Volume 4, Number 6, November 2013

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REGULAR PAPERS

Teaching Requests to L2 Learners of Spanish

Bradley D. Langer

 

Arab Practicum Guides Code-switch to Hebrew: Attitudes, Factors and Reasons

Tareq Mitaib Murad

 

Such a Nice Gesture: Paired Spanish Interaction in Oral Test Discourse

Ana Maria Ducasse

 

Is Language Proficiency Taken Care of at Higher Education Level? Need for Self Efficacy of Post Graduate Students

H. Jeraltin Vency and E. Ramganesh

 

Absenteeism and Language Learning: Does Missing Class Matter?

Rachel E. Fay, Ra¨²l Villafañe Aguirre, and Philip W. Gash

 

Handling of Morpho-syntactic Learners Errors in Tanzanian English Language Classrooms

Rafiki Yohana Sebonde and John Misana Biseko

 

Impact of Studying Foreign Language Preparation Class on Academic Achievement in Turkish Public and Private Selective Schools

Mustafa Bahar

 

A National Language Policy for Zimbabwe in the Twenty-first Century: Myth or Reality?

Raphael Nhongo

 

An Ideal Model to Measure Humorousness: 1+1 Two Factor Formulae

Wanfang Zhang

 

On the Theory of Multiple Feature-checking: Arabic Verbs of Speech and Communication

Sabri S. Alshboul, Maisoun I. Abu-Joudeh, and Nazmi T. Al-Shalabi

 

A Study of Interpreting Skills from the Perspective of Interpreting Process

Jing Ma

 

The Effect of Extensive Reading on Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Motivation for Speaking

Ramin Rahmany, Abbas Ali Zarei, and Sohaila Gilak

 

A Study of Appraisal in Chinese Academic Book Reviews

Dongmei Wang and Xuehua An

 

The Study of Written Errors of EFL Pre-university Learners

Ali Akbar Khansir and Hajar Shahhoseiny

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Visual Images Interpretive Strategies in Multimodal Texts

Jing Liu

 

Evaluating an Integrated EFL Teaching Methodology in Saudi Universities: A Longitudinal Study

Mohamed Amin Mekheimer and Hamad Shabieb Aldosari

 

Research on Chinese College English Teachers¡¯ Classroom Code-switching: Beliefs and Attitudes

Xiaoli Cheng

 

Program Evaluation on General English Course: A Case Study at Tabriz University

Zohre Mohamadi

 

Negative Transfer of Chinese Sentence Patterns on Students¡¯ English Writing

Fushan Sun

 

Syllabic Structure of Sistani Dialect (Rule-based Approach)

Habibollah Mashhady and Mansooreh Delarami Far

 

Interpersonal Metaphor in Legal Discourse: Modality in Cross-examinations

Jiezhen Dong

 

Reader's Empire: The Reader Is the Main Focus in Receptor Theory (Receiving Beauty) and Communication Code with Literature Text

Abeer Obeid Irhail Al Shbiel

 

Speech Community and SLA

Changjuan Zhan

 

Difference(s) between Male and Female Speakers of Turkish Regarding Politeness Norms

Taher Alavi, Siamak Moradi, and Mohammad Shahin Taggaddomi

 

Indeterminacy in Postmodern Fiction

Li Ma

 

Ideological or International Move? A Critical Discourse Analysis toward the Representation of Iran Sanctions in Western Printed Media

Kazem Youssefi, Alireza Baghban Kanani, and Amir Shojaei

 

An Eye for an ¡°I¡± -- An Insight into Emerson¡¯s Thought of Self-reliance

Haijing Liang

 

An Investigation of Tertiary EFL Teachers¡¯ Problems in Their In-service Professional Development

Junyi Meng and Songphorn Tajaroensuk

 

Professional Learning Community and College English Teachers¡¯ Professional Development

Ying Zhao

 

The Effectiveness of Dictogloss in Developing General Writing Skill of Iranian Intermediate EFL learners

Gholam-Reza Abbasian and Mahsa Mohammadi

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