Volume 2, Number 4, July 2011

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

Piaget¡¯s Egocentrism and Language Learning: Language Egocentrism (LE) and Language Differentiation (LD)

JeongChul Heo, Sumi Han, Christopher Koch, and Hasan Aydin

 

Translation in Teaching a Foreign (Second) Language: A Methodological Perspective

Sayuki Machida

 

Portfolio as a Viable Alternative in Writing Assessment

Behzad Nezakatgoo

 

The Critical Period Hypothesis Revisited: The Implications for Current Foreign Language Teaching to Young Learners

Esim G¨¹rsoy

 

A World of Lies in Heart of Darkness

Deyan Guo

 

Critical Thinking in Language Education

Saeed Rezaei, Ali Derakhshan, and Marzieh Bagherkazemi

 

An Assessment of Indian Writing in English as a Source for Learning English in Rural India

Sandeep K. Thorat

 

The Effect of Text Familiarity on Iranian EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension

Abbas Pourhossein Gilakjani and Seyedeh Masoumeh Ahmadi

 

A Cross-sectional Study of Iranian EFL Learners' Request Strategies

Alireza Jalilifar, Mahmood Hashemian, and Madine Tabatabaee

 

Self and Other¡ªAn Analysis of Jesse in Wonderland

Liheng Wang

 

English Language Teaching at Expenses of Thai Language Teaching for Urban Refugee Language Learners in Thailand: Social Inequalities Related to What Languages to Teach

Hugo Yu-Hsiu Lee

 

Kurt Vonnegut¡¯s Slaughterhouse-Five: A Postmodernist Study

Noorbakhsh Hooti and Vahid Omrani

 

The Integration of Peace Education in Reading Comprehension Lessons in Primary Schools

Hanna Onyi Yusuf

 

On Over-compensation and Principles of Linguistic Humor E-C Translation

Qian Han

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Teaching as a Disciplined Act: A Grounded Theory

Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi

 

Teaching English for Police Purposes in Saudi Arabia: An Exploratory Study

Fahad Alqurashi

 

Test Taking Strategies: Implications for Test Validation

Mohammad Salehi

 

Communicative Language Teaching in the Yemeni EFL Classroom: Embraced or Merely Lip-serviced?

Rula Fahmi Bataineh, Ruba Fahmi Bataineh, and Samiha Saif Thabet

 

The Impact of Teaching Critical Thinking Skills on Reading Comprehension of Iranian EFL Learners

Mansoor Fahim and Maryam Sa¡¯eepour

 

Research on High School Students¡¯ English Learning Anxiety

Jingjing Cui

 

Integrating Emailing Tasks into EFL Reading Comprehension Classrooms

Khalil Motallebzadeh

 

The Compatibility of Cultural Value in Iranian EFL Textbooks

Azadeh Asgari

 

Dynamic Assessment in Perspective: Demarcating Dynamic and Non-dynamic Boundaries

Mohammad Bavali, Mortaza Yamini, and Firooz Sadighi

 

Nonverbal Communication in College English Classroom Teaching

Liangguang Huang

 

Validation of an NLP Scale and its Relationship with Teacher Success in High Schools

Reza Pishghadam, Shaghayegh Shayesteh, and Mitra Shapoori

 

EFL Learners' Vocabulary Acquisition in Translational Writing

Abdulaziz Ibraheem Fageeh and Mohamed Amin A. Mekheimer

 

The Effect of Setting Reading Goals on the Vocabulary Retention of Iranian EFL Learners

Akbar Hesabi, Saeed Ketabi, Abbas Eslami Rasekh, and Shahnaz Kazemi

 

The Effect of Scaffolding Technique in Journal Writing among the Second Language Learners

Veeramuthu A/L Veerappan, Wei Hui Suan, and Tajularipin Sulaiman

 

The Effect of Teaching Strategic Competence on Speaking Performance of EFL Learners

Goudarz Alibakhshi and Davood Padiz

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