Volume 2, Number 12, December 2012

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REGULAR PAPERS

Phonotactic Parameters of Final Consonant Clusters in Iraqi Arabic and Kuwaiti Arabic: Some Contrastive Points

Majid Abdulatif Ibrahim

 

Feminist Stylistics: A Lexico-grammatical Study of the Female Sentence in Austen¡¯s Pride and Prejudice and Hume-Sotomi¡¯s The General¡¯s Wife

Bassey Garvey Ufot

 

Aspects of Cameroon Francophone English (CamFE) Phonology

Gilbert Tagne Safotso

 

Technical Communication in India Trends and Concerns

M. G. Prasuna

 

The Application of Family-based Early Interventions in the YRD, China: A Project Based on Two Case Studies

Jiang Han, Jinjin Lu, and Paul Throssell

 

Minority Language Maintenance: The Case of the Efik Language in South Eastern Nigeria

Offiong Ani Offiong and Mercy I. Ugot

 

The Impact of Using Task-based Writing on EFL Learners¡¯ Writing Performance and Creativity

Hamid Marashi and Lida Dadari

 

Trauma, Memory and History in Kazuo Ishiguro¡¯s Fiction

Deyan Guo

 

Schema Theory and Categorization of Student and Teacher Metaphors

Ebrahim Khodadady, Mostafa Morady Moghaddam, and Hoda Kanan Azar

 

An Analysis of Vagueness in English News from Grice¡¯s Cooperative Principles

Weiwei Pan

 

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Ideology and Control Factors in News Translation

Amir Shojaei and Fardin Laheghi

 

Autonomous Learning in the Context of Computer-based Multimedia College English Teaching and Learning

Nan Chen

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Toward an Empowering Pedagogy: Is There Room for Critical Pedagogy in Educational System of Iran?

Parvin Safari and Mohammad R. Pourhashemi

 

Analysis on the Character of Clyde in An American Tragedy by Tripartite Personality Structure Theory

Jiang Zhu and Yuxiao Bao

 

Psychometrically Based Evaluation of Test Items Constructed by the Faculty and the Test-takers¡¯ Performances on Those Tests at Islamic Azad University, Dezful, Iran, in Winter Semester 2011-2012

Abdolreza Pazhakh and Mohammad Hoseinpour

 

Conceptual Metaphor on Discoursal Organization A Case Study of The Book of Tao and Teh

Xiaojing Yin

 

Too Nervous to Write? The Relationship between Anxiety and EFL Writing

Giti Mousapour Negari and Omid Talebi Rezaabadi

 

On Rhetorical Functions and Structural Patterns of Analogy

Yan Chang

 

Task-based Learning Research and the Cognition Hypothesis: The Case of Task Complexity

Ebrahim Ghorban Mohammadi, Mohammad Hossein Yousefi, and Akbar Afghari

 

Teacher Questions in a Content-based Classroom for EFL Young Learners

Junyi Meng, Tao Zhao, and Athithouthay Chattouphonexay

 

Literary Texts and Direct Speech Representation: Explorations in the Discoursal Values of Direct Quotation as a Textual Strategy

Mina Abbassi Bonabi and Manoochehr Jafarigohar

 

A Study of Principle of Conversation in Advertising Language

Fang Liu

 

A Study of Iranian EFL Learners' Understanding and Production of Politeness in Three Speech Acts: Request, Refusal, and Apology

Davud Kuhi and Mohammad Jadidi

 

Vocabulary Teaching Methods for Beginners and Intermediate Level Students in TCSL

Wenjie Dai

 

Quasi-mysticism in Beckett's Major Plays

Bahee Hadaegh

 

A Study of Visual Poem ¡°in Just-¡± from the Perspective of Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Xinmei Wang

 

Textbook Evaluation: An Investigation into Touchstone Series

Seyede Zahra Hashemi and Amin Borhani

 

Context and Text

Lihong Shen

 

The Death or the Revivals of the Author?

Mohebat Ahmadi

 

Factors Influencing Domestication or Foreignization on the Macro and Micro Levels

Wenfen Yang

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