Volume 7, Number 2, March 201
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REGULAR PAPERS

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ESL Teachers as Theory Makers: A Discourse Analysis of Student Assignments in a Second Language Acquisition Course

Paul Markham, Mary Rice, and Behnaz Darban

 

The Didactic Treatment of English as a Medium of Instruction in Ivorian Universities: A Case Study

J¨¦rôme Kouassi

 

Reading the Book versus ¡®Reading¡¯ the Film: Cinematic Adaptations of Literature as Catalyst for EFL Students¡¯ Critical Thinking Dispositions

Sara Djam¨¤a

 

The Impact of Mobile Phones on English Language Learning: Perceptions of EFL Undergraduates

George Mathew Nalliveettil and Talal Hail Khaled Alenazi

 

The Effect of a Suggested Program Based on Interactional Metadiscourse Markers on Developing EFL Majors¡¯ Reading Comprehension and the Reader-friendliness of Their Writing

Osama Hassanein Sayed Hassanein

 

Foreign Words in Jordanian Arabic among Jordanians Living in Irbid City: The Impact of Foreign Languages on Jordanian Arabic

Ibrahim Abushihab

 

The Impact of Learner¡¯s Autonomy on Teaching Oral Skills (Speaking Skills) in an EFL Classroom

Marium Bushra Qamar

 

The Grammar Impairment of Mandarin Chinese SLI Children: Evidence from Topic-comment Structures

Haopeng Yu

 

The Representation of Male and Female Social Actors in the ILI English Series

Bahador Sadeghi and Golrokh Maleki

 

Mentoring as a Supportive Way for Novice Teachers in Foreign Language Teacher Development: A Case Study in an Ethnic College in China

Ru Li

 

Social Capitals and English Language Learning in an Iranian Language Institute

Ebrahim Khodadady and Mozhgan Ashrafborji

 

A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Mother-daughter Relationship in ¡°I Stand Here Ironing¡±

Zhongming Bao and Mindan Wei

 

Evaluation of Two General English Textbooks: New Interchange 2 vs. Four Corners 3

Hadi Hamidi, Mehri Bagheri, Maryam Sarinavaee, and Akram Seyyedpour

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Validity of Multimodality in Autonomous Learning of Listening and Speaking

Yongmei Jiang

 

The Impact of Cultural Factors in Learning and Education on Iranian EFL Learners

Ameneh Nejabat

 

Role of Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) in Chinese Undergraduate Students¡¯ Comprehension of Textbooks

Jiangfeng Liu

 

Input Enhancement through Using Author¡¯s Biography: The Impact on Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Reading Comprehension Ability across Gender

Ayda Rahmani

 

From Self-identification to Self-destruction¡ªA Mirror Image Interpretation of Dorian Gray¡¯s Psychic Transformation

Yan Zhang

 

BICS and CALP: Implications for SLA

Mohammad Khatib and Masumeh Taie

 

Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Word Order from the Perspective of Figure-ground Theory¡ªA Case Study of The Moonstone and Its Chinese Version

Guodong Zhao and Zuoyu Cao

 

On the Mutual Effect of L1 and L2 in SLA: A Brief Look at Cook's Multi-competence

Mojtaba Teimourtash and Nima Shakouri

 

Tips for College Science Majors in English-Chinese Translation Practice

Lili Wang

 

Cohesion Analysis of Iranian Advanced EFL Learners¡¯ Writing

Fatemeh Zarepour

 

Analysis of Symbolic Meanings between Chinese and English Food Proverbs from the Perspective of Cultural Linguistics

Jianjun Wang and Jing Jia

 

Mistranslation of Three Cultural Signs: Rajm, Food, and Tayammum in Vambery¡¯s Travels in Central Asia

Ahmad Gholi

 

Effects of L2 on the L1 at Semantic Level: An Empirical Study

Peiyun Liu and Chuanbin Ni

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