Volume 2, Number 4, April 2012

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REGULAR PAPERS

After a Summer: Pedagogical Developments in Cross Cultural Settings

Virginia Heslinga

 

The Relationship between Listening and Other Language Skills in International English Language Testing System

Hossein Bozorgian

 

The Speech Continuum Reconsidered: A Case Study of a Speaker of Indian English

James H. Yang

 

Teaching and Assessing Speaking Performance through Analytic Scoring Approach

Luu Trong Tuan

 

The Culture of Othering: An Interrogation of Shakespeare's Handling of Race and Ethnicity in The Merchant of Venice and Othello

Mika Nyoni

 

Do Different Textual Enhancement Formats Have Differential Effects on the Intake of English Subjunctive Mood?

Aliakbar Khomeijani Farahani and Mehdi Sarkhosh

 

An Exploration of the Spoken English Teaching in Beijing English Training Schools

Weihong Li and Xuedong Shi

 

Aspects of Cultural Elements in Prominent English Textbooks for EFL Setting

Soraya Rajabi and Saeed Ketabi

 

The Protection of Endangered Languages in Mainland China

Chun Zhang and Qingchun Ma

 

Automated Versus Human Essay Scoring: A Comparative Study

Somaye Toranj and Dariush Nejad Ansari

 

The Character Cracked: The Waves and Woolf¡¯s New Way of Characterization

Yuan Yuan

 

A Cross-linguistic Study of Prepositions in Persian and English: The Effect of Transfer

Masoud Mahmoodzadeh

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Reconsidering Peter Newmark¡¯s Theory on Literal Translation

Wei Lu and Hong Fang

 

Dynamic Assessment (DA): An Evolution of the Current Trends in Language Testing and Assessment

Parviz Birjandi and Saeid Najafi Sarem

 

Translation Manipulated by Ideology and Poetics¡ªA Case Study of The Jade Mountain

Mei Zhang

 

Capitalism the Inhumane Form: A Lukacsian Comparative Reading of Capitalism in The Mill on the Floss and Ulysses

Ehsan Emami

 

A Corpus-based Analysis of English Suffix ¨Cesque

Wenyu Liu and Haibo Shen

 

Markedness in Writing: A Case of EFL Students

Seyed Foad Ebrahimi and Seyed Jamal Ebrahimi

 

On the Variability of Interlanguage

Lichao Song

 

Rethinking Convenience Sampling: Defining Quality Criteria

Farahman Farrokhi and Asgar Mahmoudi-Hamidabad

 

On the Reconstruction of the Chinese American History in China Men

Minglan Zhang

 

Single and Multiple Sluicing in Persian

Saeedeh Shafiee Nahrkhalaji and Morteza Rashidi Ashjerdi

 

Review of Mediation from the Social Constructivist Perspective and Its Implications for Secondary School EFL Classrooms in China

Xiongyong Cheng and Hua Cheng

 

The Effect of Generic Features of Task on L2 Learners¡¯ Oral Performance

Davud Kuhi, Asghar Salimi, and Ali Shafaei

 

Untranslatability and the Method of Compensation

Jingjing Cui

 

Decolonization in Herman Melville¡¯s Moby Dick

Hajiali Sepahvand

 

Motivating Chinese Students by Fostering Learner Autonomy in Language Learning

Zejun Ma and Ruixue Ma

 

Cognitive, Metacognitive, and Social/Affective Strategies in Listening Comprehension and Their Relationships with Individual Differences

Fateme Serri, Aliakbar Jafarpour Boroujeni, and Akbar Hesabi

 

Allen Ginsberg and China

Min Yu

 

Information Structure in Persian: A Comparison of Systemic Functional Grammar & Role and Reference Grammar

Setareh Majidi and Mohammad Dabirmoghaddam

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