Vol 6, No 6 (2015)

Table of Contents

Articles

The Effects of Using Microsoft Power Point on EFL Learners’ Attitude and Anxiety
Boualem Benghalem
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1-6
Examining the Effect of Interference on Short-term Memory Recall of Arabic Abstract and Concrete Words Using Free, Cued, and Serial Recall Paradigms
Ahmed Mohammed Saleh Alduais, Yasir Saad Almukhaizeem
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7-24
The Effect of Iranian Teachers’ Epistemological Beliefs on Their Teaching Practice
Malahat Yousefzadeh, Leila Babapour Azam
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25-28
A Network Text Analysis of David Ayer’s Fury
Starling David Hunter, Susan Smith
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29-38
How James Kept the Pace?; A Look into the Organic Unity of Daisy Miller
Sina Movaghati, Milad Comcar
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39-45
“Reports from an Absurdist” —An Analysis of Artistic Features of Ukraine Diaries
Yang Jing
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46-48
Influence of Speech Anxiety on Oral Communication Skills among ESL/EFL Learners
Said Muhammad Khan
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49-53
The Effect of Focus on Form and Task Complexity on L2 Learners’ Oral Task Performance
Asghar Salimi
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54-62
Power in Play: A Foucauldian Reading of A.O. Soyinka’s The Trials of Brother Jero
Mahboobeh Davoodifar, Moussa Pourya Asl
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63-68
Acculturation Attitudes and Sociocultural Adaptation of Chinese Mainland Sojourners in Hong Kong
Yuanyi Ma, Bo Wang
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69-73
On the Comparative Impact of Self-assessment and Teacher-assessment on Iranian EFL Learners' Academic Motivation
Asghar Salimi, Vahid Nowrozi Larsari
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74-79
Language Testing: an Overview and Language Testing in Educational Institutions of Bangladesh
Md. Mahroof Hossain, Md. Kawser Ahmed
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80-84
Development and Validation of a Materials Preparation Model from the Perspective of Transformative Pedagogy
Hamed Barjesteh, Parviz Birjandi, Parviz Maftoon
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85-93
Lexion: That Which Upholds or Bears an Archetype; Introducing Lex and Lexion to Modern English
Helen Russ
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94-100
Mandarin, Suzhou Dialect and English: Multilingualism in Suzhou
Sibing Xu
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101-106
Acoustic Analysis on the Palatalized Vowels of Modern Mongolian
Sangidkhorloo Bulgantamir
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107-110
The Impacts of Presenting New Words in Semantically-Related Sets on Vocabulary Learning
Xingrong Wang
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111-118
Genre Analysis and Writing Skill: Improving Iranian EFL Learners Writing Performance through the Tenets of Genre Analysis
Nazanin Naderi Kalali, Kian Pishkar
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119-130
Syntactic Dependencies and Verbal Inflection: Complementisers and Verbal Forms in Standard Arabic
Feras Saeed
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131-140
The Function of Native American Storytelling as Means of Education in Luci Tapahonso’s Selected Poems
Widad Allawi Saddam, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya
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141-145
Arabic and English Consonants: A Phonetic and Phonological Investigation
Mohammed Shariq
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146-152
On (De) Personification in Prophet Muhammad’s Tradition
Ahmad El-Sharif
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153-164
Important Points on Rewriting Old Stories for Children
Maryam Jalali
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165-169
Ego is a Hurdle in Second Language Learning: A Contrastive Study between Adults and Children
Shumaila Abdullah, Javed Akhter
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170-173
An Etymological Study of Mythical Lakes in Iranian Bundahišn
Hossein Najari, Zahra Mahjoub
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174-182
Rhetorical Impact through Hedging Devices in the ‘Results and Discussion’ Part of a Civil Engineering Research Article
Minoo Khamesian
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183-186
Analysing ESL Students’ Perceptions towards Oral Communication for Social and Occupational Purposes
Fauzilah Md Husain, Malini Ganapathy, Akmar Mohamad
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187-194
An Investigation into Undergraduates’ Errors in the use of the Indefinite Article at Omar Al-Mukhtar University
Ahmed Gaibani
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195-200
Effectiveness of Oral Proficiency in English for Secondary Schools (OPS-English) Programme in Improving English Language Vocabulary among Secondary School Students
Manesha Kaur Rajendra Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh, Lin Siew Eng
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201-208
Book Review: Backhaus, Peter (2007): Linguistic Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters; 158 Pages ISBN 9781853599460
Omar Alomoush
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209-210