Volume 6, Number 3, March 201
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REGULAR PAPERS

 

To Build a Culturally Sensitive Educator: A Clinical Model Highlighting the Importance of Innovative ESL Strategies in Early Field Placement Classes Teaching ELL Middle Level Students

Patricia Walsh Coates

 

An Investigation into EFL Learners¡¯ Perception towards L2 Pragmatic Instruction

Hyekyeng Kim

 

The English Language and Afro Saxons: A Systemic Study of the Communicative Qualities of a Selection of African Prose Passages

Bassey Ufot and Idara E. Thomas

 

Sri Aurobindo¡¯s Yogic Discovery of the ¡®One Original Language¡¯ of Mankind: A Linguistic Exploration

Nikhil Kumar

 

Analyzing Arabic Translation Methods of English Similes: A Case Study of The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Jaber Nashi M Alshammari

 

Pedagogical Efficiency of Teacher-led Whole-class Scaffolding as a Pre-writing Task

Nafiseh Hosseinpour and Mansour Koosha

 

A Comparative Study of the Phonological Awareness of Pre-school Persian Monolingual and Turkish-Persian Bilingual Children

Moussa Ahmadian, Leila Bahrami, and Seyyedeh-Mahsa Amini

 

Structural Complexity and Saliency in Interpretation of Familiar Metaphors

Andrew P. L. Tobing, Tengku Silvana Sinar, Nurlela, and Muhizar Muchtar

 

Attributions for Success and Failure: Gender and Language Proficiency Differences among Iranian EFL Learners

Afsane Mohammadi and Masoud Sharififar

 

The Effect of Input-based and Output-based Instruction on EFL Learners' Autonomy in Writing

Asghar Salimi and Kiana Shams

 

Studies of Translation Norms of Ai Xi La Ge by Ma Junwu: Within the Framework of Andrew Chesterman¡¯s Theory of Translation Norms

Ruichao Geng

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The Relationship between Critical Thinking Ability of Iranian English Translation Students and Their Translation Ability

Nooshin Azin and Hossein Heidari Tabrizi

 

The Relationship between EFL Learners¡¯ Extensive Reading and English Language Proficiency

Mohammad Davoudi, Moslem Zolfagharkhani, and Mojtaba Rezaei

 

Chinese Students¡¯ Awareness of Functions in Their Learning of Spoken English

Qian Liu

 

A Comparative Study on the Effect of Pre-instruction and While-instruction Alphabet Teaching in EFL Context

Ghaffar Maleki and Nava Nourdad

 

The Effect of Test Taking Strategies on EFL Learners¡¯ Listening Proficiency Gains

Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi

 

The Importance of Culture Factor in Foreign Language Teaching

Changjuan Zhan

 

Preparing for a Postmethod Pedagogy: A Transformative Approach to Curriculum Development

Arash V. Naeini and Nima Shakouri

 

Enhancing Listening Fluency through Well-beaten Path Approach

Saeed Ghaniabady and Hamid Reza Hashemi

 

A Semiotic Approach to Dimensions of Meaning in Translation

Xian Xiao

 

The Effectiveness of Strategy-based Vocabulary Instruction on Iranian EFL Learners' Recall

Elham Izadpanah and Narjes Ghafournia

 

An Analysis of ¡®Closure¡¯ and ¡®Equilibrium¡¯ in Mathew Quick¡¯s The Silver Linings Playbook in the Light of Gestalt Psychology

Ali Taghizadeh and Moein Moradi

 

Grammar Learning Strategies Applied to ESP Teaching

Zhaojun Chen

 

Iranian Instructors¡¯ Practices and Criteria for Teaching English Translation

Elham Heidari and Bahram Mowlaie

 

Proposing a Conceptual Model for Teacher Expertise in ELT

Elham Yazdanmehr, Ramin Akbari, Gholamreza Kiany, and Reza Ghaffar Samar

 

Study on Campus Slang from the Perspective of Semiotics

Yong Wang

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