Volume 9, Number 2, February 2019

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REGULAR PAPERS

 

The Limitations of Reading to Young Children in Literary Arabic: The Unspoken Struggle with Arabic Diglossia

Riham Shendy

 

Reconstructing the Past: Reproduction of Trauma in Maxine Hong Kingston¡¯s The Woman Warrior

Qiong He

 

Training Teachers¡¯ Perspectives of the Effectiveness of the ¡°Academy-Class¡± Training Model on Trainees¡¯ Professional Development

Nabil Assadi, Tareq Murad, and Mahmood Khalil

 

Derivational Complexity in EFL Learners¡¯ Development of Bi-clausal Wh-questions

Jung-Tae Kim

 

English Language Skills Required by the Hospitality and Tourism Sector in El Oro, Ecuador

Mayra Alexandra Cuenca Erazo, Stephanie Isabel Molina Ram¨ªrez, Maria Asuncion Rojas Encalada, Jhonny Villafuerte Holguin, and Jia Hui Zou

 

A Social Semiotic Approach and a Visual Analysis Approach for Chinese Traditional Visual Language: A Case of Tea Packaging Design

Bin Hu, Oksana Zelenko, Vaughn Pinxit, and Laurie Buys

 

Common Paragraph Writing Errors Made by Saudi EFL Students: Error Analysis

Farooq AlTameemy and Amer Daradkeh

 

A Systematic Research on the Working Mechanism of Decategorization of Nouns in Mandarin Chinese

Zhen Li

 

Use of Foreign Films in Cultivating Intercultural Communicative Competence in ELT¡ªA Case Study

Jianying Yue

 

Adapting a Text for Testing Purposes: Approach to Academic Reading and Writing Assessment Design in the Arab World

Larysa Nikolayeva

 

The Comparative Study of Chinese and English Kinship Terms

Yan Miao

 

The Analysis of Cold Jokes Based on Relevance Theory

Rui Hong

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Linguistic and Pragmatic Failure of Arab Learners in Direct Polite Requests and Invitations: A Cross-cultural Study

Nahed Ghazzoul

 

A Comparative Study on Chinese and English Animals Idioms and Translation Strategies

Jili Liu

 

On Translation of Cultural Images in Ancient Chinese Poems

Hongwei Ye

 

Translation Analysis of Taxis in ¡°The Old Man and the Sea¡± Novel (Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach)

Arso Setyaji, Sri Samiati Tarjana, M. R. Nababan, and Tri Wiratno

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