Volume 8, Number 4, July 201
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REGULAR PAPERS

 

 

Exploring Spanish Register among Graduate Students: A Pilot Study of Spanish at a University in Southern California

Tanya Chroman

 

A Look into a Professional Learning Community

Nazanin Dehdary

 

How Explicit Listening Strategy Instruction Affects Listening Comprehension of Different Learners

Fatemeh Zarrabi

 

Antecedent Retrieval with Repeated Name Anaphors in Japanese: Topic and Subject

Shinichi Shoji

 

Bilingual Panama: EFL Teacher Perceptions, Study Abroad in an Immersion Environment

Dalys Vargas

 

A Comparison between Holistic and Analytic Assessment of Speaking

Maha Ounis

 

English Prepositions of Time Translated into Albanian

Meliha Brestovci and Sadete Ternava-Osmani

 

The Attitude of Economic Students and Lecturers toward Economic English Material Based on Shariah Economy System

Syamsul Una, Djamiah Husain, and Abd. Halim

 

The Impact of Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol Model on Student Teachers¨ Teaching Skills and Self-efficacy

Aly A. Koura and Faten A. Zahran

 

Arab Learners of English and the Use of Discourse Markers in Writing

Farah Mohammad Al Mughrabi

 

Strategy Use Awareness in Academic Listening Practices Relative to L2 Motivation among Chinese Tertiary Students

Bixi Jin and Wei Xu

 

A Qualitative Meta-synthesis of Research on Dynamic Assessment of Second/Foreign Language Learning: Implications for Language Teachers

Mahsa Ghanbarpour

 

EFL Teaching Methods

Yurong Hao

 

The Study of Parents¨ Words, Behavior and Attitude as the Means to Build the Children¨s Character in Bulukumba Regency

Darmawati, Achmad Tolla, and Mayong Maman

 

Cultivation of Translation Competence ! A Study on Translation Teaching in College English Teaching in Leshan Normal University, Sichuan, China

Ye Zhou and Li Zou

 

Do Different Instruction Modalities Matter? Exploring the Influence of Concept Mapping and Translation Strategies Instruction on the Reading Comprehension Ability of Adult EFL Learners

Mehran Davaribina and Shahram Esfandiari Asl

 

An Analysis Report of College English Classroom Teaching in the Grading Model

Liu Peng, Chunrong Wu, and Xianjun Tan

 

The Impact of Explicit Integrated Strategies Instruction on IELTS Applicants' Listening Comprehension

Jahanbakhsh Nikoopour, Roozbeh Kargar Moakhar, and Nadimeh Esfandiari

 

An Experimental Research on the Effects of Types of Glossing on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading

Shan Liu

 

Perceptions of Indonesian Teachers and Students on the Use of Quipper School as an Online Platform for Extended EFL Learning

Eliasanti Agustina and Bambang Yudi Cahyono

 

A Brief Study on the Qualities of an Effective Sentence

Xiu Yu

 

An Investigation into Iranian EFL Teachers¨ Perception of Learner Autonomy

Seyed Mohammad Reza Amirian and Mostafa Azari Noughabi

 

A Cognitive Approach to Grammatical Mechanism in English Euphemism

Yu Li

 

The Comparative Effect of Portfolio and Summative Assessments on EFL Learners' Writing Ability, Anxiety, and Autonomy

Mania Nosratinia and Farahnaz Abdi

 

 

 


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