Volume 2, Number 3, March 2012

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REGULAR PAPERS

English for Specific Purposes in Spanish Higher Education Settings: A Diagnostic Focus on Students¡¯ Preliminary Language Awareness, Attitudes and Expectations

Nuria Edo Marz¨¢

 

An Empirical Research into EFL Learners¡¯ Motivation

Luu Trong Tuan

 

Promoting Harmony during Disagreements: A Portrait of Adult Discussions in the Indonesian Context

Zuliati Rohmah

 

A Closer Look at Reading Strategy Use in Reading Section of TOEFL iBT

Sayyed Mohammad Alavi and Soodeh Bordbar

 

A Pragmatic Analysis of Victory and Inaugural Speeches of President Umaru Musa Yar¡¯Adua

Omoniyi Moses Ayeomoni and Olajoke Susan Akinkuolere

 

Elementary School EFL Learners¡¯ Adoption of English Names and Implications for Classroom Practice

Grace Chin-Wen Chien

 

Classroom Teaching Strategies of Improving the English Majors¡¯ Self-instruction in Newly¨Cpromoted University in China

Qiaoying Wang

 

The Impact of Teacher Self-efficacy on the Students¡¯ Motivation and Achievement

Ahmad Mojavezi and Marzieh Poodineh Tamiz

 

A Short Analysis of Information Structures of English Sentences

Shufang Cheng

 

Mnemonic Effectiveness of CL-motivated Picture-elucidation Tasks in Foreign Learners¡¯ Acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs

Hussein Muhammadi Farsani, Ahmad Moinzadeh, and Mansoor Tavakoli

 

The Realization of Derivation-by-phase Causatives in the Framework of Tree Adjoining Grammar

Qiang Wang

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The Competency Based Approach to English Language Education and the Walls between the Classroom and the Society in Cameroon: Pulling Down the Walls

Carlous Muluh Nkwetisama

 

Effectiveness Study of English Learning in Blended Learning Environment

Wenyu Liu and Hanjing Yu

 

Use of the Metacognitive English Language Learning Strategies Based on Personality Traits

Seyed Hossein Fazeli

 

Study of the Fragmented Structure in Oracle Night as a Metafiction

Hui Ni and Dawei Lian

 

Grice¡¯s Cooperative Maxims as Linguistic Criteria for News Selectivity

Reza Kheirabadi and Ferdows Aghagolzadeh

 

How Peer Review Affects Chinese College Students¡¯ English Writing Abilities

Chunlin Yao and Hongmei Cao

 

Teaching English as a Second Language: The Role of Noticing the Gap

Alexandra Uzoaku Esimaje

 

Hokkien Chinese Borrowings on Cookery in Tagalog

Xuebo Cui

 

The Impact of Task Difficulty and Language Proficiency on Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Code-switching in Writing

Amir Sabzevar Qahfarokhi and Reza Biria

 

Promoting Noticing in EFL Classroom

Sumin Zhang

 

Validity and Tests Developed on Reduced Redundancy, Language Components and Schema Theory

Ebrahim Khodadady

 

Should Grammar be Taught?

Ruyun Hu

 

A Study of the English Translations of the Qur'anic Verb Phrase: The Derivatives of the Triliteral

Mehdi F. al-Ghazalli

 

The Formalization of English Structures with ¡°on¡± and Their Chinese Translations

Xiaowei Guan

 

Teacher¡¯s Error Correction: A Key Factor in Developing Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Speech Accuracy

Mahshid Hejazi

 

The Impact of Listening Strategy on Listening Comprehension

Yan Zhang

 

EFL Teachers¡¯ Attitudes toward Using Computer Technology in English Language Teaching

Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani and Lai-Mei Leong

 

Differences in L1 and L2 Academic Writing

Yingli Wang

 

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Today

Basel Al-Sheikh Hussein

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