Volume 3, Number 8, August 2013

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REGULAR PAPERS

The Effectiveness of a Suggested Specific Course on Developing Third-year University Students¡¯ Skills in Translating Culture-specific Items

Montasser Mohamed Abdelwahab Mahmoud

 

Recommendation for Sustaining the In-service Professional Development of Tertiary EFL Teachers

Junyi Meng, Songphorn Tajaroensuk, and Sirinthorn Seepho

 

Materiality, New Economics and Dynamics in Controlled Cultural Writing: A Derridean Exploration

Chung-ling Shih

 

The Current Practices of Teaching Grammar in CLT at Secondary School Level in Bangladesh: Problems and Probable Solutions

Sofe Ahmed

 

Feedback on Washback of EFL Tests on ELT in L2 Classroom

Ghasemali Azadi and Reza Gholami

 

An Analysis of Errors in English Writing Made by Chinese and Korean University Students

Cui Zheng and Tae-Ja Park

 

Iranian Language Learners' Conceptions of the Ideal English Lesson: Form-focused or Communicative

Saeedeh Kavoshian, Gholamreza Medadian, and Mohammadreza Lorzadeh

 

On the Versatility of the Competence Acquired through Immersion Program

Shaban Barimani

 

On FL Learners' Individual Differences in Grammar Learning and Their Grammatical Competence Training

Hui He

 

Empirical Study on the English Listening Learning Anxiety

Xiaohui Xu

 

Use of Podcasts in Effective Teaching of Vocabulary: Learners' Attitudes, Motivations and Limitations

Najmeh Farshi and Zeinab Mohammadi

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Promoting Knowledge Construction and Cognitive Development: A Case Study of Teacher¡¯s Questioning

Kelu Wang and Xiaolin Wang

 

The Application and Significance of Discourse Cohesion and Analysis in Practical Teaching of Foreign Language

Junxin Li

 

The Effect of Negotiated Syllabus on EFL Learners¡¯ Writing Ability and Self-efficacy

Gholam-Reza Abbasian and Parvin Malardi

 

The Study on the Relationship between English Self-concept and Significant Others

Meihua Wang

 

Translator¡¯s Horizon of Expectations and the Inevitability of Retranslation of Literary Works

Jinfeng Zhang

 

Definiteness Effect (DE) in English as a Second Language

Meisam Rahimi and Manijeh Youhanaee

 

The Jane Eyre in Charlotte¡¯s Heart¡ªAppreciation of Song Zhaolin¡¯s Translation of Jane Eyre

Liangqiu Lv and Hongye Zhu

 

On the Cultivation of Cross-culture Communication Competence of Second Language Learners

Haiyan Gao

 

The Impact of Extensive Reading Programs on the Pronunciation Accuracy of EFL Learners at Basic Levels

Elham Malmeer and Seyed Mahdi Araghi

 

The Impact of Task Presentations on Chinese EFL Learner¡¯s Writing Performance¡ªFrom a Perspective of Practical Paperwork

Xiping Li

 

Further Exploration of the Thought of Self-reliance with the Concept of Compensation and Vocation

Haijing Liang

 

The Impact of Two Types of Vocabulary Preparation on Listening Comprehension, Vocabulary Learning, and Vocabulary Learning Strategy Use

Mandana Hazrat and Gholamreza Hessamy

 

Analysis on the Artistic Features and Themes of the Theater of the Absurd

Jiang Zhu

 

What Are the Metaphors We Live by?

Xiu Yu

 

Politeness in Persian and English Dissertation Acknowledgments

Alireza Jalilifar and Mohammad Javad Mohammadi

 

Exploring Impacts of IT in Language Teaching in China

Changlin Sun

 

Gender Differences in Using Language

Xiufang Xia

 

Why on Earth Is Learners¡¯ Patience Wearing Thin: The Interplay between Ambiguity Tolerance and Reading Comprehension Valence of Iranian Intermediate Level Students

Hadi Yaghoubi Nezhad, Isa Atarodi, and Maryam Khalili

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