Volume 4, Number 1, January 2013

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

English Language Teacher Motivation in Sri Lankan Public Schools

Sujeewa Hettiarachchi

 

Non-native EFL Teacher Trainees¡¯ Attitude towards the Recruitment of NESTs and Teacher Collaboration in Language Classrooms

Li-Yi Wang

 

Default Diminutives: Evidence from Modern Standard Arabic

Sabri Alshboul, Sahail M. Asassfeh, and Yousef Al shaboul

 

An Exploration of EFL Learners¡¯ Anxiety and E-learning Environments

Peiwen Huang and Yanling Hwang

 

The Role of ¡°Radical Change¡± in Medium of Instruction and Its Impact on Learning

Mirza Naveed Shahzad, Sadia Sajjad, Mirza Ashfaq Ahmed, and Zahid Asghar

 

Humanistic Education: Concerns, Implications and Applications

Mohammad Khatib, Saeid Najafi Sarem, and Hadi Hamidi

 

The Effect of Pre-reading Discussions on Word-guessing Ability of Iranian Pre-intermediate Freshmen University Students

Karim Sadeghi and Tayebeh Samadi

 

Personality Traits, Motivation and Foreign Language Attainment

Wenxia Zhang, Danli Su, and Meihua Liu

 

The Other Transformed: Orientalist Discourse in Book IV of Keats Endymion

Hossein Pirnajmuddin and Parisa Shiran

 

The Impact of Task-planning and Gender on the Accuracy of Narrations Composed by Iranian EFL Learners

Hamid Reza Haghverdi, Reza Biria, and Hamid Reza Khalaji

 

Applying Internet Resources to Aiding Chinese Learners of Chinese-English Translation

Xiaonong Wang and Bo Chang

 

Delving into the Relationship between LOC, MI, and Reading Proficiency

Farrokhlagha Heidari and Najme Khorasaniha

 

The Overriding Role of Critical Thinking in Nahjolbalaqa ¡®Letters¡¯: Insights from Bloom¡¯s Cognitive Model

Parviz Alavinia and Shirin Malekzadeh

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A Study on the Application of Data-driven Learning in Vocabulary Teaching and Leaning in China¡¯s EFL Class

Xiaowei Guan

 

A Review of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience" in Persian Translation

Maryam Pakzadian and Ahmad Moinzadeh

 

Discourse Models in Passion Drama: A Comparison of English Tragedies and Persian Tazieh

Mohammad Reza Talebinejad

 

Translators Training: Teaching Programs, Curricula, Practices

Jinyu Liu

 

Doomed Mythic Artist: Sam Shepard¡¯s Angel City

Shima Shahbazi and Hossein Pirnajmuddin

 

In Defense of a Hybrid Model for EFL Vocabulary Instruction

Gholam-Reza Abbasian and Banafsheh Arianezhad

 

On the Use of Linking Adverbials by Chinese College English Learners

Guobing Liu

 

Technical Translation: A Study of Interference in Three Persian Translations of ¡°Software Engineering¡±

Ladan Hosseinimanesh and Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

 

The Impact of Collaborative Writing on the Writing Fluency of Iranian EFL Learners

Reza Biria and Sahar Jafari

 

An Empirical Investigation of the Critical Factors Affecting Students¡¯ Satisfaction in EFL Blended Learning

Jinxiu Wu and Wenyu Liu

 

A Comparative Analysis of the Frequency and Function of If-clauses in Applied Linguistics and Chemistry Articles

Akbar Hesabi, Morteza Raei Dehaghi, and Mohammadtaghi Shahnazari-Dorcheh

 

The Effect of Lexical Glossing Types on Reading and Listening Skills of Iranian EFL Learners

Niloofar Fahimipour and Mahmood Hashemian

 

Diachronic Study on the Derivation of There in There-be Construction

Qun Ren

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