Volume 5, Number 2, February 2015

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REGULAR PAPERS

 

A Framework for Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities in Spanish Courses: Connecting Learning Characteristics and Instructional Methods

Joshua B. Tolbert, Kim Killu, and Belinda Davis Lazarus

 

Literature Mediated English in the UCM Degree in Modern Languages: A Pilot Study

Elena Dom¨ªnguez Romero and Jelena Bobkina

 

Functional Analysis of Marked and Unmarked Theme in Demonstrating a Critical Argument Written by Iraqi and Australian Postgraduate Students

Ali Jabbar Al Bakaa

 

Exploring English Academic Texts on Language Education and Pedagogy: Structural, Stylistic and Lexical Features

Victoria Tuzlukova and Saleh S. Al-Busaidi

 

Iranian EFL Students¡¯ Listening Comprehension Problems

Sara Nowrouzi, Shu Sim Tam, Gholamreza Zareian, and Vahid Nimehchisalem

 

Influence of Differentiated Instruction Workshop on Taiwanese Elementary School English Teachers¡¯ Activity Design

Chin-Wen Chien

 

Role of Simulations in the Thai Graduate Business English Program: Can They Engage and Elicit Learners¡¯ Realistic Use of Specific Language?

Melada Sudajit-apa

 

The Effects of Implicit and Explicit Focus on Form on Oral Accuracy of EFL Learners

Sina Soltanabadi Farshi and Sholeh Dadashzad Baghbani

 

Dynamic Development of Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Multilingual Learners¡¯ L1, L2 and L3 Writing

Wenxing Yang and Ying Sun

 

Interactive Markers in Medical Research Articles Written by Iranian and Native Authors of ISI and Non-ISI Medical Journals: A Contrastive Metadiscourse Analysis of Method Section

Fariba Ghadyani and Mohammad Hassan Tahririan

 

Lexicalisation in Japanese, Chinese and German: A Focus upon Scalarity

Wenchao Li

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The Impact of EFL Teachers¡¯ Years of Experience on Their Cultural Identity

Mohammad Zabetipour and Bibi Ashraf Baghi

 

Cognitive Grounding and Its Adaptability to Chinese Noun Studies

Xiaoyu Xing, Yubo Zhang, and Lifang Chen

 

Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Speeches: A Case Study of Obama's and Rouhani's Speeches at UN

Massoud Sharififar and Elahe Rahimi

 

The Quest Motif of Jewish Culture and Saul Bellow¡¯s Model of Novels

Wensheng Deng

 

Application of Reading Strategies: A Comparative Study between Iranian and Indian EFL Students

Mohammad Reza Talebinejad, Akram Sadeghdaghighi, and Farahnaz Liaghat

 

A Study of Chinese Second-year English Majors¡¯ Code Switching Phenomenon in Comprehensive English Course from the Perspective of Interlanguage

Lili Cui and Xianchun Xie

 

Allegorized Subaltern: Subjectivity and Death in the Works of Bahman Ghobadi

Bahee Hadaegh and Mohamad Zandi

 

Social Psychology of Auspicious and Ominous Cardinal Numbers in Oriental and Occidental Cultures and Their Translations

Zhenghua Tan

 

Conflict of Philosophies of Education in Public vs. Private School Discourses: An Investigation of English Language Teachers' Teacher-room Talk in Iranian Context

Davud Kuhi and Hamzeh Pazhuman

 

The Effect of Task Frequency on EFL Speaking Ability Acquisition

Yuxiu Yu

 

The Comparison of the Prepositions /به :be/ in Persian and /پَه :pa/ in Balochi

Mousa Mahmoudzahi

 

A Study on the Characterization of Hagar Shipley

Hong Xiao and Yiwen Gao

 

Exploring the Relationship between Willingness to Communicate in English, and Social/Cultural Capital among Iranian Undergraduate English Majors

Hesamoddin Shahriari Ahmadi, Ahmad Ansarifar, and Majid Ansarifar

 

Comparison of Cultural Backgrounds of Chinese and Western Cyberliterature

Dongjie Li

 

Vowel Classification and Vowel Space in Persian

Nasim Esfandiari, Batool Alinezhad, and Adel Rafiei

 

A Study on College English Teachers' Role in Developing Learner Autonomy

Li Xu

 

An Investigation of the Relation between Self-esteem, Indirect Strategy Use and Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners' Oral Language Proficiency

Touran Ahour and Zahra Hassanzadeh

 

An Analysis on the Psyche of Richardson¡¯s Pamela

Nijia Zhang and Yanhong Fan

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