Volume 6, Number 8, August 2016

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REGULAR PAPERS

 

The Impact of Creative Circles on EFL Learners¡¯ Reading Comprehension

Abdulaziz Ali Al-Qahtani and Mei Lin

 

Alienation and Betrayal: A Comparative Study of Okonkwo and Said Mahran

Abdulrahman Mokbel Mahyoub Hezam

 

A Critique of Politeness Theories

Fareed H. Al-Hindawi and Musaab A. Raheem Alkhazaali

 

¡®Keep an Eye on Your Son! He Is Reading Too Much These Days¡¯: Understanding the Reading Attitudes in English of Rural and Urban Sindhi Students

Shumaila Memon, Sumera Umrani, and Natasha Memon

 

A Survey Report of Chinese College Students¡¯ Perceptions of the College English Course

Ming Li, Guofu Zhao, and Gaigai Cao

 

On Relationship between Factors and the Use of Reading Strategies

Xiaoling Yang

 

English Medium or No English Medium: Parental Perspectives from Pakistan

Khalid Hussain Channa, Shumaila Memon, and Faraz Ali Bughio

 

A Study on the Acquisition of English WH-question by Chinese Beginning Learners

Xiaorong Zhang

 

L1 Role in Bilinguals¡¯ Mental Lexicon: A Comparative Study between Chinese-English and Alphabetic Bilinguals

Li Li

 

Foreign Language Anxiety and Learner Beliefs in Second Language Learning: A Research Timeline

Illahi Bux Gopang, Faraz Ali Bughio, Shumaila Aijaz Memon, and Jalal Faiz

 

A Social Semiotic Approach to Multimodal Discourse of the Badge of Xi¡¯an Jiaotong University

Yang Yang

 

An Analysis of The Falls from the Perspective of Gothic

Lingling Xu

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Adopting CALL to Improve Listening Comprehension of Iranian Junior High School Students

Sedigheh Vahdat and Maryam Eidipour

 

The Effects of Context Richness and Different Task-demands on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention

He Bai

 

Research on the Teaching Model of College English Autonomous Learning in the Environment of Internet

Nan Chen

 

The Effects of Collaborative and Individual Planning on Iranian Male and Female EFL Learners' Writing Ability

Sara Mirazi and Asgar Mahmoudi

 

The Acquisition of Mandarin Modal Verbs by English Speakers

Haiyan Wang

 

Towards the Crypto-functional Motive of Existential there: A Systemic Functional Perspective

Baohua Dong

 

The Study of Kurdish & Persian Languages Use in Kermanshah

Farahnaz Jalilian Tabar and Narjes Banou Sabouri

 

Examining English Language Teachers through Metaphorical Analysis

Xin Zhang

 

The Plight of Contemporary Native Americans in Love Medicine

Ting Bo

 

The Significance of Listening Comprehension in English Language Teaching

Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani and Narjes Banou Sabouri

 

From Blood Intimacy to the Birth of Self-consciousness in The Rainbow

Weigui Zhou

 

Appraisal Theory in Functionalism and Translation Evaluation

Xiufang Xia

 

Noun Phrase or Compound Noun? An Investigation of N + A and N + N Boundary Cases in Persian

Shahram Peyman and Vali Rezai

 

On Two Intractable English Poetic Elements

Qiang Xiong

 

A Study of The Call of the Wild from the Perspective of Greimas¡¯ Semiotic Square Theory

Weiguo Si

 

The Effect of Native Model Writing on the Vocabulary Richness of Iranian EFL Learners¡¯ Written Text in a Four-stage Writing Task

Seyed Mohammad Reza Amirian and Azam Behshad

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