Volume 6, Number 4, April 201
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REGULAR PAPERS

 

English Language Learning in the Margins: Toward a Movement to Help Service-industry Workers in Thailand

Hugo Yu-Hsiu Lee

 

Motivational Strategies and EFL Teachers¡¯ Perceptions: A Saudi Survey

Saleh Mohammad Ali Alqahtani

 

The Impact of Arabic on Wolof Language

Muna Aljhaj-Saleh Salama Al-Ajrami

 

Thai University Academics¡¯ Challenges of Writing for Publication in English

Sureepong Phothongsunan

 

The Effect of Cooperative Strategies versus Concept Visualization on Reading Comprehension Ability of Intermediate EFL Learners

Hamidreza Fatemipour and Maral Hashemi

 

Exploring Cross-cultural Pragmatic Judgment of Two Groups of EFL Teachers on Formal Written Requests

SIU, Fiona Kwai-peng

 

An Analysis of Pragmatic Competence in 2013 Presidential Election Candidates of Iran: A Comparison of Speech Acts with the Poll Outcomes

Hassan Soleimani and Maliheh Nouraei Yeganeh

 

The Effects of Self- and Peer-assessment on Iranian EFL Learners' Argumentative Writing Performance

Hamid Reza Iraji, Mostafa Janebi Enayat, and Mahyar Momeni

 

Negative Feedback as a Facilitative Device for the Acquisition of English Questions by Chinese College Students: An Interactional Perspective

Jiannan Song

 

Applying Different Interventions to Teach Writing to Students with Disabilities: A Review Study

Yasaman Rouhani, Asghar Moulavi Nafchi, and Seyyed Mehdi Ziaee

 

Relation between Socio-economic Status and Motivation of Learners in Learning English as a Foreign Language

Ali Akbar Khansir, Naeimeh Jafarizadegan, and Fatemeh Karampoor

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Formative Assessment in Oral English Classroom and Alleviation of Speaking Apprehension

Lingying Tang

 

The Impact of Knowledge of Multiword Units on Pragmatic Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners

Leila Javdani and Esmaeil Jadidi

 

Improving the Quality of Second Language Writing by First Language Use

Moussa Ahmadian, Sajjad Pouromid, and Mehdi Nickkhah

 

A Study on Whether the Adults¡¯ Second Language Acquisition Is Easy or Not¡ªFrom the Perspective of Children¡¯s Native Language Acquisition

Fei Deng and Qin Zou

 

Investigating the Nature of Interaction at Elementary and Intermediate EFL Classes

Fereidoon Vahdani, Zahra Maleknia, and Hoda Divsar

 

The Efficacy of Novel Pre-activity Tasks on Macroskills: The Case of Group Discussion on Reading Comprehension

Hooshang Khoshsima and Mahboobeh Khosravani

 

A Study of Catchwords from the Perspective of Speech Community

Weihua Yu

 

An Investigation of Iranian EFL Learners' Attitudes towards the Use of Critical Awareness Techniques in Reading English Academic Texts

Pasha Mohtadi and Davud Kuhi

 

The Effect of Van Dijk Discourse Strategies on Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Writing Proficiency

Fateme Rasuli Kashkuli, Nasim Ghanbari, and Abbas Abbasi

 

Sociolinguistics and English Teaching in China

Hongmei Zhang and Ni Wang

 

A Review of Relationship between Self-regulation and Reading Comprehension

Sanaz Nejadihassan and Ali Arabmofrad

 

Exploring the Professional Identity of the Iranian English Teachers: The Case of English Institutes of Iranshahr

Esmail Zainadiny Mofrad

 

On Suggestions of Strategy Training in Reading Comprehension

Xiaoling Yang

 

Student-engaged Viewpoint on Technology in Learning English in Zanjan Public High Schools

Siros Izadpanah and Mansooreh Alavi

 

An Evaluation of TEFL Postgraduates¡¯ Testing Classroom Activities and Assignments Based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Hassan Soleimani and Saeed Kheiri

 

A Study on Self-regulated Micro-course Learning and Implicitly Layered Flipped Classroom

Zhongwen Liu, Li Wei, and Xia Gao

 

Critical Thinking, Autonomy, and Lexical Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners

Sajad Faramarzi, Atefeh Elekaei, and Hossein Heidari Tabrizi

 

A Contrastive Study of ESP Text Books and Content Books for Metadiscourse Markers: The Cases of Psychology, Medicine, and Mechanical Engineering

Ahmad Alibabaee, Fereshteh Eslamizadeh, and Fatemeh Soleimani

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Conversation Code-switching in Class with Chinese as Foreign Language

Junqing Wang and Junli Wu

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