Vol 4, No 1 (2017)

Table of Contents

Articles

A Genre Analysis of Research Article Abstracts Written by Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
Fadi Maher Al-Khasawneh
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1-13
Reading Scientific Texts: Some Challenges Faced and Strategies Used by EFL Readers
Zahra Akbari
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14-28
A Survey of the Effect of Recast and Prompt by Teachers on Iranian EFL Student’s Grammar with High and Low Anxiety Level
Alireza Khojastehnejad, Parvaneh Zareipur
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29-47
The Effect of Resumption as a Local Cue on the Production of Pseudo-clefts in L2
Ashraf Montaseri
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48-56
An Investigation of the Effectiveness of English Teachers’ In-Service Training on Iranian Third Grade High School Students’ English Achievement
Roghayeh Rasoli Madani, Majid Pourmohammadi
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57-74
Resource Limitations in Aphasiac Sentence Production Based on Temporal Window Hypothesis
Abbas Abdolahzadeh, Parvane Zareipur
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75-90
Developing a Taxonomy of Vocabulary Learning Strategies for an ESP Context
Zahra Akbari
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91-108
A Linguistic Analysis of Para-jokes and Meta-jokes in Persian Verbal Humor
Bahareh Masaeli, Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza
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109-115
The Relationship between Mother Tongue, Age, Gender and Critical Thinking Level
Seyed Ehsan Afsahi, Akbar Afghari
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116-124
Impact of L1 Transfer on L2 Pronunciation of Iranian High School Third Graders: The Case of Consonant Cluster
Hassan Rahimi Varzeghani, Akram Yousefi Varzeghani
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125-133
Expressions of Compassion in L1 and L2: A Study of Persian EFL Learners
Sayyed Amir Sheikhan
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134-146
A Linguistic Analysis of Some Competency-Based Approach (CBA) Course-Books Used in Beninese Secondary Schools
Ayodele Adebayo Allagbé
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147-165
Discourse Analysis and the Development of English Listening Comprehension for Non-English Fields of Studies in Iran
Yasser Ebrahimi
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166-177
The Impact of Presenting Semantically Related Clusters of New Words vs. Semantically Unrelated Clusters on Iranian Intermediate EFL learners' Vocabulary Acquisition
Saeide Shiri, Ehsan Rezvani
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178-189
An Investigation into Farsi Translation of Children’s Poetry of Shel Silverstein According to Nida’s Theory
Azadeh Nemati, Elham Afzalifard
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190-198
A Comparative Study of Apology Strategy Use by Iranian and German EFL Learners: Gender Differences in Focus
Kourosh Keshani, Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza
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199-212
An Investigation into the Relationship between Kolb’s Learning Styles and Learning Idioms among Iranian ELT Students
Elaheh Majd, Kian Pishkar
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213-225
The Order of Using Persian Interrogative Words Used by One to Three-year-old Children: A Longitudinal Case Study
Ali Taghinezhad, Ahmad Khalifah, Mohammad Sharif Hosseini
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226-233
The Impact of Gender on Teacher's Feedback in Iranian Upper-intermediate EFL Classroom Discourse
Faezeh Navabfard, Ehsan Rezvani
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234-247
Mediated Discourse Analysis: An Investigation into Noe-rooz Discourse Traditions in Iranian Culture
Zohreh Kashkouli
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248-259
Willingness or Unwillingness? The Investigation of Iranian EFL Learners’ Tendency toward Willingness to Communicate
Ali Goldoust, Hamed Ranjbar
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260-267
Investigating Teachers’ Communicative Styles in EFL Context: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
Hossein Rahmanpanah
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268-289
A Corpus-based Study of Human-translated vs. Machine-translated Texts: The Case of Ellipsis in English-Persian Translation
Milad Maleki, Hossein Heidari Tabrizi
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290-303
A Comparison of the Effects of Teacher's Speaking Accuracy Vs. Fluency on EFL Learners' Oral Skill
Sakineh Karimy, Kian Pishkar
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304-312