Research Paper
Referential, Quasi, and Expletive Subjects in L2 English of Persian Speakers
Referential, Quasi, and Expletive Subjects in L2 English of Persian Speakers

Ahmad Alibabaee; Manizhe Youhanaee; Mansoor Tavakoli

Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, Pages 1-25

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.496

Abstract
  The present study sought to investigate the acquisition of referential, quasi and expletive subject pronouns, three different types of obligatory subjects in English, by adult Persian ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Relative Effectiveness of Input and Output-oriented Tasks with Different Involvement Loads on the Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners
The Relative Effectiveness of Input and Output-oriented Tasks with Different Involvement Loads on the Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners

Parviz Maftoon; Marzieh Sharifi Haratmeh

Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, Pages 27-52

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.497

Abstract
  Framed in a cognitive approach to task-supported L2 vocabulary learning, the present study used a pedagogical approach to investigate the relative effectiveness of tasks with different ...  Read More
Research Paper
Acquisition of English Unergative and Unaccusative Structures by Persian EFL Learners
Acquisition of English Unergative and Unaccusative Structures by Persian EFL Learners

Mohammad Javad Rezai; Ali Akbar Ariamanesh

Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, Pages 53-85

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.498

Abstract
  The acquisition of argument structures has been studied by a variety of second language acquisition scholars within the past two decades (Atay, 2010; Can, 2009; Chay, 2006, & Kras, ...  Read More
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The Effect of Dynamic Assessment on EFL Learners' Acquisition of Request and Apology
The Effect of Dynamic Assessment on EFL Learners' Acquisition of Request and Apology

Zia Tajeddin; Farhad Tayebipour

Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, Pages 87-118

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.499

Abstract
  Originating from Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory, dynamic assessment (DA) proposes a novel approach to second language acquisition (SLA) research according to which a dialectical ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Ordering Process of Narrative in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Ordering Process of Narrative in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Akbar Faridpour; Helen Ouliaeinia

Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, Pages 119-133

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.500

Abstract
  Regarding the literary historical debates, one of the main concerns of modern historiography is the way of representing the concept of reality within the framework of a coherent narrative, ...  Read More
Research Paper
Affiliation and Filiation: The Nation-Family in Scott’s Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein
Affiliation and Filiation: The Nation-Family in Scott’s Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein

Sarah Catrin Ilkhani

Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, Pages 135-153

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.501

Abstract
  This article studies Sir Walter Scott’s use of the family-as-nation trope in Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein. The importance of this trope in his figuration of nationhood is discerned ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Absence of ‘Paucity’ & ‘Momentariness’: Two New Components of Magical Realism in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum
The Absence of ‘Paucity’ & ‘Momentariness’: Two New Components of Magical Realism in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum

Hamid Reza Kasikhan

Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, Pages 155-169

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.502

Abstract
  This article presents the question whether it is correct to classify Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum as a work of magical realism. A brief scrutiny of the elements of magical ...  Read More
Research Paper
Islam and Modernity: A Study of John Updike's Terrorist (2006)
Islam and Modernity: A Study of John Updike's Terrorist (2006)

hossein Pirnajmuddin; Maryam Salehnia

Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, Pages 171-186

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.504

Abstract
  The images of Muslims in media, literature and politics have been mostly black and white portrayals of a people alien to modernity, technology, civilization and progress. Since the ...  Read More