Volume 5, Number 8, August 2015

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

 

A Cross-linguistic Analysis of Interactive Metadiscourse Devices Employment in Native English and Arab ESL Academic Writings

Ali Ayed S. Alshahrani

 

Protest against Military Regime in Wole Soyinka¡¯s King Baabu

Mashhoor Abdu Al-Moghales and Abdulrahman Mokbel Mahyoub Hezam

 

Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Grade and English Achievement

Ebrahim Khodadady and Beheshteh Shakhsi Dastgahian

 

English in China: Foreignness, Consequences and Solutions

Ping Tang

 

The Pedagogical Influence of Interpersonal and Cognitive Discourse Markers on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners¡¯ Listening Comprehension

Hossein Heidari Tabrizi and Ramin Vaezi

 

Pronunciation as a Stumbling Block for the Saudi English Learners: An Analysis of the Problems and Some Remedies

Paikar Fatima Mazhar Hameed and Mohammed Shariq Aslam

 

An Experimental Study on the Impact(s) of Emotional Intelligence Enhancement on Answering Cloze Test among Iranian University Students

Mohammad Reza Ebrahimi and Hooshang Khoshsima

 

A Survey of the Status Quo of Business English Discipline in Universities in China: Take Universities in Shanxi Province as an Example

Hailin Liu

 

The Effects of Oral vs. Written Corrective Feedback on Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Essay Writing

Marjan Sobhani and Farhad Tayebipour

 

Problems of English Language Acquisition in Saudi Arabia: An Exploratory-cum-remedial Study

Ahmed Sulaiman Al-Nasser

 

The Effects of Explicit and Implicit Instruction of Vocabulary through Reading on EFL Learners' Vocabulary Development

Marzieh Khamesipour

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Spelling Errors Analysis in College English Writing

Yanyan Liu

 

Analysing the Potential of Social Networking Sites on EFL Learners¡¯ Vocabulary Mastery: A Situated-learning Approach

Elham Nikbakht and Abbas Mehrabi Boshrabadi

 

On Grammatical Borrowing: The Case of Arabic Plurals in the Urdu Language

Anwar A. H. Al-Athwary

 

A Sociocultural Perspective on Everyday Interactions Stressing Grammatical vs. Communicative Competence: The Case of Iranian Taxi-discussions

Hamidreza Dowlatabadi and Leyli Jorfi

 

Power Struggle between the Adult and Child in Alice¡¯s Adventures in Wonderland

Aihong Ren

 

Challenges of Mediation Theory and Gender Differences in Iranian EFL Contexts

Morteza Mellati, Marzieh Khademi, and Parisa Etela

 

Let Them Toil to Learn: Implicit Feedback, Self- correction and Performance in EFL Writing

Salameh S. Mahmoud and Khaled K. Oraby

 

The Impact of Different Types of Tasks (Structured and Unstructured) on the Production of Relative Clauses and Lexical Diversity of Iranian EFL University Students

Maryam Miri

 

An Analysis of Pragmatic Functions of Hedging in American Presidential Inaugural Addresses

Yongqing Teng

 

An Investigation into the English Language Needs of Bank Employees of Saderat Bank in Mashhad

Sakineh Mohammadzadeh, Tahereh Barati, and Mohammad Ali Fatemi

 

Motivating Reluctant EFL Students to Talk in Class: Strategies and Tactics

Dawood Ahmed Mahdi

 

The Impact of Students Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) on Iranian EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension

Ali Akbar Khansir and Tahereh Alipour

 

The Application Study of Note-taking of Interpreting in College English Course

Yue Zhao

 

The Study of Learning Styles, Thinking Styles, and English Language Academic Self-efficacy among the Students of Islamic Azad University of Behbahan Considering Their Field of Study and Gender

Mohammadreza Negahi, Naser Nouri, and Alireza Khoram

 

The English Koranic Images in Some Literary Writings

Fahd Mohammed Taleb Saeed Al-Olaqi

 

EFL Practitioners¡¯ Perspectives on ¡°The Prospect¡± Textbook: A Qualitative Study

Seyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi and Marzieh Davari-Torshizi

 

An Analysis of the Causes and Countermeasures of Students¡¯ English Learning Weariness in Junior High School

Shuangshuang Wang

 

The Effect of Semantic Mapping Strategy Instruction on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners¡¯ Listening Comprehension

Touran Ahour and Sepideh Rafiei Sakhaei

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