Volume 4, Number 1, January 2014

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

A Practice of Reading Assessment in a Primary Classroom

Ruiting Wu, Ruijuan Wu, and Jinjin Lu

 

Realia as Carriers of National and Historical Overtones

Ketevan Djachy and Mariam Pareshishvili

 

Gender Semiotics and the 21st Century Feminist Utopia: Implications on National Security and Socio-cultural Development

Blossom Shimayam Ottoh-Agede and Ako Essien-Eyo

 

Metaphors in Indonesian Soccer News

Ekaning Krisnawati

 

High School English Teachers¡¯ Professional Life Cycle: A Study in an EFL Context

Arif Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Al-Ahdal

 

Toward a Learning-centered EAP Instruction: An Attempt to Change Students¡¯ Reading Attitude

Seyyed Hossein Kashef, Ambigapathy Pandian, and Sima Modir Khameneh

 

A Corpus-based Machine Translation Method of Term Extraction in LSP Texts

Wei Huangfu and Yushan Zhao

 

A Sociolinguistic Study of Language and Gender in Desperate Housewives

Jie Li

 

The Relationship between Incidental Vocabulary Learning and Multiple Intelligences of Iranian EFL Learners

Ali Akbar Khomeijani Farahani and Elnaz Latifi Kalkhoran

 

A Comparative Study of the English Versions of The Analects by Legge and Ku Hungming

Lihua Yang

 

Corpus Functional Stylistic Analysis of Modal Verbs in Major Barbara and Its Chinese Versions

Zan Mao, Na Li, and Jiao Xue

 

Critical Thinking and Speaking Proficiency: A Mixed-method Study

Reza Vahdani Sanavi and Samaneh Tarighat

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A Sociology of Translation: From Text World to Life World

Qingguang Wei

 

The Study of Verbal Allusion Translation in Film Subtitle: Based on Relevance Theory

Juan Liu and Huijuan Jia

 

The Relationship between Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation and Strategic Use of Language of Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners

Zeinab Moradi Khazaie and Zahra Mesbah

 

A Case Study of College Teacher's Politeness Strategy in EFL Classroom

Liu Peng, Fang Xie, and Lingling Cai

 

Naturalistic Color in Edith Wharton¡¯s Ethan Frome

Na Li

 

Explore the Relationship between Strategy Use and ESP Reading Test Performance of Two University Majors (Humanities vs. Science)

Azizolah Dabaghi and Mahboobe Akvan

 

A Contrastive Study of Time as Space Metaphor in English and Chinese

Cheng Chen

 

Reconsidering the End-point Approach: (A)telicity and (Un)boundedness Distinction

Lei Liu

 

The Effect of Schema-vs-translation-based Teaching on Learning English in High Schools

Ebrahim Khodadady and Reyhaneh Hesarzadeh

 

Translators¡¯ Subjectivity on the Lexical Level under the Pragmatic Adaptation Theory¡ª A Case Study of the English Version of Fortress Besieged

Chao Zhang

 

A Survey of Postgraduates¡¯ State of Language Learning at Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Science

Yingjie Wang

 

A Comparative Study of Speech-acts in the Textbooks by Native and Non-native Speakers: A Pragmatic Analysis of New Interchange Series vs. Locally-made EFL Textbooks

Rahim Vaezi, Soudabeh Tabatabaei, and Morteza Bakhtiarvand

 

The Relevance Study of College Students¡¯ Chunk Level and Their Translation Ability

Liwei Zhu

 

¡°Evil Woman¡± in the Ancient Egyptian Literature

Piyong Liu

 

A Comparative Study of Apologetic E-mails Used by Males and Females Iranian EFL Learners Compared to English Native Speaking Students

Zeinab Mohamadi

 

The Influence of Cultural Differences between English and Chinese in Advertisement Translation and the Application of Domestication Principle

Qian Chen

 

Investigating L2 Refusals: A Case Study of Chinese Native Speakers¡¯ L2 Pragmatic Competence

Xiufeng Tian

 

Raymond Carver, Male and Female Interventions in "Cathedral"

Samira Sasani

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