Volume 6, Number 2, March 2015

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

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Guided Visual Vocabulary Practice: Spanish Language Vocabulary Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities and Possibilities beyond the Foreign Language Classroom

Joshua B. Tolbert, Belinda Davis Lazarus, and Kim Killu

 

Negotiation for Meaning and Feedback among Language Learners

Jiyon Cook

 

A Lexical Analysis of an Inaugural Speech of the Speaker of Benue State House of Assembly in Nigeria

Akinkurolere Susan Olajoke

 

Thai Adults Learn English via Translation

Supamit Chanseawrassamee

 

Diglossia as a Result of Language Variation in Arabic: Possible Solutions in Light of Language Planning

Mahmoud A. Al-Sobh, Abdel-Rahman H. Abu-Melhim, and Nedal A. Bani-Hani

 

Syntactic and Semantic Functions of Deictic Expressions in EFL Saudi Students' Writing

Mohammad Hamdan

 

Vocabulary Knowledge: Malaysian Tertiary Level Learners' Major Problem in Summary Writing

Anis Ashrafzadeh and Vahid Nimehchisalem

 

A Study of EFL Learners' (Meta) Pragmatic Learning through Explicit (Teacher Explanation) and Implicit (Foreign Film) Interventions: The Case of Compliment

Jaleh Hassaskhah and Hoorieh Ebrahimi

 

The Impact of the Application of Paired-storytelling Technique and Personality Type on Creative Writing

Yasnur Asri

 

Test-takers' Attitudes toward Taking Pictorial and Visual Modalities of Listening Comprehension Test in an EFL Context

Atefeh Elekaei, Sajad Faramarzi, and Reza Biria

 

Metadiscourse and Contrastive Rhetoric in Academic Writing: Evaluation of a Small Academic Corpus

Jabreel Asghar

 

The Impact of Textual Enhancement vs. Oral Enhancement on Learning English Language Grammar

Hamidreza Fatemipour and Somayeh Moharamzadeh

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Pragmatic Consciousness-raising Activities and EFL Learners¡¯ Speech Act Performance of ¡®Making Suggestions¡¯

Hossein Abolfathiasl and Ain Nadzimah Abdullah

 

The Impact of Process Ability Theory on the Speaking Abilities of Iranian EFL Learners

Ali Akbar Khansir and Masomeh Zaab

 

Speech Act of Buginese Housewives in Character-building of Pre-school Children

Hj. Ratnawati Umar, H. Achmad Tolla, H. Zainuddin Taha, and Abdullah Dola

 

The Effects of Pre-task Planning on the Writing Fluency of Iranian EFL Learners

Reza Biria and Zahra Karimi

 

Individual Verb Differences in Chinese Learners¡¯Acquisition of English Non-alternating Unaccusatives

Junhua Mo

 

The Effects of Using English Captions on Iranian Intermediate EFL Students Learning of Phrasal Verbs

Mohsen Ali Pasban, Mahshid Forghani, and Ahmad Nouri

 

A Study of Female Image in Beverley Farmer¡¯s Gerontissa

Hongmei Li

 

A Survey of EFL Teachers¡¯ Attitudes towards Critical Thinking Instruction

Fatemeh Asgharheidari and Abdorreza Tahriri

 

The Effect of Caption Modes on EFL Students¡¯ Video Comprehension

Jiangqiao Dong, Yajing Zhou, and Guiru Liu

 

Conflicting Rhetoric between Male and Female English Teachers: The Case of Pedagogically Related Discourse Models

Reza Biria and Nafiseh Mirzaie

 

A Preliminary Probe into Lin Shu¡¯s Creative Translation

Weihong Chen and Xiaojuan Cheng

 

Carroll's Autonomous Induction Theory: Combining Views from UG and Information Processing Theories

Parviz Maftoon and Laleh Toupa Esfandiari

 

On Technological Turn of Translation Studies: Evidences and Influences

Chengzhi Zhang and Hui Cai

 

The Colonized (the Other) and the Colonizer's Response to the Colonial Desire of 'Becoming Almost the Same But Not Quite the Same' in M. Butterfly

Samira Sasani

 

A Systemic Functional Study of the Quantifying Selection in the English Nominal Group

Manliang Li

 

English Compliment Response Strategies on Social Networks by Iranian EFL Learners

Zeinab Gholamali Dehkordi and Azizeh Chalak

 

An Analysis of the Use of Demonstratives in Argumentative Discourse by Chinese EFL Learners

Jing Zhang

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