Volume 5, Number 2, March 2014

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REGULAR PAPERS

The Impact of Word Study Intervention on Adult English Learners¡¯ Spelling and Reading

Donita Massengill Shaw

 

Gender Representation in Current EFL Textbooks in Iranian Secondary Schools

Mahnaz Hall

 

Pronunciation and Comprehension of Oral English in the English as a Foreign Language Class: Key Aspects, Students¡¯ Perceptions and Proposals

Nuria Edo Marz¨¢

 

A Literature Review on the Heuristics of Learning Writing, and a Discussion of Academic Rigor and (robo) Grading

James Andrew Freeman

 

An Investigation on English Reading Strategy Use in Major-related Materials among Native and Foreign Language Learners

Jianfeng Zheng and Ning Kang

 

The Knowledge Base of Primary EFL Teachers ¨C Pre-service and In-service Teachers¡¯ Perceptions

Stella Kourieos

 

¡°The Book of the Grotesque¡± and Winesburg, Ohio

Lihua Zhang

 

Lexical Inferencing: The Relationship between Number and Density of Lexical Items and L2 Learners' Reading Comprehension Achievement

Nastaran Chegeni and Omid Tabatabaei

 

College EFL Teachers¡¯ Perspectives on Listening Assessment and Summarization for a Specific Task

Brent G. Walters and Ching-ning Chien

 

On the Significance of Learner Strategies in English Reading on Learners¡¯ Language Achievement

Hui He, Caixia Hu, and Hua Liu

 

The Child-murdering Mother: Dionysian or Apollonian? A Study of Nietzsche¡¯s View on Euripidean Tragedy

Bahee Hadaegh and Parisa Shams

 

A Framework for Investigating Foundation Year Students¡¯ Needs in General English in KAU: Needs Analysis Extended to Curriculum Development

Salameh Saleem Mahmoud

 

How Chinese Culture Goes to the World through Literary Translation

Yuanzhen Peng

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EFL Teachers¡¯ Attitudes towards Being Supervised in an EFL Context

Ramin Rahmany, Mohammad Taghi Hasani, and Kaivan Parhoodeh

 

Skill-based Categories: An Alternative of Language Learning Strategy Measurement

Ag. Bambang Setiyadi

 

A Gender Perspective of Translation: Taking Three Chinese Versions of The Purple Color as an Example

Lihua Yang

 

Application of Computer and Technology in EFL Syllabus Design

Isar Gholaminia Tabari and Azadeh Gholaminia Tabari

 

The Basque Bilingual Education System: A Model for a Kurdish Bilingual Education System in Turkey

Burhan Ozfidan

 

Study on Developing Chinese College EFL Learners¡¯ Pragmatic Competence in Relation to Language Proficiency and Overseas Experience

Zhen Hu

 

The Efficacy of Delineating L2 Sources of Grammatical Errors with Reference to the Students¡¯ L1 for Increasing Iranian EFL Learner¡¯s Production and Recognition Accuracy

Mohammad Reza Hasannejad, Seyed Mahdi Araghi, and Mehdi Mirzaei

 

A Critical Examination of Motivation in the Omani English Language Education System

Ali S.M. Al-Issa

 

A Study via Interviews of the Chinese Bouyei College Learners¡¯ EFL Classroom Anxiety Arousals

Jianhua Wei

 

Item Preview, Proficiency Level and Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategy Use in Multiple-choice Reading Comprehension Items

Amir Reza Nemat Tabrizi and Saba Vafakhah

 

Common Attributes of Outstanding College EFL Teachers¡¯ Teaching

Ching-ning Chien

 

The Study of English and Chinese Numerical Idioms and Their Translation

Yuan Kong

 

Teachers' Individual Practical Knowledge about Teaching Reading Comprehension

Ramin Rahmany, Mohammad Taghi Hassani, and Hamid Fattahi

 

A Short Analysis of Discourse Coherence

Yuan Wang and Minghe Guo

 

The Contract Motif in Western Literature and Identity Crisis

Wensheng Deng

 

The Process of Developing an Academic Reading Test and Evaluating Its Authenticity

Shahzad Karim and Naushaba Haq

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