Research Paper
Gender-based DIF across the Subject Area: A Study of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam
Gender-based DIF across the Subject Area: A Study of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam

Hossein Barati; Ali Reza Ahmadi

Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, Pages 1-26

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.413

Abstract
  This study aimed at investigating differential item functioning (DIF) on the Special English Test of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam (INUEE). The effect of gender and ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Impact of L1 Equivalents Versus Context on Vocabulary Recall of Pre-university EFL Students
The Impact of L1 Equivalents Versus Context on Vocabulary Recall of Pre-university EFL Students

Majid Hayati; A Shahriari

Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, Pages 27-51

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.414

Abstract
  This study was conducted to compare the impact of two vocabulary learning techniques, namely context learning and translation learning, on vocabulary recall of sixty pre-university ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Introductory Essay: Richard Wright's Covert Challenging of Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism
The Introductory Essay: Richard Wright's Covert Challenging of Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism

Ahad Mehrvand

Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, Pages 53-72

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.415

Abstract
  Richard Wright’s introductory essay to his collection of short stories Uncle Tom's Children describes hidden forms of resistance against Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism. The essay ...  Read More
Research Paper
"What We Feel, and What Doth us Befall": A Study of Letter Motif in Macbeth 

Helen Ouliaeinia

Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, Pages 73-85

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.416

Abstract
  The present essay is an attempt to scrutinize Macbeth's letter to Lady Macbeth formalistically with much care and seek hints which may lead us back and forth to understand what befell ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Analysis of English and Persian Academic Written Discourses in Human Sciences: An Evolutionary Account
An Analysis of English and Persian Academic Written Discourses in Human Sciences: An Evolutionary Account

Naser Rashidi; Hajar Ghaffarpour

Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, Pages 87-105

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.417

Abstract
  The present paper focused on the sociocultural explanations of rhetorical differences between English and Persian and was based on the contrastive genre analysis of Applied Linguistics ...  Read More
Research Paper
Motivational and Learning Effects of Computer-aided Procedures on Students' Reading Comprehension
Motivational and Learning Effects of Computer-aided Procedures on Students' Reading Comprehension

Aram Reza Sadeghi; Nahid Soltanian

Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, Pages 107-139

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.418

Abstract
  Reading development and instruction is a pedagogical priority at all academic levels. Historically, in the educational field, numerous efforts have been made to facilitate the complex ...  Read More
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The Role of Conceptualizable Agent in Overpassivization of English Unaccusatives in Iranian English Majors
The Role of Conceptualizable Agent in Overpassivization of English Unaccusatives in Iranian English Majors

Rahaman Sahragard; Firooz Sadighi; a Abbasi Bagherianpour

Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, Pages 141-162

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.419

Abstract
  The present study is an attempt to explore the effect of one of the pragmatic elements of discourse (namely the conceptualizable agent) on overpassivization of English unaccusative ...  Read More
Research Paper
Engaging Strategies in Adam Bede
Engaging Strategies in Adam Bede

Samira Sasani; Amrollah Abjadian; Farideh Pourgiv; Parivn Ghasemi

Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, Pages 163-188

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.420

Abstract
  One of the narrative strategies employed in different ways by men and women writers is the presentation of narrator. The significance of narrator is so much that it differentiates between ...  Read More