Volume 2, Number 11, November 2012

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

Code Switching as a Medium of Instruction in an EFL Classroom

Soodeh Hamzehlou Moghadam, Adlina Abdul Samad, and Elham Rahmani Shahraki

 

Verb-noun (Object) Selectional Restriction in Ebughu

Christie Omego, Ogbonna Anyanwu, and Adimchinobi Onyegbuchulam

 

English Participial Adjectives and Arabic Agentive and Patientive Nouns

Khalil Hasan Nofal

 

Deverbal Nominalisations across Written-spoken Dichotomy in the Language of Science

Mohammad Hussein Norouzi, Ali Akbar Khomeijani Farahani, and Davood Borzabadi Farahani

 

Teacher Talk and Learner Involvement in EFL Classroom: The Case of Iranian Setting

Anahita Shamsipour and Hamid Allami

 

Contrastive Analysis in China: Today and Yesterday

Hongwei Jia and Jiafeng Tian

 

The Effect of Intensive and Extensive Focus on Form on EFL Learners¡¯ Written Accuracy

Massoud Rahimpour, Asghar Salimi, and Farahman Farrokhi

 

Innovative Teaching Methodology: Application of Computer and Technology in Iranian Business English Courses

Farnaz Latif and Mahdieh Shafipoor

 

Individualized Instruction in Large Classes of Integrated English in CALL Environments

Ping Li and Zhihong Lu

 

Definition-based Versus Contextualized Vocabulary Learning

Seyyed Mohammad Reza Amirian and Sakine Momeni

 

The Effects of Strategic Planning and Topic Familiarity on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners¡¯ Written Performance in TBLT

Asghar Salimi and Sima Fatollahnejad

 

The Use of Adverbial Conjuncts of Chinese EFL Learners and Native Speakers¨CCorpus-based Study

Yuting Xu and Yuhui Liu

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Gender and Field of Study and Performance on an English Language Proficiency Test

Ebrahim Khodadady and Beheshteh Shakhsi Dastgahian

 

Break Verbs in Caused-motion Construction

Xiaorong Xia

 

Overall Motivation and the Promotion of EFL Learners¡¯ Oral Proficiency

Arman Toni and Mohsen Rostami

 

On Chinese-English Translation of Culture-loaded Tourism Publicities: A Perspective of Cultural Manipulation Theory

Baicheng Zhang

 

Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Perception and Performance of Communication Strategies in Different Mediums of Communication

Asa Moattarian

 

Translation and Culture: Translating Idioms between English and Chinese from a Cultural Perspective

Dayan Liu

 

A Study of EFL Teachers' Locus of Control and Self-regulation and the Moderating Role of Self-efficacy

Mohammad Taghi Monshi Toussi and Afsaneh Ghanizadeh

 

On the Factors Influencing L1 Transfer

Aisong Yi

 

Levels and Sources of Language Anxiety and Fear of Negative Evaluation among Iranian EFL Learners

Mohammad Bagher Shabani

 

The Interaction between Metaphor and Metonymy in Emotion Category

Fangfang Ding

 

The Effect of Strategic Planning Time and Task Complexity on L2 Written Accuracy

Asghar Salimi, Parviz Alavinia, and Parvin Hosseini

 

Genre Analysis of American Presidential Inaugural Speech

Fang Liu

 

The Rationale for Introducing ¡°Global Issues¡± in English Textbook Development

Seyyed Mahdi Erfani

 

Self-orientalization and Its Counteraction against the Cultural Purpose of Gu Hongming in His Discourses and Sayings of Confucius

Mingguo Zhong

 

The Role of Semantic Mapping as a While-reading Activity in Improving Reading Comprehension Ability of the Iranian University Students in General English (GE) Courses

Mohammad Reza Mozayan, Ali Mohammad Fazilatfar, Anahita Khosravi, and Jafar Askari

 

The Application of Task-based Language Teaching to English Reading Classroom

Zan Mao

 

A Comparative Study of Refusal Strategies Used by Iranians and Australians

Masoud Azizi Abarghoui

 

An Empirical Study on the Relation between Meta-cognitive Strategies and Listening Autonomous Learning Ability

Hui Guo

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