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Volume 4. Issue 2. December 2009
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Foreword by Katalin Egri Ku-Mesu

1. Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf. A Pragmatic Analysis of a Teacher’s Code

2. Kagan Buyukkarci & Bilal Genc. Discourse Markers: The Case of ‘and’ in the Speech of Turkish Speakers of English

3. Anupam Das. The Distribution of Aspirated Stops and /h/ in Bangla: An Optimality Theoretic Approach

4. Ahlam M. Al-Harbi. Jargonizing and Abstracting the ‘War on Terror’: The ‘Self’

5. Azam Karimi & Firooz Sadighi. Towards a Projection-based Lexico-Syntactic Interface in Sentence Construction

6. Hong Wang & Liying Cheng. Factors Affecting Teachers’ curriculum implementation

Special Edition, September 2009, Language, Culture and Identity in Asia.

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Foreword by Francesco Cavallaro, Andrea Milde & Peter Sercombe
1. Will Baker. Language Identity and Culture through English as a Lingua Franca in Asia : Notes from the Field.

2. Ruth M.H, Wong. Identity Change. Overseas Students Returning to Hong Kong

3. Jules Winchester. The Self Concept, Culture and Cultural Identity: An Examination of the Verbal Expressions of the Self Concept in an Intercultural Context.

4. Reza Ghafar Samar & Babak Mahdavy. Identities in the Headlines of Iranian National Newspapers.

5. Rula L Diab. Lebanese University Students' Perceptions of Ethnic, National and Linguistic Identity and Their Preferences of Foreign Language Learning in Lebanon.

6. Nazli Baykal. The Discursive Construction of Ethnic Identity : Sulukule Case, Turkey

7. Maya Khemlani David, Francesco Cavallaro & Paolo Coluzzi. Language Policies- Impact on Language Maintenance and Teaching : Focus on Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines.

8. Francesco Cavallaro & Tania Rahman. The Santals of Bangladesh

Volume 3. Issue 2. Augustl 2008

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Foreword by Francesco Cavallaro
1. Farahman Farrokhi, Ali Akbar Ansarin and Zhila Mohammadnia. Preemptive Focus on Form: Teachers’ Practices across Proficiencies

2. Caroline C. Hwang. Pragmatic Conventions and Intercultural Competence

3. Ylva Olausson. The Head as an Element in Swedish Compound Words

4. Zuraidah Mohd Don, Gerry Knowles and Janet Yong. How Words can be Misleading: A Study of Syllable Timing and ‘Stress’ in Malay

5. Raphiq Ibrahim. Does Visual and Auditory Word Perceptions have a Language-Selective Input? Evidence from Word Processing in Semitic Languages.

Volume 3. Issue 1. April 2008

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Foreword by Andrea Milde

1.   Mari Lehtinen. Downgrading the Importance of What Is Said via Prosodic Cues:A Comparative Perspective on the Use of Stylised Intonation Contours in French and in Finnish

2.   Yasunari Fujii. The Asymmetrical Relationship Between the Active and Passive Voice: Implications for Teaching Japanese-to-English Translation of　Specialized Scientific Texts

3.   Mahboobeh Morshedian. The Role of Initial English as Foreign Language Proficiency in Lexical Attrition/Retention of Iranian Learners: Is Productive or the Receptive Word Knowledge of Learned Nouns More Likely to be Lost?

4.   Elsa Gonzalez-Álvarez & Susana M. Doval-Suárez. Testing the Cognitive Categorisations of at in Native and Non-Native English Speakers. Evidence from a Corpus Study

5.   Weimin Zhang & Guiling Hu. A Corpus-Based Study of Subjunctive Mood Patterns: Implications for EFL Instruction

6.   Anna Feldman. Tagset Design, Inflected Languages, and N-gram Tagging

Volume 2. Issue 3. December 2007.

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Foreword by Biljana Cubrovic

1. Georgia Andreou. Phonological Awareness in Bilingual and Trilingual Schoolchildren

2. Kazuya Saito. The Influence of Explicit Phonetic Instruction on Pronunciation Teaching in EFL settings: The Case of English Vowels and Japanese Learners of English

3. Joanne Rajadurai. Capturing L2 Spoken English: Methodological Challenges

4. Reza Ghafar Samar & Goodarz Alibakhshi. The Gender Linked Differences in the Use of Linguistic Strategies in Face-to face Communication

5. Ying-chien Cheng. The Effects of Two Teaching Methodologies on the Hierarchy of Difficulty of Restrictive Relative Clauses among Taiwanese Tenth Graders

6. Pham Phu Quynh Na. Translating Topic-Comment Structures of Vietnamese into English

7. Shan-fang Guo. Is Idiom Comprehension Influenced by Metaphor Awareness of the Learners?

8. Giao Quynh Tran. The Nature of Pragmatic and Discourse Transfer in Compliment Responses in Cross-Cultural Interaction

Volume 2. Issue 2. August 2007.

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Foreword by Helmut Daller

1. Forood Sepassi and S. Aryadoust. Testing the Natural Order Hypothesis on the Framework of the Competition Model
2. Shu-Chu Chen and Shu-Hui Eileen Chen. Interlanguage Requests: A Cross-Cultural Study of English and Chinese
3. I-Ping Wan. On Correlating Aphasic Errors with Speech Errors in Mandarin
4. Anastasia Khudyakova. Metaphors Following the Model ‘N of a N’
5. Fariba Mobini. Farsi-speaking Learners’ Differential Command of Definite Types: A Cross-linguistic Study

Volume 2. Issue 1. April 2007

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Foreword by Dr. John Adamson.

1. Larisa Nikitina and Fumitaka Furuoka. Beliefs about Language Learning: A Comparison between Novice and Interm ediate Level Students Learning Russian at a Malaysian University
2. Hessa Al Falasi. Just Say “Thank You”: A Study of Compliment Responses
3. Mohammad Ali Salmani-Nodoushan. Politeness Markers in Persian Requestives
4. Mohammad Reza Talebinezhad and Giti Mousapour Negari. The Effect of Explicit Teaching of Concept Mapping in Expository Writing on EFL Students’ Self-regulation
5. Farzaneh Khodabandeh. A Contrastive Analysis of English and Persian Newspaper Headlines
6. Daniel Nkemleke. “You will come when?”The pragmatics of certain questions in Cameroon English
7. Raphiq Ibrahim. Does Exposure to Second Spoken Language
Facilitate Word Reading Ability?
8. Yan Wang. A Functional Study of the Final Particle mono
in Japanese Conversational Discourse

Volume 1. Issue 3. November 2006

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Foreword by Dr. John Adamson.

1. Camilla Vizconde. Attitudes of Student Teachers towards the use of English as Language of Instruction for Science and Mathematics in the Philippines
2. Francesco Cavallaro. Language Dynamics of an Ethnic Minority Group: Some Methodological Concerns on Data Collection
3. Raphiq Ibrahim. Do Languages with Cognate Relationships have Advantages in Second Language Acquisition?
4. Mina Rastegar. Causal Modeling - Path Analysis: A New Trend in Research in Applied Linguistics
5. F. Sadighi and S. Zare. Is Listening Comprehension Influenced by the Background Knowledge of the Learners? A Case Study of Iranian EFL learners
6. Liu Jing, Evie Tindall and Deanna Nisbet. Chinese Learners and English Plural Forms

Volume 1. Issue 2. June 2006

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Foreword by Dr. John Adamson.

1. Payung Cedar. Thai and American Responses to Compliments in English
2. Ali Rahimi and Rahman Sahragard. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Euphemization and Derogation in Emails on the Late Pope
3. Patil. Z.N. On the Nature and Role of English in Asia
4. Nelya Koteyko. Corpus Linguistics and the Study of Meaning in Discourse

Volume 1. Issue 1. January 2006

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Foreword by John Adamson.

1. Roger Nunn. - The Pragmatics of Cooperation and Relevance for Teaching and Learning
2. Hamideh Jamshidiha and Hamideh Marefat. L1 Persian Attrition
3. Forood Sepassi and Amin Marzban. Anaphor Resolution in Implicit and Explicit Causality Structures ofthe Active and Passive Types
4. Hamid Allami. A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Griping: The Case of Iranian Students