The Iranian EFL Journal Volume 11 Issue 3 June 2015

Volume 11 Issue 3 June  2015

1. Violation of Conversational Maxims: Drivers’ Excuses toward Traffic Police’s QuestionsSaman Ebadi, Ahmed Rawdhan Salman and Abdulbaset Saeedian
2.  Contrastive Analysis of Sentence Patterns in English and Persian: A Review ArticleMahdieh Noori and Ali Akbar Jabbari
3.  The Effect of Using Creative Drama on Developing Oral Proficiency of Iranian Advanced EFL LearnersAhmad Mohseny and Delaram Firooz
4. Investigating the Relationship between Anxiety and Writing Performance among Iranian EFL LearnersNaghmeh Jebreil, Akbar Azizifar, Habib Gowhari and Ali Jamilinesari
5. A Gender-Based Study of Compliments and Compliment Responses in Persian MoviesMaliheh Khodabakhshi and Moslem Zolfagharkhani
6. The Effect of Massed/Distributed Sentence Writing on Perception of EFL Learners: A Qualitative StudyElaheh Sotoudehnama and Fattane Maleki Jebelli
7. Responses to mediation for six levels of reading comprehension questions based on Bloom’s taxonomyNava Nourdad
8. Contribution of SLA to the Brain Study: A Plausible LookNima Shakouri and Marzieh Rezabeigi
9. Chaos/Complexity Theory in Applied LinguisticsAdel Dastgoshadeh and ShahinAhmadishad
10. Bilingual vs. Trilingual; The Case of Learning Strategy Use in an EFL ContextAli Asghar Ahmadishokouh, Muhammed Parviz and Masud Azizi
11. Iranian EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards Implementing Computer Assisted Language Learning in Writing ClassesSedighe Vahdat and Atusa Gerami
12. Iranian EFL Learners’ Notions of the Role of Imagery in Learning Idiomatic Expressions and its Application in Pedagogical ContextsFatemeh Ghanavati Nasab
13. Enhancing Listening Comprehension: The role of Metacognitive strategy InstructionJafar Izadpanah, Abuzar Momen and Mohsen Chenari
14. Investigating a Relationship between Computer Literacy and Language Proficiency: A Survey of EFL Students in SanandajReza Khani and Mohsen Kamangar
15. A Comparison between Distance Education and Conventional University EFL Students Regarding Their Use of Meta-cognitive StrategiesSaman Khaksefidi and Habib Shirzaei
16. The Impact of Cognates on Target words in vocabulary retention of Iranian Monolingual and Bilingual EFL StudentsAbbas Bayat and Muhammad Oveidi
17. Task-Induced Engagement among Iranian EFL Learners’ Vovabulary RetentionMousa Faramarzzadeh Khaneqah and Seyyed Fariborz Pishdadi Motlagh
18. Manipulation in Poetry Translation: A Case Study of Shakespeare’s Selected SonnetsMasoud Sharififar and Asma Sabermahani
19. The Effect of Teaching Paraphrasing Strategy on Reading Comprehension of Iranian EFL LearnersAkram Shayani and Mehran Davaribina
20. Exploring Role of Academic Backgrounds in EFL Teachers’ Language Assessment LiteracyZahra Shafiee
21. The Role of Negative Evidence in First Language AcquisitionAshraf Haji Maibodi
22. TQA of Morgan’s International Construction Contract Management Based on House’s ModelKourosh Akef and Zhila Afshin
23. Cohesion Shifts and Explicitation in English Texts and Their Persian Translations: A Case Study of Three NovelsAzita Salimi and Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
24. A Contrastive Pragmatic Study of Speech Act of Complaint between American Native Speakers of English and Iranian EFL LearnersJavad Khalilpour and Ali Zolfagharian
25. Issues in Implementing a Task-Based MethodologyReza Bagheri Nevisi
26. A Sociopragmatic Study of Discourse Markers’ Use across Different Genders: Case Study of Iranian EFL LearnersJavad Ahmadi Fatalaki
27. Appraisal in Applied Linguistics Research Articles Written by Native and Nonnative English Speakers over the Course of TimeAasa Moattarian and Gholam Reza Zarei
28. The Effects of Teaching English Skills in Public Schools and Private Institutes on Student’s Language AbilitiesNader Assadi Aidinlou and Saeed Mojarradi
29. Investigating the Notion of Face in Asking for a Favor in Everyday Conversations via SMS; A Case of PersianFatemeh Ghanavati Nasab and Abbas Eslami Rasekh
30. A Comparative Study of Idioms Translation in three English-Persian Dictionaries with an Orientation of Naturalness, Quality, and StyleAli Akbar Khomeijani Farahani and Atefeh Mashayekhi Kerahroodi
31. Apology Strategies Used by Azeri-Persian Bilinguals in Persian by Ali Akbar Ansarin and Abdolreza Khalili
32. Absurdism in Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettMahdieh Noori
33. The Effect of Paradigmatic Presentation of Pronominal System on EFL LearnersAli Reza Bakhshi Haddadan, Ali Asghar Ghasemi and Mehdi Moharami
34. Target Language and Reading Comprehension; The Study of Different Proficiency LevelsMahmoud Mehrabi and Nafise Radi