Volume 7. Issue 4 August 2011.

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Foreword:

Welcome to the fourth edition of the year 2011. The Iranian EFL Journal is a bi-monthly journal from 2011, and this has created a golden opportunity for its readers to access to more articles. The journal has had strong growth over the last few years with a monthly readership now exceeding 2500 readers. For a journal examining the topic of EFL/ESL, Literature and Translation studies, the growth and readership has been pleasing. Statistically, readers are coming from almost 80 countries.

In the fourth issue of volume 7 we present 15 articles for your reading. In the first article, Behzad Ghonsooly, Khalil Ghazizadeh and Rahil Sheibani have done a research on genre-based analysis of English patient information leaflets (PILs) and examining the reading strategies used by skilled and novice readers in eading PILs. In the second article, acquisition of resumptive pronouns in interrogative embedded clauses by Persian learners of English is explored by Mohammad Javad Rezai. In the third article, 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 is presented by Farman Faham. The fourth article which discusses the relationship between spelling and fluency in EFL writings: a study based on the AIMS six trait analytic writing rubric – official scoring guide is presented by Farimah Farrahi Moghaddam. In the fifth article, Zahra Fakher Ajabshir, has studied the evaluation of "English for the students of management" written by, Farhad Moshfeghi.

In the sixth article, Anita Vali Mohammadi and Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri, have studied the relationship between emotional intelligence, motivation and the vocabulary size of EFL students. In the seventh article, the relationship between Reid’s learning styles and Oxford’s language learning strategies in adult EFL learners of Iran Language Institute is studied by Maryam Salehi and Mohamad Sadegh Bagheri. In the eighth article of the issue, comparative genre analysis of newspaper editorials across English and Persian is done by Hamid Allami and Zohreh Shiamizadeh. In the ninth article of the issue, Gholam-Reza Abbasian and Esmaeil Hassan Oghli have discussed the evaluation of Iranian EFL textbooks: a study of learner- teacher’s criteria compatibility). In the tenth article of the issue, investigating the primacy of aspect in the performance of Iranian EFL learners is done by Mohammad Ali Farsidoust, Firooz. Sadighi and Mahboobeh Saadat.

In the next article, reconsidering speed test with a focus on grammar, is done by Kamal Heidari Soureshjani. In the next article, on the role of consciousness-raising tasks in learning grammar: a learner perspective, is studied by Abbas Ali Rezaei and Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur. In the next article, the acquisition of English locative constructions by Persian speakers: syntax-semantic interface, is done by Mohammad Javad Rezai and Saeedeh Avand. In the next article of the issue, Fatemeh Pourjafari discusses a comparative study  from ancient fatalism to modern determinism. And in the last article of the issue, Mahbube Keihaniyan, presents teaching methodology, motivation, and test anxiety: comparison of Iranian English private institute and high School.

We hope you enjoy this edition and look forward to your readership.