Volume 4, Number 2, February 2014

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REGULAR PAPERS

Is Speaking Fluency Strand Necessary for the College Students to Develop in the EFL Class?

Yingjie I. J. Yang

 

Teaching English as a Foreign Language through Literature

Mei-Ling Chen

 

Dystopian Cybernetic Environment in Kurt Vonnegut¡¯s Slaughterhouse-Five

Ruzbeh Babaee, Wan Roselezam Bt Wan Yahya, and Shivani Sivagurunathan

 

Let¡¯s Replace Words with Pictures: The Role of Pictures and Spatial Intelligence in Learning English Idioms

Mehdi Solhi Andarab and Afsar Rouhi

 

The Mood and Modality in the Bible: A Systemic Functional Perspective

Xi Wang

 

Development of Interlanguage Pragmatic Competence: Input- and Output-based Instruction in the Zone of Proximal Development

Majid Nemati and Ali Arabmofrad

 

Efficiency, Feasibility and Desirability of Learner Autonomy Based on Teachers¡¯ and Learners¡¯ Point of Views

Somayeh Shahsavari

 

Martin Eden¡¯s Pursuing Process and Spirit

Rong Hou

 

Students¡¯ Attitude towards Using Cooperative Learning for Teaching Reading Comprehension

Nima Farzaneh and Dariush Nejadansari

 

Collaborative Negotiated Feedback versus Teacher-written Feedback: Impact on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners¡¯ Writing

Amir Marzban and Shahabeddin Mojtahedzadeh Sarjami

 

De-foreignizing a Sound: Computer-assisted Pronunciation Practice in Learning a Foreign Language

Herbert Mushangwe

 

A Short Analysis of Rule-based Linguistic Knowledge

Meisam Rahimi, Manijeh Youhanaee, and Hossein Barati

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The Bewitching Maze of the Past: The Study of Nostalgia in Goli Taraghi¡¯s Short Fiction

Fatemeh Pourjafari

 

An Analysis of The Treatment and Pushing Hands from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication

Jianjun Wang and Chunyan Sun

 

Pragmatic Knowledge Assessment in Listening Sections of IELTS Tests

Hamid Allami and Jahangir Aghajari

 

On Effect of Soft Music on Learning English Language Vocabulary

Mojtaba Moradi and Mostafa Zamanian

 

A Cross-cultural Comparative Analysis of Views on Friendship in Chinese and English Idioms

Qian Zhang and Xiufeng Tian

 

The Effect of Picture Story in Creating Textual Coherence in Narrative Genre

Yadollah Alidoost, Soudabeh Tabatabaei, and Morteza Bakhtiarvand

 

The Effects of Test Formats on the Performances of Iranian EFL Students

Zahra Shahivand, Abbas Paziresh, and Alireza Raeeszadeh

 

Discussions on the University English Teaching Influenced by Traditional Education Mode and the Multimedia Education Mode

Kun Liu

 

A Comparative Study of Iran's TEFL and English Translation UEEs: Do High-stakes Tests Assess Critical Thinking?

Gerannaz Zamani and Reza Rezvani

 

The Effect of Teaching Paragraph Structure Rules on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners¡¯ Reading Comprehension Ability

Amir Marzban and Azadeh Adibi

 

A Case Study of Non-English Majors¡¯ Performance in Speak2Me Virtual Learning Environment

Lin Yuan

 

The Relationship between Logical, Naturalist Intelligences and Learning Grammar for EFL Learners at Elementary Level

Zeinab Zahedi and Zargham Ghabanchi

 

A Study of Iranian High School English Textbooks Based on the Standard Criteria

Elahe Ghorbanchian, Manijeh Youhanaee, and Hossein Barati

 

Dreiser¡¯s Life and Creation: High Perspicacity from Crudity

Limin Bai

 

Interactional Metadiscourse in English and Persian News Articles about 9/11

Sara Yazdani, Shahla Sharifi, and Mahmoud Elyassi

 

Classroom and Formative Assessment in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

Somaye Ketabi and Saeed Ketabi

 

A Study on the Application of Schema Theory to English Newspaper Reading

Yunning Che

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