Volume 5, Number 3, May 2014

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REGULAR PAPERS

Individual Differences & Study Abroad: Four Profiles of Oral Proficiency Gain

Sheri L. Anderson

 

Vocabulary in CLIL and in Mainstream Education

Riika Merikivi and Päivi Pietilä

 

ESL/SSL Strategies that Bridge Content and Language in Science: Experiential Learning in an Environmental Education Workshop

Esther V. Garza, Kimberley Kennedy, and Maria G. Arregu¨ªn-Anderson

 

Motivational Differences between Monolinguals and Bilinguals in the Context of English as a Foreign Language: A Case Study on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Rayhang¨¹l Ahåt

 

The Effect of Teaching Different Genres on Listening Comprehension Performance of Iranian EFL Students

Bahador Sadeghi, Mohammad Taghi Hassani, and Hessam Noory

 

Designing a Cognitive Speech Act Taxonomy for Dialogic Teaching and Learning: Explorative Action Games for Conceptual Change Learning

Sebastian Feller

 

An Experimental Study Testifying Syntactic Move

Zhiyi Zhang

 

The Effect of Using Language Games on Vocabulary Retention of Iranian Elementary EFL Learners

Marzieh Taheri

 

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Self-presentation through the Use of Cognitive Processes Associated with We

In¨¨s Ghachem

 

Language Theories and Language Teaching¡ªfrom Traditional Grammar to Functionalism

Yanhua Xia

 

Syntactic and Lexical Simplification: The Impact on EFL Listening Comprehension at Low and High Language Proficiency Levels

Solmaz Shirzadi

 

Translating Scientific Terms

Luu Hoang Mai, Luu Thi Bich Ngoc, and Luu Trong Tuan

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Evidentiality in English Research Articles of Applied Linguistics: From the Perspective of Metadiscourse

Linxiu Yang

 

Postmethod Era and Glocalized Language Curriculum Development: A Fresh Burden on Language Teachers

Mehrshad Ahmadian and Saeedeh Erfan Rad

 

Observed Mental Processing Patterns in Good EFL Listeners and Poor EFL Listeners

Ching-ning Chien and Nicholas Van Heyst

 

The English Film Title Translation Strategies

Xuedong Shi

 

A Comparative Study of the Use of Conjunctions and References in Electronic Mails vs. Paper-based Letters

Nader Assadi Aidinlou and Elnaz Reshadi

 

The Effectiveness of Using the Cooperative Language Learning Approach to Enhance EFL Writing Skills among Saudi University Students

Montasser Mohamed AbdelWahab Mahmoud

 

Translation of Cosmetics Trademarks from the Perspective of Translation Aesthetics

Shuai Wang

 

The Effect of Grammatical Collocation Instruction on Understanding ESP Texts for Undergraduate Computer Engineering Students

Zeinab Abedi and Mohsen Mobaraki

 

An Interlanguage Pragmatic Study on Chinese EFL Learners¡¯ Refusal: Perception and Performance

Ming-Fang Lin

 

Conducting Web-based Formative Assessment Reform for ODL Students: A Case Study

Jingzheng Wang and Yuanbing Duan

 

L2 Teachers' Reasons and Perceptions for Using or Not Using Computer Mediated Communication Tools in Their Classroom

Bahador Sadeghi, Ramin Rahmany, and Eskandar Doosti

 

Using Strategic Writing Techniques for Promoting EFL Writing Skills and Attitudes

Mohamed A. Okasha and Sami A. Hamdi

 

An Empirical Study on the Application of Lexical Chunk to College English Writing

Qian Li

 

A Cross-linguistic Study of English and Persian Prepositions

Seyedeh Sara Jafari

 

EFL Learners¡¯ Cognitive Styles as a Factor in the Development of Metaphoric Competence

Yi-chen Chen, Chia-Yen Lin, and Shuchang Lin

 

A Study on Advertisement Translation Based on the Theory of Eco-translatology

Ting Bo

 

Machine Translation and Skopos Theory: Post-modernist Approach to Interlingual Translation

Biook Behnam, Farhad Azimi, and Peyman Hajarizadeh

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