Volume 5, Number 12, December 2015

Table of Contents

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REGULAR PAPERS

 

Loss and Gain: Revisiting the Roles of the First Language in Novice Adult Second Language Learning Classrooms

Yingqin Liu and Annie Ping Zeng

 

Effective Use of Performance-based Assessments to Identify English Knowledge and Skills of EFL Students in Ecuador

Ligia F. Espinosa

 

Bilingualism in Education

Malahat Veliyeva

 

Genre Analysis and Reading Comprehension: The Potentials of Genre Analysis to Faster the Literacy Skills of Iraqi EFL Students

Jihad Hassan Aziz Al Gurkosh

 

The Effect of Using Authentic Materials on Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Vocabulary Learning

Nasim Ghanbari, Fatemeh Esmaili, and Mohammad Reza Shamsaddini

 

A Learning-centered Course Design of Interpreting for Non-English Majors¡ªAn Empirical Study

Ping Li

 

The Effect of Proficiency and Task Type on the Use of Paraphrase Type in Writing among Iranian EFL University Students

Khalegh Setoodeh

 

Reporting Verbs in Applied Linguistics Research Articles by Native and Non-native Writers

Manoochehr Jafarigohar and Amirali Mohammadkhani

 

Feasibility Research on an EAP Course for Science and Engineering Students in China

Pengfei Yan

 

Portfolio Assessment, Peer Assessment and Writing Skill Improvement

Ahmad Yaghoubi and Majid Mobin

 

The Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Attitudes towards English Language Learning and Their Inferencing Ability in Reading Comprehension

Faezeh Azarkia, Hesamuddin Aliasin, and Robab Khosravi

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Strategies for Translating Household Appliance Instructions from Chinese to English

Jianping Huang and Yu¡¯an Li

 

The Efficacy of CMC versus Traditional Approaches to Teaching Translation to Iranian Junior Translation and Civil Engineering Students

Reza Biria and Mina Momenzadeh

 

Panopticism in Jos¨¦ Saramago¡¯s Blindness

Somaye Esmaeili and Esmaeil Zohdi

 

Discussion on the First Lesson in Chinese Characters Teaching to the Foreign Students

Leixin Su and Zhu Zeng

 

The Relationship between EFL Teachers¡¯ Assessment Literacy, Their Teaching Experience, and Their Age: A Case of Iranian EFL Teachers

Samaneh Zolfaghari and Hamid Ashraf

 

Learners' Gender, Reading Comprehension, and Reading Strategies in Descriptive and Narrative Macro-genres

Yadollah Hosseini Asgarabadi, Afsar Rouhi, and Manouchehr Jafarigohar

 

Analysis on Lexical Errors in Writings of Mongolian English Majors

Xueping Li

 

Assessment of Semantic Adequacy: English Translations of Persian Official Texts in Focus

Narges Jamali and Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

 

An Interpretation of the Significance of ¡®Time¡¯: The Case of English and Persian Proverbs

Ali Dabbagh and Mahdi Noshadi

 

Study on the Effect of Structural Priming on Chinese EFL Learners¡¯ Language Production

Lihua Shen

 

Individual Dynamic Assessment: An Analysis of Iranian EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension Errors

Marzieh Emadi and Ali Arabmofrad

 

Art as a Master Narrative in Paul Auster¡¯s City of Glass

Maryam Moghbeli, Sohila Faghfori, and Esmaeil Zohdi

 

Genre Analysis and Advanced English Teaching

Chunchun Cao and Suzhen Guo

 

Semantic Skill in Persian-speaking in Identical Twins

Sakineh Dokhani and Reza Kheirabadi

 

The Relationship among EFL Teachers, Students¡¯ Attitudes & Their Teaching-learning Achievements in English

Fereidoon Vahdany, Narjes Banou Sabouri, and Soghieh Ghafarnian

 

An Ecological Interpretation of Love Medicine

Minglan Zhang and Fade Wang

 

Self-Efficacy and Anxiety among EFL Learners with Different Kinds of Multiple Intelligences

Hamid Marashi and Massoomeh Dakhili

 

Collocational Use: A Contrastive Analysis of Strategies Used by Iranian EFL Learners

Mohammad Davoudi and Azam Behshad

 

Application of ¡°Combined Method¡± in Characters Teaching of TCFL

Zhu Zeng

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