Volume 4, Number 2, March 2013

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REGULAR PAPERS

The Relationships between Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Vocabulary Size among Adult Spanish Foreign Language Learners

Dieter A. Waldvogel

 

Kanji Learning by FL Students from Character and Non-character Based Language Backgrounds ¨C Report from a Foreign Language Class

Sayuki Machida

 

¡°My Country in Europe¡±: A Content-based Project for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners

Eleni I. Korosidou and Eleni A. Griva

 

ELT Majors' Cross Sectional Evaluation of Academic Lexical Competence and Performance

G¨¹l DURMUŞOĞLU KÖSE and İlknur YUKSEL

 

Exploring a Literacy Development in Young Korean ELLs with Online E-books

Tecnam Yoon

 

A Study on Language Learning Strategy Use and Its Relation to Academic Self-concept: The Case of EFL Students in Taiwan

Hui-ju Liu and Chih-hui Chang

 

Which One Is the Most Dangerous: a Lion, the Lion, or Lions? A Study on the Acquisition of Generic Reference by Persian Learners

Marjansadat Momenzade, Manijeh Youhanaee, and Zohreh Kassaian

 

Interactive Theoretical Model of Text Processing Reflected in Reading Comprehension: An Experimental Study

Azadeh Elmianvari and Reza Kheirabadi

 

The Demonstration of Sexism in Thomas Hardy¡¯s Short Stories via Appraisal Analysis

Biook Behnam and Golpar Bahar

 

Blended Learning in a University EFL Writing Course: Description and Evaluation

Meihua Liu

 

Caryl Churchill¡¯s Vinegar Tom: Beyond Feminism?

Mohammad Reza Modarres Zadeh and Helen Ouliaeinia

 

Research-based Teaching Comprehension Strategies: Bridging the Gap

Ndileleni Paulinah Mudzielwana

 

The Relationship between Lexical Diversity and Genre in Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Writings

Karim Sadeghi and Sholeh Karvani Dilmaghani

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The Analysis of Summative Assessment and Formative Assessment and Their Roles in College English Assessment System

Wenjie Qu and Chunling Zhang

 

Different Strategies of Compliment Responses Used by Iranian EFL Students and Australian English Speakers

Reza Mohajernia and Hassan Solimani

 

Japanese Speaking Personnel Proficiency Deficiencies: A Case Study of Japanese Education in Thailand

Nareenoot Damrongchai

 

The Effects of Verb Tense Variation on the Fluency in Monologues by TOEFL iBT Candidates

Ali Akbar Jafarpour, Mahmood Hashemian, and Majid Rafati

 

A Database Study of Dynamics for Contemporary China¡¯s Translation and Publication

Qingguang Wei

 

Nabokov's Postmodernism: The Matter of Discourse and Survival in Pale Fire

Pyeaam Abbasi and Omid Amani

 

The Study of EFL Students¡¯ Requests Based on Politeness Theory

Azadeh Elmianvari and Reza Kheirabadi

 

The Effect of Different Tasks on L2 Learners¡¯ Acquisition of Grammar

Atefeh Sharifalnasab and Zahra Fotovatnia

 

A Comparative Study of the Deep Structure of Culture Reflected in English and Chinese Social Proverbs

Wen Zhao

 

The Orbit of Pursuit in Johnson's Rasselas

Mohammad Reza Modarres Zadeh and Hossein Pirnajmuddin

 

China¡¯s Secondary School EFL Teachers¡¯ Situational Restraints in the Implementation of Mediation

Xiongyong Cheng, Mingxing Yang, and Hua Cheng

 

On the Viability of Vocabulary Learning Enhancement through the Implementation of MALL: The Case of Iranian EFL Learners

Parviz Alavinia and Kamel Qoitassi

 

Teacher Written Feedback on L2 Student Writings

Yayun Wen

 

Cross-linguistic Transfer (from L1 to L2, L2 to L1, and L2 to L3) of Reading Strategies in a Multicompetent Mind

Seyed Hassan Talebi

 

Seize the Day: An Existentialist Look

Hong Wu

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