Many readers and critics regard Khaled Hosseini's fiction as an insider's account of life in Afghanistan. This article, however, aims to depict how Hosseini's novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, reinforces the ...

An in-depth investigation of vocabulary depth knowledge by lexical researchers plays an important role in language teaching and learning. However, little is known of empirical research related to the correlation and ...

The widespread use of English language raises concerns about maintaining the mutual intelligibility across different nonnative English varieties. Some have viewed nonnative English varieties as distorted forms of English ...

Scrutinizing translated and non-translated texts in a language reveals the characteristics of translationese. Additionally, thematic structure is among the most widely used tools for doing so; therefore, the research aim ...

Since language and culture are inextricably intermingled, scrutinizing the indispensable role of the language of a speech community can yield significant information about its culture. Conceptualized under an overarching ...

Since an understanding of reading attitude is pivotal to reading encouragement, this study investigated the multidimensionality of recreational reading attitude among Jordanian EFL students. Thus, a survey of recreational ...

This study was designed to trace the developmental path of the nominal and pronominal referring systems in the production of an English-Arabic bilingual child. The child's spontaneous speech was recorded, and data were ...