Volume 31, Issue 2
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Islam and Modernity: A Study of John Updike's Terrorist (2006)
(Shiraz University, 2012-09-01)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 end of the Cold War and the onset of ...
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The Absence of ‘Paucity’ & ‘Momentariness’: Two New Components of Magical Realism in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum
(Shiraz University, 2012-09-01)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 realism, particularly Authorial Reticence and concept ...
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Referential, Quasi, and Expletive Subjects in L2 English of Persian Speakers
(Shiraz University, 2012-09-01)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 speaking L2 learners of English at ...
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Acquisition of English Unergative and Unaccusative Structures by Persian EFL Learners
(Shiraz University, 2012-09-01)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, 2007, among others). In the present study, ...
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The Relative Effectiveness of Input and Output-oriented Tasks with Different Involvement Loads on the Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners
(Shiraz University, 2012-09-01)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 involvement loads on the vocabulary ...
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The Effect of Dynamic Assessment on EFL Learners' Acquisition of Request and Apology
(Shiraz University, 2012-09-01)Originating from Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, dynamic assessment (DA) proposes a novel approach to second language acquisition (SLA) research according to which a dialectical relationship is envisaged between instruction ...
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The Ordering Process of Narrative in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(Shiraz University, 2012-09-01)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, a reality that is only achievable ...
