Volume 2, Number 2, February 2012

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REGULAR PAPERS

Speech Recognition Performance of Adults: A Proposal for a Battery for Telugu

S. B. Rathna Kumar and Panchanan Mohanty

 

Persuasive Discourse in EFL Debate

Maija Metsämäki

 

Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Attitudes Towards the Use of Computer-mediated PowerPoint Presentations

Omid Tabatabaei and Maryam Makaber Bandari

 

Changing the Message from ¡®Don¡¯t¡¯ to ¡®Do¡¯: Awareness-raising Strategies for Responsible Alcohol Use at a South African University

Vivian de Klerk and Charles Young

 

Romanian Second Language Learners of English Requests and Apologies

Hasan Aydin and Christopher Koch

 

Enhancing Reading Comprehension through Short Stories in Iranian EFL Learners

Mohammad Khatib and Atefeh Nasrollahi

 

Chinese and American Refusal Strategy: A Cross-cultural Approach

Yinling Guo

 

Vocabulary Recollection through Games

Luu Trong Tuan

 

On Negative Transfer of the Deep-structure Culture in Sino-American Communication

Xiaohong Wei

 

The Effect of Three Techniques for Teaching English Idioms to Iranian TEFL Undergraduates

Zahra Fotovatnia and Ghazal Khaki

 

The Application of Schema Theory in College English Listening Teaching

Xiaoli Hu

 

A Report on the Mock Interviews Conducted for Students of MCA IV Semester in April 2011 at the ELTC

Aruna Lolla

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Conflict between Self-discovery and Salvation in Mary Rowlandson¡¯s The Sovereignty and Goodness of God

Shuo Cao and Xu Cao

 

Metacognitive Strategies and Logical/ Mathematical Intelligence in EFL Context: Investigating Possible Relationships

Hossein Khani Arani and Sajad Davoudi Mobarakeh

 

The Influence of Metaphor on Sense-impression in English

Shufang Cheng

 

The Sociolinguistic Drawbacks in the English Learning Environment in a Multilingual Society

Che Ann Abdul Ghani, Martins Lucky Ataman, and Angela Folahan Egele

 

On Approach of Interpretation with Explanations in C-E International Communication of China¡¯s Universities

Dan Jiao

 

The Impact of Teachers¡¯ Belief on EFL Writing Instruction

Bita Khanalizadeh and Hamid Allami

 

A Brief Analysis of Culture and Translation

Hui Guo

 

Linguistic Features of Typographic Emoticons in SMS Discourse

Natia Amaghlobeli

 

Universality and Variation of Conceptual Metaphor of Love in Chinese and English

Zitu Lv and Yining Zhang

 

The Effect of "Bilingualism" on Iranian Pre-university Students¡¯ English Grammar Proficiency

Pegah Merrikhi

 

On Frost¡¯s Colorful Imagery with Profound Implication

Qian Chen

 

Pronominal Subject Clitics in Igbo

Ogbonna Anyanwu

 

Praise and Censure to Female, Beauty or Evil¡ªRecognition of Noble Concubine Yang, Classical Beauty of China

Lirong Jiang

 

Analysis of Working Memory and Its Capacity Limit in Visual and Auditory Information

Abbas Pourhossein Gilakjani

 

On the Formation, Replication and Transmission of Strong Memes and their Cognitive Psychological Motivations

Yongmei Jiang

 

Multidisciplinary Curriculum to Teaching English Language in Sudanese Institutions (A Case Study)

Ishraga Bashir Mohammed Al Hassan

 

On the Teaching of English Listening

Lu Yin

 

First Language Acquisition: Psychological Considerations and Epistemology

Davood Mashhadi Heidar

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