Vol 2, No 1 (2013)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5430/elr.v2n1

English Linguistics Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2013

Table of Contents

Articles

An Investigation of Chinese University Students’ Foreign Language Anxiety and English Learning Motivation
Meihua Liu, Xiaoming Zhang
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Verification Theory of Meaning and the Concept of Time and Space: Implications for Einstein Relativity Theory
Jerome P. Mbat, Emmanuel Iniobong Archibong
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Analyzing Teaching Skill Contest as A Genre System to Decode the Code of Excellent Pedagogies: A Comprehensive Functional Perspective of Realization, Instantiation, Individuation, and Genesis
Ning Liu
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Factors that Enhance English Language Teachers’ Motivation in Jordanian Secondary Schools
Bader S. Dweik, Nosaybah W. Awajan
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A Speech Act Analysis of the Acceptance of Nomination Speeches of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Chief M.K.O. Abiola
Samuel Alaba Akinwotu
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The Laughter-eliciting Mechanism of Humor
Zhihui Wu
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The Effect of Exposure on Chinese Learners’ Processing of English Wh-movement Sentences
Hulin Ren
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Evaluating KWL Charts Strategy in relation to Iranian EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Culturally Unfamiliar Texts
Mona Roozkhoon, Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri, Mortaza Yamini
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Performance of Francophone Secondary School Leavers in English Structure and Written Expression
Jean-Paul Kouega, Steohane Celeste Piewo Sokeng
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A Comparative and Contrastive Study of Sadness Conceptualization in Persian and English
Mohammad Reza Moradi, Shahrzad Pirzad Mashak
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Agricultural Extension and Rural Development ESP Textbook Evaluation in Bu Ali Sina University, Iran
Lotfollah Karimi, Bahador Sadeghi, Farnaz Behnam Nia, Adel Esmaeeli Salumahaleh, Khalil Mirzaei, Adeleh Farokhzadi
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Dialect and the Learning of English as a Second Language in Kenya
Margaret Gatavi Njeru
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Social Beliefs for the Realization of the Speech Acts of Apology among Jordanian EFL Graduate Students
Ala’Eddin Abdullah Ahmed Banikalef, Marlyna Maros
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