Volume 3, Number 12, December 2013

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REGULAR PAPERS

The Pragmatic Analysis of Wilde¡¯s Comedy: The Importance of Being Ernest

Janin Jafari

 

The English But and Its Equivalent in Standard Arabic: Universality vs. Locality

Mohammed Nasser Alhuqbani

 

Profiling Formative Assessment Culture in EFL Teacher Education Programs in the Middle East

Khaled M. El ebyary

 

Getting Experience through Experiments and Practice: Learning to Translate Ancient Chinese Poetry

Huifang Tian

 

Preliminary Study on Application of Formative Assessment in College English Writing Class

Yang Liu

 

A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Reports Issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General on Iran¡¯s Nuclear Program during the Last Decade

Biook Behnam and Behzad Mahmoudy

 

Corpus-based Research on Topical Theme Choices in Chinese and Swedish English Learner Writings

Jing Wei

 

A Sociolinguistic Study of American Slang

Yanchun Zhou and Yanhong Fan

 

An Analytical Rubric for Assessing Creativity in Creative Writing

Hamideh Mozaffari

 

Interpretation of Verbal Humor in the Sitcom The Big Bang Theory from the Perspective of Adaptation-relevance Theory

Zejun Ma and Man Jiang

 

Analysis of Ba Marker in Chinese

Lei Liu

 

Differences between Language and Linguistic in the ELT Classroom

Hajar Shahhoseiny

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On the Development of Translation Technology

Ying Wu and Qi Pan

 

How to Cultivate Intercultural Communication Competence of Non-English Major Students

Wei Sun

 

A Comparative Genre Analysis of English Business E-mails Written by Iranians and Native English Speakers

Saeed Mehrpour and Mohaddeseh Mehrzad

 

English Dominance and Its Influence on International Communication

Jiao Xue and Wenjing Zuo

 

Empathy in Language Learning and Its Inspiration to the Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence

Chao Chen

 

EFL Learners¡¯ Language Proficiency and Their Performance on (Non) Literary Inference Demanding Tests

Reza Mokhtari, Natasha Pourdana, and Omid Varzandeh

 

A Study of Overturned Sexual Roles in Lawrence¡¯s Tickets, Please

Hongmei Li

 

Transitivity Analysis of A Rose for Emily

Zijiao Song

 

English Language Teaching (ELT) in Iranian Universities in Brief

Hossein Jamshidi Avanaki and Bahador Sadeghi

 

Wuxing Theory Reflecting in English as Foreign Language Teaching

Bulei Zuo

 

A Sociolinguistic Study of English Taboo Language

Chunming Gao

 

English Language Proficiency as a Predictor of Academic Achievement among Medical Students in Iran

Bahador Sadeghi, Nima Moshtaghi Kashanian, Ataollah Maleki, and Aliakbar Haghdoost

 

Cultural Awareness in Chinese-English Translation

Jinhong Yu

 

Cognitive Mechanism for Metaphor Translation

Fang Wang

 

Strategic Reading Instruction in EFL Contexts

Mahmood Kazemi, Mohsen Hosseini, and Mohammadreza Kohandani

 

A Case Study of Formal Translation of Tang Poetry

Tingshu Hu

 

The Reflections on the General Teaching Strategies in New Standard College English Intensive Reading Classroom

Xin Wang

 

Investigating the Effect of Levels of Proficiency on Iranian Male and Female EFL Learners¡¯ Critical Thinking and Self-efficacy

Shaban Barimani Varandi and Somayeh Mehrali

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