Volume 6, Number 3, May 2015

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

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The Importance of Considering Students¡¯ Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds: Languages Are Friends, Not Enemies! Certamente l¡¯Italiano e¡¯ l¡¯amico di tutti!

Karla Del Carpio and Perla Del Carpio

 

Analysis of Errors in English Writings Committed by Arab First-year College Students of EFL in Israel

Tareq Mitaib Murad and Mahmood Hasan Khalil

 

The Linguistic Content of the Ịzọn Language Curriculum for Primary Schools

God¡¯spower Tamaraukuro Prezi

 

Making Sense of Errors Made by Analytical Chemistry Students in Their Writing

Misiwe Katiya, Thembinkosi Mtonjeni, and Puleng Sefalane-Nkohla

 

Relationship between Acculturation Attitude and Pragmatic Comprehension

Vahid Rafieyan, Nazanin Behnammohammadian, and Maryam Orang

 

Towards Idiomatic Competence of Yemeni EFL Undergraduates

Abdu Mohammad Talib Al-kadi

 

The Effect of Familiarity with Content Knowledge on Iranian Medical Students¡¯ Performance in Reading Comprehension Texts: A Comparative Study of Medical and TEFL Students

Anis Ashrafzadeh, Zuraidah Mohd Don, and Mojtaba Meshkat

 

The Causes of Writing Apprehension through Students¡¯ Perspective

Yasser Al-Shboul and Ibrahim Fathi Huwari

 

The Consistency between Writing Self-efficacy and Writing Performance

Ilyana Jalaluddin, Shamala Paramasivam, Salina Husain, and Roslina Abu Bakar

 

The Development of Interactive Multimedia for First-grade Beginning Readers of Elementary School: An Innovative Learning Approach

Irlidiya, Achmad Tolla, Nurdin Noni, and Anshari

 

Relationship between Cultural Intelligence and Pragmatic Comprehension

Vahid Rafieyan, Hassan Golerazeghi, and Maryam Orang

 

The Phonological Rhetoric and Poetical Texture in Ulysses: A Cognitive Phonological Perspective

Xianyou Wu

 

The Relationship between Iranian EFL Teachers¡¯ Behavior and Academic Achievement of High School Students

Ahmad Nouri

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A Survey Study: The Correlation between Introversion/Extroversion and Oral English Learning Outcome

Yan Chen, Yuhong Jiang, and Zengzhen Mu

 

Analysis of Official Letters Based on Applied Genre Analytical Model

Melika Hadavi, Behrooz Marzban, and Mostafa Morady Moghaddam

 

A Study on Ethnic Identity Status and Its Contextual Factors among College Students of Bai Nationality in Yunnan

Ying Kou and Ying Huang

 

English Language Policy and Teacher Effectiveness at Grade Three Senior High Schools

Ebrahim Khodadady, Leila Aryanjam, and Mohammad Ghazanfari

 

Application of Learner¡¯s Autonomy to College English Learning

Fangpeng Gai

 

Gender Differences in Emotional Content of EFL Written Narratives

Shima Ahmadi-Azad

 

A Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Online News Reports on Economic Crisis ¨D A Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective

Haiyan Wang

 

The Use of L1 as a Consciousness-raising Tool in Teaching Grammar to Beginner and Upper-intermediate EFL Students

Zoobinshid Arshad, Mohammadreza Abdolrahimpour, and Mohammad Reza Najafi

 

Interlanguage-based Error Analysis in Higher Vocational and Technological College EFL Education in China

Xiongyong Cheng

 

British and American Phonetic Varieties

Naghmeh Mirzaie Hosseinzadeh, Aliyeh Kord Zafaranlu Kambuziya, and Mansour Shariati

 

On Different Types of Love Stories Written by O. Henry

Yue Zhang and Lijun Wang

 

Genre-based Discourse Analysis of Wedding Invitation Cards in Iran

Sajad Faramarzi, Atefeh Elekaei, and Hossein Heidari Tabrizi

 

Explicitation of Personal Pronoun Subject in Chinese EFL Majors¡¯ Translation: A Case Study of Translation Universals Based on PACCEL-W Corpus

Yurong Hao

 

Trends in ESP and EGP

Mohammad Zohrabi

 

A Critical Analysis of the Use of Pinyin as a Substitute of Chinese Characters

Herbert Mushangwe and Godfrey Chisoni

 

Brain Dominance and Test Format: A Case of Vocabulary

Zahra Kordjazi and Behzad Ghonsooly

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