| Volume 7-6 December 2011.
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Foreword. Dr. Paul Robertson & Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
1-Reza Pishghadam and Shima Ghahari. The Impact of Glossing on Incidental Vocabulary Learning: A Comparative Study.
2- Mahboobeh Mahboobi and Sarjit Kaur. A Survey of Iranian EFL University Students’ Motivationand Interest in Intensive Reading.
3- Mehdi Shokouhi Shourmasti. The Impact of Critical Friends Groups on Teacher Cognition A Sociocultural View of L2 Teacher Education.
4- Reza Barzegar, Seyed Mahmoud Mirtabatabaie and Hassan Moradi. On the Relationship between Multiple Intelligences and Performance on Reading Proficiency Item Types
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5- Ali Malmir, Saied Najafi Sarem and Ayat Ghasemi. The Effect of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) vs. Content-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) on the Iranian Intermediate ESP Learners' Reading Comprehension.
6- Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh. Use of Myth(s) in Postmodern American Drama Case Study: the Plays of Sam Shepard.
7- Laleh Namdar and Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri. The effect of teaching etymology on the comprehension and retention of English
technical vocabularies among vocational school students of Bandar Abbas.
8- Javad Zare’. The Relationship between First Language Reading Skill and Second Language Reading Skill.
9- Mahdi Rajaee Nia. Effects of intensive reading on the mastery of Grammar in Iranian junior high school students.
10- Fatemeh Hemmati and Parisa Nasseri Karimvand. A critical discourse analysis of five English language classes in Iran.
11- Samad Mirza Suzani, Lotfollah Yarmohammadi and Mortaza Yamini. A Critical Review of the Current Situation of Teaching ESP in the Iranian Higher Education Institutions.
12- Asghar Bastami Bandpay. A Contrastive Analysis of English and Persian Sentence Structure.
13-Farahman Farrokhi and Fattaneh Abbasi Talabari. The Study of the Effectiveness of Focus on Form Instruction on Vocabulary and Grammar Learning.
14- Hooshang Khoshsima and Salman Rostami Gohari. On The Translation of Metaphor: A Corpus-based Study of Three Persian Translations of Othello.
15- Batoul Ghanbari and Saeed Ketabi. Practicing a Change in an Iranian EFL Curriculum: from Ivory Tower to Reality.
16- Masood Siyyari. The Big Five Personality Traits: A New Horizon of Research in Language Teaching.
17- Amir Reza Asiyaban, Morteza Yamini and Ghaffar Tajalli. L1 and L2 Language Stores Dependency and Their Connection Facilitation through Translation.
18- Marzie Heydari and Kourosh Akef. Investigating the Relationship between Peer assessment and Teacher assessment of the Composition Writing among Iranian EFL learners.
Volume 7-5 October 2011.
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1- Foreword: Dr. Paul Robertson & Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
2- Reza Ghafar Samar, Mohammad Bagher Shaabani and Mohammad Nabi Karimi. Overpassivization of Unaccusative Verbs as a function of Discourse Pragmatics
and Verb type: Testing the fit in Persian
3- Alireza Jamshidnejad. Learners’ Performance in and Beliefs about Problematic L2 Oral Communication in an EFL Context: A Qualitative analysis
4- Zahra Fakher Ajabshir. The Effect of Verbal and Visual Techniques on Vocabulary Achievement of Iranian EFL Students
5- Mehri Jalali. Evaluation of an EFL English Coursebook
6- Fateme Dehghan and Ali Akbar Jabbari. Animacy in the Acquisition of the Argument Structure: Psych Verbs
7- Reza Aghaie and Stefanie Pillaie. On the Explicit Instruction of Cognitive and Metacognitive Reading Strategies in Reading Performance and Self-Efficacy
8- Hadi Salehi and Manoochehr Jafarigohar. The Effectiveness of Mnemonic Strategies in English Vocabulary Learning: A Case of Iranian High School Students
9- Ali Panahi. Relationship between Multiple-Intelligences and Learning Grammar in EFL Settings
10- Mohammadsaleh Sanatifar and Mohammad Reza Hashemi. A Contrastive Study of “Pro-form” Substitutions in English and Persian With Reference to Translation Practice
11- Mehry Haddad Narafshan and Mortaza Yamini. Policy and English Language Teaching (ELT) in Iran
12- Reza Dehghan Harati. Learners’ Beliefs, Teachers’ Beliefs: Are They Different?
13- Jaber Ahmadi. Evaluation of Integrative Grammar TeachingThe Case of English Two-word verbs
And Adjective /verb + Preposition For Iranian EFL Learners
14- Saeed Khojasteh Nam. Iran and Teaching English in the Third Millennium
15- Biook Behnam and Akram Azarmi. Critics of Brown and Levinson politeness theory
16- Mahdi Dahmardeh and David Wray. Culture and English Language Teaching in Iran
Volume 7-4 August 2011.
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1. Foreword: Dr. Paul Robertson and Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
2- Behzad Ghonsooly, Khalil Ghazizadeh and Rahil Sheibani. Genre-based Analysis of English Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) and Examining the Reading Strategies Used by Skilled and Novice Readers in Reading PILs
3- Mohammad Javad Rezai. Acquisition of resumptive pronouns in interrogative embedded clauses by Persian learners of English
4- Farman Faham. The Impact of Background Classical Music on Teaching Reading Comprehension to Iranian EFL Learners: The Effect of Mozart Sonata on Iranian EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension Learning and Performance
5- Farimah Farrahi Moghaddam. The Relationship between Spelling and Fluency in EFL Writings: A study based on the AIMS six trait analytic writing rubric – official scoring guide
6- Zahra Fakher Ajabshir. Evaluation of "English for the Students of Management"
7- Anita Vali Mohammadi and Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri. Relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Motivation and the Vocabulary Size of EFL Students
8- Maryam Salehi and Mohamad Sadegh Bagheri. The Relationship between Reid’s Learning Styles and Oxford’s Language Learning Strategies in Adult EFL Learners of Iran Language Institute
9- Hamid Allami and Zohreh Shiamizadeh. Comparative Genre Analysis of Newspaper Editorials Across English and Persian
10- Gholam-Reza Abbasian and Esmaeil Hassan Oghli.
Evaluation of Iranian EFL Textbooks: A study of
Learner - Teachers Criteria Compatabilty.
11- Mohammad Ali Farsidoust, Firooz. Sadighi and Mahboobeh Saadat. Investigating the Primacy of Aspect in the Performance of Iranian EFL Learners
12- Kamal Heidari Soureshjani. Reconsidering Speed test with a Focus on Grammar
13- Abbas Ali Rezaei and Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur. On the Role of Consciousness-Raising Tasks in Learning Grammar: A Learner Perspective
14- Mohammad Javad Rezai and Saeedeh Avand. The Acquisition of English Locative Constructions By Persian Speakers: Syntax-Semantic Interface
15- Fatemeh Pourjafari. From Ancient Fatalism to Modern Determinism: A Comparative Study
16- Mahbube Keihaniyan. Teaching Methodology, Motivation, and Test Anxiety: Comparison of Iranian English Private Institute and High School
Volume 7-3 June 2011.
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1. Foreword: Dr. Paul Robertson and Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
2- Mahmood Salimi, Mansoor Tavakoli and Saeed Ketabi. Testing EFL learners’ Knowledge of English Collocations: an Exploratory Factor
Analysis Approach
3- Azar Hosseini Fatemi, Reza Pishghadam and Zahra Heidarian. Gender Delineation in High school and Pre-university ELT Textbooks:
A Criterion-Oriented Approach to Text Analysis
4- Iman Alizadeh and Hadi Farjami. Recounting and Fine-Tuning Academic Word List for Four Academic Fields
5- Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh. A Tireless Experimenter in modern drama
6- Mohammad Salehi. The acquisition of preposition pied piping and preposition stranding by Iranian learners of English
7- Afsaneh Baharloo. The Anxiety about L2 Reading Tasks
8- Mehdi Mardani and Ahmad Moinzadeh. The Effect of Explicit Training of Metacognitive Vocabulary Learning Strategies
on Recall and Retention of Idioms by Advanced EFL Students
9- Hassan Fartousi. A Semantic Analysis of interchangeability and Synonymy of the Discourse Markers But and However
10- Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani and Seyedeh Masoumeh Ahmadi. The Impact of Authentic Listening Materials on Iranian EFL Learners’ English Listening Comprehension
11- Fateme Layeghi. Form and Content in the Argumentative Writing of Extroverted and Introverted Iranian EFL Learners
12- Mohamad Reza khodabakhsh. The Effect of Modified speech on listening to Authentic Speech
13- Peyman Rajabi, Gholam Reza Kiany and Parviz Maftoon. The Impact of ESP In-service Teacher Training Programs on Iranian ESP Teachers’ Beliefs, Classroom Practices and Students’ Achievements
14- Ali Akbar Jabbari and Amrollah Fazlinezhad. Acquisition of English Syllable Structure as a Foreign Language by Iranian Farsi and Arabic Speakers
15- Zargham Ghabanchi and Sahar Zahed Alavi. The Relation between Paragraph Organization and The Topic Progression Used in English Paragraphs Selected from Native Books on Teaching Writing
16- Shahla Janghorban and Saeed Ketabi. An Investigation of E-mail Writing Style in Persian Learners of English: The Effects of Social Distance and Closeness on the Formality of the Written E-mails
Volume 7-2 April 2011.
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1- Foreword: Dr. Paul Robertson & Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
2- Reza Pishghadam. Introducing Applied ELT as a New Approach in Second / Foreign
Language Studies
3- Keivan Zahedi and Mohammad Ali Shams. Exploring the Iranian Candidates’ Use of
Formulaic Sequences in the Writing Module of IELTS
4- Masoud Sharififar and Mahboubeh Akbarzadeh. An Analysis of Demotivators in English Classes for Iranian university students
5- Ehsan Ghassemi and Nasser Shahsavari. What is not working? A study of students’ perceptions of problems and concerns over English language learning at Islamic Azad University, Hajiabad Branch
6- Aram R. Sadeghi and Ali Asadi. Critical Discourse Analysis in an EFL Classroom
7- Sima Khezrlou, Ali Akbar Khomeijani and Farahani Fateme Layeghi. Foreign Language Learners' Processing of Relative Clause Ambiguity: A Relevance Theory Perspective
8- Seyyed Mohammad Reza Amirian and Reza Bagheri Nevisi. Overt Pronoun Constraint in Persian
9- Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani and Seyedeh Masoumeh Ahmadi. The Effect of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation on Iranian EFL Learners’ Language Learning
10- Sanaz Ghobadi Mohebi and Ebrahim Khodadady. A study on Iranian University Students’ and Teachers’ Beliefs about Language Learning
11- Naser Atasheneh and Ahmad Izadi. Refusals in English and Persian: A pragmalinguistic investigation
12- Ali Rahimi and Nabi. A Ebrahimi. Guiding a Persian EFL Instructor to Create Individualized Classroom Environments: Novel Opportunities for ELT Practitioners
13- Reza Keshavarz and Rasool Roozegar. Assessing Iranian Students’ English ability: Semantic Competence vs. Pragmatic Competence
14- Mahboobeh Abhaji Ezabadi. The Effect of Image Generation on Remembering Story Details in Iranian EFL learners
15- Roya Khoii and Nazli Shamsi. The Effect of the Method on the Trait: Investigating the Function of No-Error Options in Grammar Error-Identification Items in Admissions
Tests
16- Mansoor Fahim and Shahla Azarnioushi. The Relationship between Critical Thinking and Deductive/Inductive Teaching of Grammar to Iranian EFL Learners
Volume 7-1. February 2011.
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Table of Contents
1- Foreword: Dr. Paul Robertson & Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
2- Khalil Motallebzadeh and Neda Heirany. Thematic Clustering of L2 Vocabularies: A Technique for Improving Reading Comprehension Ability
of Iranian Intermediate EFL Adult Learners
3- Nasser Rashidi and Hamid Reza Zare Asl. A Comparative In-Depth
Evaluation of Two Pre-University English text books
4- Bahman Gorjian, Syyed Rahim Moosavinia and Parisa Shahramiri. Effects
of Oral Summary of Short Stories on Male/Female Learners' Speaking
Proficiency: High vs. Low Achievers
5- Ebrahim Khodadady, Sara Shirmohammadi and Farima Talebi. Brainstorming and its Effect on Critical Thinking and Speaking Skills
6- Hamid Ashraf. Research Articles’ Critical Reading: Developing an Effective
Approach in an EFL Context
7- Mahdieh Arjomand and Masoud Sharififar. The Most and Least Frequently
Used Vocabulary Learning Strategies among Iranian EFL Freshman Students and its Relationship to the Gender
8- Majid Nemati and Amin Shahini. The Relationship between Extroversion and Introversion and the Oral Proficiency of Iranian EFL Learners
9- Mehdi B. Mehrani and Ghasem Modarresi. The Nature of Interactive and Intervening Strategies in Scaffolding EFL Reading Skill
10- Maryam Shirin Zarii and Mehdi Mardani. Two Types of Text Modification and Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Simplification vs. Elaboration
11- Ehsan Rassaei and Mansoor Tavakoli. Corrective Feedback in the L2 Classroom: Matched-gender and Mixed-gender Dyads in Focus
12- Sepideh Ahmad Khan Beigi and Hamed Ahmadi. A Contrastive Comparison of Structural and Rhetorical Patterns of Persian and English Argumentative Essays
13- Shirin Abadikhah and Zahra Mosleh. EFL Learners' Proficiency Level and
Attention to Linguistic Features during Collaborative Output Activities
14- Fateme Layeghi. Single vs. Multiple Prompts in Writing
15. Bahareh Khazaeenezhad and Mohammad Reza Talebinezhad. Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive-Affective Reading-Based Courses: The Case of
Reading Open-Ended Stories
16- Hossein Askari and Moussa Ahmadian. How Many Reading Comprehension Strategies to be Taught in a Semester?
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