International Journal Of Language Studies Ijls Volume 92

Language acquisition socialization: Sociocognitive and complexity theory perspectives; by Assia BAGHDADI (pp. 1-22); The impact of background knowledge on test performance: A multivariate G-theory approach; by Seyyed Mohammad ALAVI & Hossein KARAMI (pp. 23-44); A pragmatic analysis of diminutives in Palestinian society; by Mahmood K. M. ESHRETEH (pp. 45-62); Second language teacher education: Preparing teachers for the needs of second language learners; by Aseel KANAKRI (pp. 63-94); Exploring a novice Chinese EFL teacher's writing beliefs and practices: A systemic functional perspective; by Xiaodong ZHANG (pp. 95-118); A pragma-semiotic analysis of the Catholic bishops' communiqué on the Ebola epidemic: Impact on the University of Ibadan Catholic faithful; by Patience Obiageri SOLOMON-ETEFIA & Gerald Okechukwu NWEYA (pp. 119-142); Book Review by Azizeh Chalak (pp. 143-151).

PAPERS IN THIS ISSUE: A rhetoric-thematic analysis of surah "Waqi'a" (1-16); Studying Chinese as a foreign language: Learner attitudes and language learning (17-40); Iconicity in the syntactic structure of Mandarin Chinese (41-66); The impact of English versus Persian songs on Iranian EFL learners' mastery of English letters (67-88); The role of culture in cooperative learning (89-120); The interface between ESP, genre analysis, and rhetorical structure analysis (121-160); Four key focus on form options (161-171); Book Review (172-185)

(1-30) by Hansong CAI & Luna Jing CAI; (31-58) by Heiko WIGGERS; (59-82) by Lozzi Martial MEUTEM KAMTCHUENG; (83-100) by Jack Jinghui LIU; (101-108) by Fereshteh AHANGARI & Masumeh MAHLUJIZADEH MAHABADI; (109-130) by Fitria A. MARFUATY & Ribut WAHYUDI; (131-146) by Milisi SEMBIRING; (147-154) by Keith ALLAN & Mohammad Ali SALMANI NODOUSHAN; (155-160) by Azizeh CHALAK.

Percentage of L1-based errors in ESL: An update on Ellis (1985) (François Pichette & Justyna Leśniewska, pp. 1-16); Exploring novice and experienced Iranian EFL teachers' beliefs representations: A more vivid picture (Saeed Mehrpour & Meisam Moghaddam, pp. 17-50); Movie-generated EFL writing: Discovering the act of writing through visual literacy practices (Nargess Hekmati, Sue-san Ghahremani Ghajar & Hossein Navidinia, pp. 51-64); Parental perceptions toward and practices of heritage language maintenance: Focusing on the United States and Canada (Feng Liang, pp. 65-86); You could so easily od like: Clause final and other pragmatic functions of like in Liverpool English speech (Manel Herat, pp. 87-112); A comprehensive survey on the etymology of three Avestan words: 'Pairikā', 'Xnąϑaiti-' and 'Gaṇdarəβa-' (Farrokh Hajiani & Mohsen Mahmoodi, pp. 113-130); A semiotics representation of outdoor HIV/AIDS pictorial campaign messages in Benin Metropolis, Nigeria (Patience Obiageri Solomon-Etefia, pp. 131-158)

Papers in this issue: Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan & Hamed Montazeran, The book review genre: A structural move analysis; Jessica L. Reid, Questioning a world standard English; Huda Al-Mansoob, Socio-cultural and religious boundaries: Can teaching cognitive stylistics be fully implemented in Arab/Muslim universities?; Mohammed Ayodeji Ademilokun, Nigerian undergraduate football fans' discourse: Visuals as Communication tools; Ricard Viñas-de-Puig, Mayangna Yulbarangyang Balna & Elena Benedicto, Linguistic and technical training as a community empowerment tool: The case of the Mayangna linguists' team in Nicaragua; Derya Fazila Agis, Gender and politeness: Politeness strategies in the popular Turkish series "Avrupa Yakası" ("European Side"); Yuliana Natsir, Language encounters in the workplace of Banci community; Reza Mobashshernia, Book Review; Forough Rahimi, Book Review

PAPERS IN THIS SPECIAL ISSUE ON ESP: Editorial (1-12); Parallel ESAP courses: What are they? Why do we need them? (13-30); Translation, ESP and corpus studies: Bridging the gap in a French context (31-52); Multimodal L2 Composition: EAP in the digital era (53-72); Mapping specialized domains through a wide-angled interdisciplinary approach: The case of British higher education and research (73-94); An interdisciplinary approach to ESP: The milieu, discourse and culture of American technological risk companies (95-132); A multi-dimensional analysis of legal American English: Real-life and cinematic representations compared (133-150); E-portfolios as professional identities for university learners in an English for Communication and Media program (151-166)