Volume 2, Number 1, January 2012

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REGULAR PAPERS

Constraint on Merge: The Roots of the Lexical/Functional Divide

Ludovico Franco

 

An Investigation of Chinese Students¡¯ Learning Styles at an English-medium University in Mainland China

Chili Li

 

A Short Analysis of Insertion in Persian

Masoud Dehghan and Aliyeh Kord-e Zafaranlu Kambuziy

 

A Study of the Social Ecological Wisdom in H.W. Longfellow¡¯s Poetry

Jingcheng Xu and Meifang Nan Gong

 

Measuring Balanced Bilingual Children with Sentence-embedded Word Translation

Shin-Mei Kao and Ferenc J. Pint¨¦r

 

Readability of Texts: State of the Art

Mostafa Zamanian and Pooneh Heydari

 

On the Arbitrary Nature of Linguistic Sign

Manfu Duan

 

The Correlation between General Self-Confidence and Academic Achievement in the Oral Presentation Course

Safaa Mohammad Al-Hebaish

 

A Contrastive Study of L1 and L2 Acquisition

Ahmad Moinzadeh, Salman Dezhara, and Omid Rezaei

 

A Tentative Analysis of English Film Translation Characteristics and Principles

Yan Chang

 

A Review of the History of Translation Studies

Ali Reza Ghanooni

 

Effect of Task Experience on Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Level of Anxiety and Performance on Task-based Tests

Khalil Motallebzadeh, Sepideh Mirzaee, and Purya Baghaei

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Cross-cultural Competence and Its Development

Yanbin Qin

 

Register Variation and the Multi-word Item

Alexandra Uzoaku Esimaje

 

The Effects on Reading Comprehension of Lexical Collocation Instruction, Subject Matter Knowledge, and Cultural Schema

Mansoor Ganji

 

Teaching Multiliteracies: A Research Based on Multimodality in a PPT Presentation

Ji Song

 

The Yutong Bus: Representations of a New Ghanaian Political Metaphor

Eric Opoku Mensah

 

The Analysis of English-Persian Legal Translations Based on Systemic Functional Grammar Approach (SFG)

Ferdows Aghagolzadeh and Faezeh Farazandeh-pour

 

Cooperative Principle in English and Chinese Cultures

Yuanxiu He

 

A Review on IELTS Writing Test, Its Test Results and Inter Rater Reliability

Veeramuthu a/l Veerappan and Tajularipin Sulaiman

 

The Effects of Two Pre-task Activities on Improvement of Iranian EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension

Farahman Farrokhi and Vahideh Modarres

 

Lexical Formation Rules and Chatting Language Online in English

Li Ruan

 

Learning English Conditional Structures

Luu Trong Tuan

 

The Comparative Study on English and Chinese Intonation

Qi Pan

 

The Efficiency of Extensive Reading Project (ERP) in an Iranian EFL Context

Ali Asghar Kargar

 

A Study on the Formalization of English Subjunctive Mood

Xiaowei Guan

 

Testing and Technology: Past, Present and Future

Salma Parhizgar

 

On Interrelations between Language Teaching and Speech Teaching

Xianmei Sun

 

The Issue of Translating Culture: A Literary Case in Focus

Azizollah Dabaghi and Mohammad Bagheri

 

The Influence of Computer Applied Learning Environment on EFL or ESL Education

Rucheng Li

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