The Iranian EFL Journal February 2014

The Iranian EFL Journal Volume 10 Issue 1 February 2014

• Foreword. Dr. Paul Robertson and Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh

1. The Investigation of the Effects of EFL Teachers’ Constructive Feedback-Based Journal Writing (Log) on Developing Teaching Styles. Gholamreza Abbasian, Delaram Pourmandnia and Behnam Behfrouz
2. Unaccusativity in English and Persian: A Contrastive Analysis. Ali Akbar Ariamanesh and Mohammad Javad Rezai
3. EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards Their Writing Abilities: Their Impact on Writing Instruction. Masoud Zoghi and Fereshteh Asadzadian
4. A Critical Study around the Contribution and Significance of Culture Component in Iranian EAP and EFL Contexts. Fatemeh Bagheri
5. The Effect of CALL Program on Expanding Lexical Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners. Leila Babapour Azam
6. Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Learners’ Beliefs toward FLL: A Case Study of Undergraduate EFL Learners at Sheikhbahaee University. Reza Dehghan Harat
7. Iranian University Students’ Level of Language Classroom Anxiety and its Relationship to Age, Gender and Discipline Variables.  Javid Elyasi
8. Angela’s Ashes: Class Struggle and the Dream of Betterment. Hamid Farahmandian
9. Source Text Analysis and Translating Ideology: Investigating “Sexism” in Sidney Sheldon’s “The Stars Shine Down”. Nadia Ghazanfari Moghaddam, Azadeh Sharifi Moghaddam and Masoud Sharififar
10. The Representation of Social Actors in Bahrain Conflicts: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Stories in International Press. Javad Hayatdavoudi and Zahra Amirian
11. Discourse of War in English & Persian: A CDA Cognitive-Metaphoric Approach. Maryam Hesabi Dehbaneh and Zahra Hesabi Dehbaneh
12. Iranian Pre-university Students’ Beliefs toward Their Use of English Vocabulary Learning Strategies. Fateme Jahedi Esfanjani and Parisa Salamzadeh
13. The Effects of Communicative Task-Based Language Instruction on the Comprehension of the ESL Learners in Iran. Navisa Lesani
14. Assessing Metacognitive Awareness and Learning strategies as Positive Predictors in Promoting L2 Learners’ Reading Comprehension. Farahman Farrokhi and Seyyed Fariborz Pishdadi Motlagh
15. Iranian EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Traditional, Innovative and Modern Teaching Approaches: GTM, Communicative and Task- Based Approaches in Focus. Parisa Riahipour, Saeed Ketabi and Azizollah Dabbaghi
16. Teaching Phrasal Verbs: A Fresh View from Cognitive Linguistics. Elham Sadri and Mohammad Reza Talebinejad
17. The Relationship between willingness to communicate outside the classroom and ideal L2 self. Abbas Moradan and Omid Salavati
18. A Contrastive Study of the Rhetorical Properties of Geography and Environmental Planning Research Articles’ Introductions across English and Persian. Simin Sattarpour
19. Translation of Culture-Bound Elements of English Literary Texts into Persian: A Case Study on J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. Zohreh Eslami and Hassan Shahabi
20. The Correlational Analysis between Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing, and Reading and Speaking Mean Band IELTS Scores Achieved by 2011 from the Top 41 Countries (Academic). Goodarz Shakibaei and Shahla Keivan
21. Exploring Learners’ Social and Cultural Identification Opportunities in EFL Textbooks Developed by Western and Iranian Authors. Davud Kuhi, Ali Sorayyaei Azar and Nazanin Shafiee
22. Exploring the Washback Effect of the University Entrance Exam on Language Teaching Activities in High Schools of Iran: A Grounded Theory. Farideh Samadi and Seyed Ali Ostovar Namaghi
23. Story Retelling and the EFL Vocabulary Learning Process. Mohammad Reza Ghorban
24. Teaching ESL to the “Neglected” Adult Learner:  The Case for Andragogy. Fariba Hooshyar
25. The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Listening Comprehension Skill among Intermediate EFL Learners in Iran. Farzin Fahimniya and Fatemeh Khoddamy Pour
26. Translation of Proper Names: A Study of the Holy Qur’an. Habibollah Mashhady and Masoumeh Yazdani Moghadam

Read abstract of each article here.