Volume 4, Number 8, August 2014

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REGULAR PAPERS

Student Satisfaction with Using Independent Study Logs as Part of English Classes

Mary Frances Litzler

 

Effect of Transdisciplinary Approach in Group Therapy to Develop Social Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Rajeev Ranjan, Kajal Ray Pradhan, and Joyce Wong

 

Name Calling and Vulgarity as Threats to National Peace and Security: The Case of Language of Virtual Community

Godwin Oko Ushie and Juliet Ude Ifeakor

 

Non-standard Idioms in Cameroon English Literature and Their Impact on English Language Learning and Intelligibility

Lozzi Martial Meutem Kamtchueng

 

Teachers' Perspectives on Post Observation Conferences: A Study at a Saudi Arabian University

Adil Abdul Rehman and Abdullah Al-Bargi

 

Coetzee¡¯s Postmodern Bodies: Disgrace between Human and Animal Bodies

Shadi S. Neimneh

 

The Impact of American Students and Teachers on Gulf Students¡¯ Academic Success

Ghadah Al Murshidi

 

Effect of Form-focused Pragmatic Instruction on Production of Conventional Expressions

Vahid Rafieyan, Maryam Sharafi-Nejad, and Lin Siew Eng

 

TESOL Classroom Observations: A Boon or a Bane? An Exploratory Study at a Saudi Arabian University

Sayyed Rashid Shah and Khalid Al Harthi

 

Selectivity of Second Language Attrition

Junyan Wei

 

Benefits and Barriers of Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching in the Arab World: Jordan as a Model

Nedal A. Bani Hani

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Beyond Cultural Identity: A Reading of Sanjay Nigam¡¯s Transplanted Man

Lihua Zhao

 

A Comparative Study of Two Cognitive Models in Teaching Idiomatic Phrasal Verbs: Tyler and Evan¡¯s vs. Lakoff and Johnson¡¯s Approach

Mohammad Reza Talebinezhad and Nikoo Farhadian

 

A Theory of Literary Realism

Ali Taghizadeh

 

English-Chinese Translation Strategies on Press Conference

Xuedong Shi

 

Impact of Teaching Grammar through Humor on Iranian EFL Learners

Fatemeh Salehi and Akbar Hesabi

 

A Critical Analysis of the Selection Criteria of Expert Teachers in ELT

Ramin Akbari and Elham Yazdanmehr

 

Shifts of Cohesive Devices in English-Chinese Translation

Jing Wu

 

Computerized Input Enhancement versus Computer-assisted Glosses: Do They Affect Vocabulary Recall and Retention?

Mojgan Rashtchi and Hassan Aghili

 

Impediments of Reaching God and Ways of Surmounting Them in Two Selected Allegories of Rumi's Spiritual Couplets

Ahmad Gholi and Masoud Ahmadi Mosaabad

 

Quest for the Female Self-awareness in Iris Murdoch¡¯s A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Mingying Xu

 

The Effect of Second Language Writing Ability on First Language Writing Ability

Nastaran Mehrabi

 

The Effect of Length of Exposure to Computer-based Vocabulary Activities on Young Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Vocabulary Gain

Karim Sadeghi and Masoumeh Dousti

 

A Study of Mother Tongue Interference in Pronunciation of College English Learning in China

Jianping Luo

 

Dynamic Assessment of Grammar with Different Age Groups

Elham Malmeer and Masoud Zoghi

 

Second Language Acquisition in Informal Setting

Taher Bahrani, Tam Shu Sim, and Marziyeh Nekoueizadeh

 

Prophecy in William Blake¡¯s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Baoguo Shen, Yinxia Liu, and Junxia Yang

 

Dialogical Odes by John Keats: Mythologically Revisited

Somayyeh Hashemi and Bahram Kazemian

 

Translation of Culture-specific Phrases in the Holy Quran

Mojtaba Moradi and Hossain Mohammad Sadeghi

 

The Feasibility Study of Interpretive Theories in the College English Course¡ªExemplified with Qingdao University of Science and Technology

Yue Zhao

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