Vol 7, No 5 (2016)

Table of Contents

Articles

A Cognitive Semiotic Study of Students' Reading a Textless Image versus a Verbal Image
Roaa Hasan Ali, Shatha Aslaadi
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1-13
Short-term and Long-term Retention of Vocabulary through Authentic Subtitled Videos
Nader Asadi Aidinlou, Alireza Moradinejad
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14-22
Investigating the Perceptions of Pakistani English Language Learners on Language Learning Anxiety in EFL Classroom
Nasreen Bhatti, Shumaila Memon, Habibullah Pathan
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23-34
A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Apology Strategies Employed by Iranian EFL Learners and English Native Speakers
Elham Abedi
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35-44
Friendship through Interaction and Interaction through Friendship: Manifestations of Positive Politeness and Footing Changes in the Interaction of Two Friends Playing Chess
Yasumasa Shigenaga
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45-58
The Characteristics of Romanticism in the Children’s Poem in Iran
Ali Armaghan, Reza Shajari, Maryam Jalali, Alireza Fouladi
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59-63
Dismantling the Prison-House of Colonial History in a Selection of Michelle Cliff’s Texts
Abid Larbi Labidi
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64-69
The Human Brain Does Not Need High Levels of Motivation to Learn a Foreign Language: Motivation Has Had its Day
Kieran Green
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70-77
Pragmatic Study of Directive Speech Acts in Stories in Alquran
Rochmat Budi Santosa, Joko Nurkamto, Nashruddin Baidan, - Sumarlam
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78-84
An Aspect of Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism: A Comparative Study between the Traces of British Imperialism in English Literature and the Counterpoint of Anti-Colonialism in Bengali Literature of 19th Century
Farhana Haque
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85-90
Lexical Testing and the Reliability of the Modified Vocabulary Knowledge Scale
Debbita Tan, Ambigapathy Pandian, Paramaswari Jaganathan
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91-96
Communicative Language Teaching: A Practical Scenario in the Context of Bangladesh
Md. Kawser Ahmed
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97-104
The Use of Frame Story in Kashmira Sheth’s Boys without Names
Faisal Laee Etan Alobeytha, Sharifah Fazliyaton binti Shaik Ismail, Aspalila bt. Shapii
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105-111
Impact of WhatsApp on Learning and Retention of Collocation Knowledge among Iranian EFL Learners
Zahra Ashiyan, Hadi Salehi
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112-127
Promoting Intercultural Understanding among School Students through an English Language Based Reading Programme
Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh, Fatin Najwa Amelia binti Marsani, Paramaswari Jaganathan, Ahmad Sofwan Nathan Abdullah, Premalatha Karupiah
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128-136
Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth and the Reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Israa Hashim Taher
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137-141
A Study of Students’ Attitude toward Teachers’ Affective Factors in EFL Classrooms
Nahid Amini Ranjbar, Mehry Haddad Narafshan
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142-146
The Relationships between Social Class, Listening Test Anxiety and Test Scores
Omid Talebi Rezaabadi
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147-156
Syed Manzoorul Islam’s Postmodern Tales: A Study
Md Abdul Momen Sarker, Tusar Talukder, Tusar Talukder
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157-161
Critical Discourse Analysis on Chinese Racial Pride Underlying the Malaysian National Identity in “Proud to be born a Chinese”
Khoo Wei Cyn, Malini Ganapathy
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162-174
“The Presence of the Past”: A Historical Reading of Bizhan Najdi’s “A Plant in Quarantine”
Ahad Mehrvand, Amin Pourhassan
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175-183
Vocabulary Memorization Strategies among Arab Postgraduate English Foreign Language Learners
Fouad Hussein Al-Qaysi, Ahmad Affendi Shabdin
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184-196
Pastiche in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy
Maedeh Zare’e, Razieh Eslamieh
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197-207
Semiotics of Power and Dictatorship in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Later Novels
Yémalo, C. AMOUSSOU
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208-221
Investigating the Female Subaltern, Colonial Discourse and False Consciousness: A Spivakian Marxist-Postcolonialist Reading of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease
Jalal Mostafaee
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222-226
'Discourse on the Go': Thematic Analysis of Vehicle Graffiti on the Roads of Egypt
Mohamed El-Nashar, Heba Nayef
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227-239
Maximising Asian ESL Learners’ Communicative Oral English via Drama
Chamkaur Gill
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240-246
Reflective Blogfolios in the Language Classroom: Impact on EFL Tertiary Students’ Argumentative Writing Skills and Ways of Knowing
Ammar Abdullah Mahmoud Ismial
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247-261
Afriphone Literature as a Prototypical form of African Literature: Insights from Prototype Theory
Adams Bodomo
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262-267
Renaissance Epyllions: A Comparative Reading of Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander, Thomas Lodge’s Scylla’s Metamorphosis and Francis Beaumont’s Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
Yazdan Mahmoudi
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268-274