Volume 5, Number 11, November 2015

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REGULAR PAPERS

 

Metaphors and Translation Prisms

Eriko Sato

 

ELF Teaching in Portuguese Schools: The Not-so-good Old Days Are Back

Maria L. Cabral and Anabela M. Nobre

 

The Use of Facebook for Educational Purposes in EFL Classrooms

Ligia F. Espinosa

 

Educational Environment (Coeducation / Segregated) and the Progress of Speaking Ability among Iranian EFL Students

Mohammad Reza Ebrahimi and Nahid Yarahmadzehi

 

Promoting Foreign Language Learners¡¯ Writing: Comparing the Impact of Oral Conferencing and Collaborative Writing

Mania Nosratinia and Niousha Nikpanjeh

 

Number, Gender and Tense in Aljudhi Dialect of Mehri Language in Saudi Arabia

Mohsen Hebah Almakrami

 

Attitudes toward Writing English in Facebook: The Case of Prestige for Iranian Users

Mohsen Jannejad, Bita Asadi, and Mehran Memari

 

An Exploration of the Effect of Time Pressure and Peer Feedback on the Iranian EFL Students' Writing Performance

Nasim Ghanbari, Azade Karampourchangi, and Mohammad Reza Shamsaddini

 

Low Academic Achievement: Causes and Results

Samer M. Al-Zoubi and Mohammad A. Bani Younes

 

In Search of Equality: A Dream Deferred for African Americans in A Raisin in the Sun

Tayebeh Nowrouzi, Sohila Faghfori, and Esmaeil Zohdi

 

A Survey of the Lecturers' Perception about EFL Azad University Students' Autonomy versus Actual Level of Autonomy

Parvin Arshiyan and Kian Pishkar

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Using Functional Approach in Translating Arab Spring Topics: Aljazeera and BBC Arabic as Study Cases

Nazar M. Tawfiq and Che An Binti Abdul Ghani

 

¡°Inescapable Doubleness of Vision¡±: A Kristevian Reading of Alice Munro¡¯s ¡°Runaway¡±

Raheleh Bahador and Esmaeil Zohdi

 

A Comparative Study of the Novel ¡®A Tale of Two Cities¡¯ and Its Persian Translation in Terms of Textual Cohesion: The Cases of Punctuation Marks, Sentencing and Paragraphing

Zahra Sojudifar, Azadeh Nemati, and Mohammad Reza Falahati Qadimi Fumani

 

Racial and Sexual Politics of Their Eyes are Watching God from a Spatial Perspective

Lihua Zhao

 

A Comparison of Teacher Cognition and Corrective Feedback between University Graduates and Teachers Certified in English Language Teaching

Manoochehr Jafarigohar and Saeed Kheiri

 

A Comparative Study on the Effects of While Listening Note Taking and Post Listening Summary Writing on Iranian EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension

Touran Ahour and Sara Bargool

 

The Influence of Learners¡¯ Motivation and Attitudes on Second Language Teaching

Lili Zhao

 

A Linguistic Analysis of Errors in News Agencies and Websites of Iran

Elham Akbari and Reza Kheirabadi

 

Differential Effects of Explicit, Implicit, and Incidental Teaching on Learning Grammatical Cohesive Devices

Zeynab Bagheri and Asgar Mahmoudi

 

Contrastive Analysis of Lexical Choice and Ideologies in News Reporting the Same Accidents between Chinese and American Newspapers

Xianzhong He and Xulu Zhou

 

Self-efficacy and Prediction of Note-taking Inclination among Undergraduate Translation Students

Habibollah Mashhady, Moslem Fatollahi, and Maryam Pourgalavi

 

The Difference between Field Independent and Field Dependent Cognitive Styles regarding Translation Quality

Masoud Seid Motahari and Mehrnoush Norouzi

 

Professional Development of English Teachers in Second Language Teaching

Jinghua Zhang

 

On the Relationship between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety, Willingness to Communicate and Scholastic Success among Iranian EFL Learners

Mina Rastegar and Maliheh Karami

 

Collaborative Method and Vocabulary Retention of Teenage EFL Learners

Ali Shokouhi and Kian Pishkar

 

Culture Teaching in English Teaching in Secondary Education

Qian Chen

 

A Description and Evaluation of Hot Potatoes Web-authoring Software in Educational Settings

Nabiollah Sadeghi and Hassan Soleimani

 

Theme Markedness in Persian and English Medical Texts: A Systemic-functional Approach

Foroogh Kazemi

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A Contrastive Study of the Use of Causal Connectives by Chinese EFL Learners and English Native Speakers in Writing

Junhua Mo

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