Volume 2, Number 9, September 2012

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REGULAR PAPERS

English Literary Portrait of the Arabs

Fahd Mohammed Taleb Saeed Al-Olaqi

 

An Ethnographic Analysis of Names of Round Characters in Wole Soyinka¡¯s The Strong Breed

Idowu Olusola Odebode

 

Intercultural Languages Education and Its Complex Insights: The Case of Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

Ribut Wahyudi

 

Contextual American Transcendentalism

Alireza Manzari

 

A Lexico-syntactic Comparative Analysis of Ondo and Ikale Dialects of the Yoruba Language

Omoniyi Moses Ayeomoni

 

Parent Education and High School Achievement in English as a Foreign Language

Ebrahim Khodadady and Farnaz Farrokh Alaee

 

Gendered EFL Classroom Interaction¡ªA Case Study in a Senior Middle School in China

Wenhua Hu

 

Two-place Activity Predicates in Persian

Vali Rezai

 

A Study on Experiential Translation Teaching under Multimedia Network Environment

Xiaowei Guan, Dongmei Wang, and Rui Zhang

 

Language Learning Strategies and Vocabulary Size of Iranian EFL Learners

Ali Akbar Ansarin, Mohammad Zohrabi, and Simin Zeynali

 

The Symbolism in The Piano

Yufeng Bai

 

Strategies Used in Translation of English Idioms into Persian in Novels

Shokooh Khosravi and Mohammad Khatib

 

Compliment Response Strategies by Thai and Chinese EFL Teachers: A Contrastive Study

Jun Chen and Nathaya Boonkongsaen

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The Impact of Using Etymological Analysis on Teaching Vocabulary to EFL University Students

Effat Hosseini, Shahrzad Sarfallah, Fateme Bakhshipour, and Hamid Reza Dolatabadi

 

Integration of ESP into EGP: The Multidimensional and Hybrid English Training Model in Liaoning Police Academy

Li Wei

 

Natural Selection and The Cage

Ebrahim Salimikouchi and Camelia Talebian Sadehi

 

Collocation in English Teaching and Learning

Manfu Duan and Xiaohui Qin

 

Evidentiality in Academic Writing

Mojdeh Ebrahimi Dehkordi and Hamid Allami

 

A Contrastive Study of Chinese and British English Request Modifications

Xiuping Han

 

Assessing Speech Acts of Curses and Prayers in Persian

Shahla Sharifi and Shima Ebrahimi

 

Research on Statistical Mechanisms of Language Acquisition

Haiyan Han

 

A Post-structuralist Reading on Henry James¡¯s ¡®The Figure in the Carpet¡¯

Ali Taghizadeh

 

Shakespeare Reception in China

Yanna Sun

 

On the Relationship between Self-regulated Learning Components and L2 Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension

Abbas Ali Zarei and Gamar Hatami

 

An Approach to the Translation of Brand Names

Fade Wang

 

Teaching Persian Subjunctive Mood to Non-Persian Students Based on Cognitive Linguistics (Mental Spaces Theory)

Ferdows Aghagolzadeh Silakhori and Zahra Abbasi

 

A Case Study of the Application of a Blended Learning Approach to Web-based College English Teaching Platform in a Medical University in Eastern China

Weiwei Zhang and Cuixia Han

 

The Effect of Student Teams Achievement Division Technique on English Achievement of Iranian EFL Learners

Ehsan Alijanian

 

Tolkien¡¯s Fantasy World

Haifeng Pu

 

Feminist Criticism of the Story of Homay Chehrzad's Kingdom in Shahnameh

Mohammad Behnamfar, Homeira Alizadeh Garmabesofla, and Effat Fareq

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