mashhady and Maryam Pourgalavi

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Teaching in a Summer School Program as Practicum: Challenges and Implications

Chin-Wen Chien

 

Evaluating Learners¡¯ Communication Strategies within a Synchronous Cyber Environment

Ying-Chuan Wang

 

Readability of Reading Comprehension Texts in Iranian Senior High schools Regarding Students¡¯ Background Knowledge and Interest

Elham Tabatabaei and Mohammad S. Bagheri

 

An Empirical Study on Multimedia-based Social Constructivist Model in English Vocabulary Acquisition

Xiaohong Du

 

Motivational Strategies, Task Effectiveness and Incidental Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary

Parviz Ajideh, Massoud Rahimpour, Davoud Amini, and Farahman Farrokhi

 

An Empirical Research on Chinese-English Bilinguals¡¯ Compliment Responses¡ªA Cross-cultural Perspective

Xuehua An

 

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Discursive (De-) Legitimation Construction of Egyptian Revolution in Persian Media

Bahador Sadeghi and Vahid Jalali

 

Interpretation of Transferred Epithet by Means of Conceptual Integration Theory

Xinmei Wang

 

A Review and Analysis of the Article ¡®An Evaluation of the Testing Effect with Third Grade Students¡¯

Meisam Rahimi, Samira Ghanbaran, and Seyed Mahmood Kazemi

 

A Study on Network and Multimedia Application to Chinese Language Acquisition

Haizhen Mo and Huiqing Dong

 

Minimalism in SLA

Parviz Maftoon and Nima Shakouri

 

A Contrastive Study of Chinese and British English Request Strategies Based on Open Role-play

Xiuping Han

 

The Effects of Task Type Planning on Students¡¯ Essay Writing: A Study of Iranian EFL Learners

Reza Panahi

 

Metaphor and Its Textual Functions

Xiaojing Yin

 

Relationship among Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Self-efficacy in Writing, Attitude towards Writing, Writing Apprehension and Writing Performance

Hoda Sarkhoush

 

Thoughts on College English Testing

Li Sun

 

Writing Attitudes of Iranian EFL Students: A Qualitative Study

Razieh Gholaminejad, Ahmad Moinzadeh, Manijeh Youhanaee, and Hamidreza Ghobadirad

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