Volume 2, Number 10, October 2012

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

Strategy-based Peer Assistance in EFL Writing: An Alternative to Traditional Peer Correction

Abdulmoneim Mahmoud

 

A Study of Taiwanese EFL Learners¨ Syntactic Transfer in Verb Transitivity

Hui-chuan Wang

 

Perceptions of Iranian English Language Teachers towards the Use of Discourse Markers in the EFL Classroom

Seyed Ali Rezvani Kalajahi and Ain Nadzimah Abdullah

 

Language and Sex: The Relationship of Language to Behavior

Basel Al-Sheikh Hussein

 

`Defending a Thesis¨: Pragmatic Acts in Contemporary Christian Apologetics

Onwu Inya

 

Language Raising, Empowerment and Development: The Case of Shona Language at Great Zimbabwe University

Mickson Mazuruse and Edgar Nhira Mberi

 

Recent Development of Wiki Applications in Collaborative Writing

Shokoufeh Ansarimoghaddam, Bee Hoon Tan, Mei Fung Yong, and Zalina Mohd Kasim

 

The Effect of Advance Organizers on Enhancing the Reading Comprehension of Iranian EFL Learners

Rezvan Davaei and Mohammad Reza Talebinezhad

 

Reciprocal Teaching Strategies and Their Impacts on English Reading Comprehension

Mohammad Reza Ahmadi and Abbas Pourhossein Gilakjani

 

Emotional Intelligence and Its Relationship with English Teaching Effectiveness

Ebrahim Khodadady

 

An Analysis of Social Proverbs from the Perspective of Cultural Semiotics

Wen Zhao

 

On the Effect of Task-based Language Teaching on the Pragmatic Competence (Illocutionary Force) of the Iranian Male and Female Students

Iraj Noroozi

 

Lexical Approach and Its Application in College English Classes

Runjiang Xu, Zan Mao, and Yan Liu

 

Learners' Beliefs about English Language Learning: Examining the Impact of English Proficiency Level on the Motivation of Students among Non-English Major EFL Students

Hadiseh Bagherzadeh and Zeinab Azizi

 

The Politics of Negotiation: Moll Flanders and Defoe¨s Ethic Codification

Li Wang

 

An Investigation into Setting Head Parameters in English as a Head-initial Language from the Minimalist Perspective

Zeinolabedin Rahmani and Seyed Jalal Abdolmanafi (Rokni)

 

Cognitive Interpretation of Chinese Gendered Discourse Pattern

Wenhua Hu

 

A Study of Language Learning Strategies Used by EFL Learners in Iran: Exploring Proficiency Effect on English Language Learning Strategies

Maryam Khosravi

 

Strategies on Translation of English Puns

Ying Wu and Qi Pan

 

Investigating Frequency and Distribution of Transition Markers in English and Persian Research Articles in Applied Linguistics: Focusing on Their Introduction Sections

Leila Bahrami

 

A Study of College English Classroom Discourse

Xiaoqing Jiang

 

Correct or Incorrect Language: A Case of Iranian EFL Teachers

Giti Mousapour Negari

 

Analysis of Lexical Repetition!Taking a News Discourse as an Example

Lili Zhan

 

An Analytical Study of Translation of Stream of Consciousness in the Novel The Sound and the Fury and Its Two Persian Translations by Sholevar and Hosseini: A Hallidayan Perspective

Mohammad Reza Talebinezhad and Pooria Alirezazadeh

 

A Comparison of Cultural Connotations between Chinese and English Animal Words

Na Li and Yan Liu

 

The Linguistic Representation of Iranian and Western Actors of Iran¨s Nuclear Program in International Media: A CDA Study

Reza Kheirabadi and Sayyed Behnam Alavi Moghaddam

 

A Brief Introduction of Skopos Theory

Xiaoyan Du

 

Evaluation of General English Coursebooks in Iranian Universities: A Critical Thinking Perspective

Maryam Azizi and Mohammad Reza Talebinejad

 

A Study on the Teaching Methods of Improving Students' Oral English

Xiaoqing Qian

 

Exploring the Textual Variations of Metaphors in Terms of Rank Dimension and Their Discoursal Values across Different Text-types

Abbassi Bonabi Mina and Hemmati Fatemeh

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