Volume 2, Number 1, January 2011

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

 

Rituals and Beliefs Ingrained in World Language Pedagogy: Defining Deep Structure and Conventional Wisdom

Brigid Moira Burke

 

Negotiating Tasks in EFL Classrooms

Luu Trong Tuan

 

Impact of Discussion Boards to the Success of English Lesson

Harun Yılmaz and Duygu Sağlam

 

The Reading Motivation and Reading Strategies Used by Undergraduates in University Teknologi MARA Dungun, Terengganu

Badariah binti Sani, Muhmad Noor bin Wan Chik, Yah binti Awg Nik, and Nor Adeena binti Raslee

 

When the Blind Lead the Blind: the Fallacy of Promoting Standard British English Accent in Cameroon

Aloysius Ngefac

 

Non-native Teacher Talk as Lexical Input in the Foreign Language Classroom

Eunice Tang

 

The Effect of Using Instructional Conversation Method in Teaching Reading Comprehension in Selected Junior Secondary Schools in Kaduna Metropolis

Hanna Yusuf

 

A Study on the Development of Strategic Tools in Study Orientation Skills towards Achieving Academic Excellence

Mohd. Ghani Awang and Suriya Kumar Sinnadurai

 

The Relation between Success and Absenteeism at Esogu English Preparatory School

Ümit Özkanal and Nadire Arıkan

 

Linguistic, Ideological, and Cultural Issues in Chinese and English Argumentative Writings

Jie Zhang

 

The Influence of Incidental and Intentional Vocabulary Acquisition and Vocabulary Strategy Use on Learning L2 Vocabularies

Minoo Alemi and Alireza Tayebi

 

Formative Assessment in Classrooms: Operational Procedures

Liqiu Wei

 

The Relationship between Critical Thinking Ability of Iranian EFL Learners and Their Resilience Level Facing Unfamiliar Vocabulary Items in Reading

Zahra Kamali and Mansoor Fahim

 

Types of Explicitation within the Texts in Chinese-English Translation!A Case Study on the Translation of Chapter Titles of Hong Lou Meng

Hong Guo

 

The Effect of Social Status and Size of Imposition on the Gratitude Strategies of Persian and English Speakers

Vajiheh Ahar and Abbas Eslami-Rasekh

 

Corpus-based Stylistic Analysis of Tourism English

Ning Kang and Qiaofeng Yu

 

(Post)-Methodism: Possibility of the Impossible?

Seyyed Mohammad Reza Hashemi

 

Chinese Tour Guides¨ Strategies in Intercultural Communication!Implications for Language Teaching and Tourism Education

Ying Huang

 

Applying the Reader-response Approach in Teaching English Short Stories to EFL Students

Sarvenaz Khatib

 

On Cultural Differences and Translation Methods

Hongmei Sun

 

A New Approach to Teaching English Poetry to EFL Students

Mohammad Khatib

 

A Feasibility Study of Error Analysis on the Teaching of Chinese-English Translation!A Case Study of Non-English Major Freshmen in BUPT

Yunhong Zhang and Baoling Wang

 

Mnemonic Instruction: A Way to Boost Vocabulary Learning and Recall

Mohammad Amiryousefi and Saeed Ketabi

 

An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Metacognitive Strategies and Online-learning Behavior & Test Achievements

Yuhui Liu and Hao Feng

 

Field-dependence/independence as a Factor Affecting Performance on Listening Comprehension Sub-skills: the Case of Iranian EFL Learners

Shiela kheirzadeh and Zohreh Kassaian

 

On Implicit Mode of Speech Reporting in Chinese Advertisements

Jianwu Peng

 

The Presence of Turkish Accent in the Iranian Turkish Speaking People's Farsi Contrasted with its Absence in Their Speaking English: Minimal Overwhelms Maximal Bilingualism

Ataollah Maleki

 

A Probe into Chinese Learners¨ Negative Cultural Transfer in EFL

Honglin Zhu

 

Reading-writing Connections in EAP Courses: Cross-linguistic Summary Protocols

Abbas Emam

 

Length-based Bilingual Sentence Alignment in Different Literary Forms

Jun Zhao

 

Analysis on the Main Factors Affecting the Reliability of Test Papers

Jiang Zhu and Lemeng Han

 

Investigating the Construct Validity of the FCE Reading Paper in Iranian EFL Context

Elahe Tavakoli and Hossein Barati

 

On Adding Cultural Contents to English Teaching

Yanping Huang

 

On the Translation of Children¨s Literature

Yu Zhang

 

Analysis of Power and Threat Manifestation in the Discourse of Traffic Police Officers: A CDA Perspective

Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi, Mehdi Latifi, and Elham Mohammadi

 

Towards the Abolition of Hierarchy!On O¨Connor¨s Racial Ideas in her Works

Jiping Yang

 

Validity Considerations in Designing an Oral Test

Wei Li

 

Deepening ESP Reading Comprehension through Visualization

Seyyed Mahdi Erfani, Abutaleb Iranmehr, and Hossein Davari

 

Three Models of Equivalence in English Translation of Chinese Classics in the Light of the Theory of Translation as Selection and Adaptation

Guodong Zhao and Xiao Liu

 

Exploring Cultural Knowledge in EFL Teaching in an EAVSC

Leijuan Hou and Zhihong Lu

 

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