Research in EFL and Literature Context: Challenges and Directions

Edited by Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević and Marija Mijušković

ISBN: 978-618-5065-73-7, 618 pages

First published in 2014 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Research in EFL and Literature Context: Challenges and Directions: An Introduction Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević and Marija Mijušković		i
Part 1: Literary and Cultural Studies
1.	Advanced Research Projects in the Humanities: New Trends on Literature, Languages & Linguistics Studies Carlos Ceia	3
2.	Plato and Liberal Education Maia Shukhoshvili	15
3.	Words-for-world: Language, Hermeneutics and the Cosmos Ruhtan Yalçıner	21
4.	Towards a Hermeneutic Pragmatics of Fictional Communication Tahir Wood	33
5.	Epistemological Holism and Meaning Holism Aihua Wang and Binzizi Dong	43
6.	Literature: A Bridge to Identity Parastoo Salavati	55
7.	Mocking Epic and Tragic Patterns in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea	63
8.	Imperfect Blending for Intended Readers’ Mental Spaces: A Cognitive Approach to Reception Elena Domingues Romero	71
9.	A List of Persian Mythical Women Seyedeh Saideh Sanjari	79
10.	Comparison between Seven Stages of Mithraism and Seven Stages of Iranian Theosophy in Persian Poems Latifeh Salamat Bavil	89
11.	Hayy Ibn Yaqzan and Robinson Crusoe, Re-reading two Classic Survival Narratives Nabila Marzouk	101
12.	The Massacre at Paris: Between English and French Perspectives Abdulaziz Al-Mutawa	113
13.	Poetry of F. Hölderlin in M. Heidegger’s Vision Alena Apaeva Yurievna	125
14.	Rhetoric of L. Sterne’s “A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy” Liudmila Salieva	135
15.	Humiliation and Social Negotiation: A Study of Pride and Prejudice Truska Muhamad Alaadin	147
16.	T.S. Eliot’s Mission of Salvation through Myths He Jiangsheng	155
17.	“Pinkwomansmelling” and “Womanpinksmelling” Tell the Old Verities of the Heart: A Relevance-theoretic Approach to Faulkner’s Compounds Baya Bensalah	167
18.	The Motifs of Blindness and Invisibility within the Influence of Postwar Existentialism as Reflected in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Yildiray Cevik	187
19.	‘A Society’: An Aristophanic Comedy by Virginia Woolf Lucía P. Romero Mariscal	197
20.	Lifting the Veil off the Intimate in Jordanian Women’s Literature Omnia Amin	209
21.	A Comparative Approach to Fictions Named Malone Dies and to Lie Dying Elmas Sahin	219
22.	Margaret Drabble’s Affair with the Past in The Witch of Exmoor, The Peppered Moth and The Seven Sisters Marta Lupa	231
23.	The Manipulation of Simulacra to Create a Public Image in Salman Rushdie’s Novel Shame Jūratė Radavičiūtė	243
24.	My Words + Your Words = Our World@Literature.global Graciela Boruszko	253
25.	Impossible Balance: Textual Instability in the Handmaid’s Tale Yunling Yu	265
26.	Narrative Journalism in America and Russia Svetlana Bozrikova	275
Part 2: Language Studies
27.	Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española (RAE’s New Grammar of the Spanish Language). A Great Step towards the Panhispanization of the Language. The Case of the Verbal Periphrases Cristina Garcia Gonzalez	287
28.	Acquisition of Gender in Russian as L3 by Native Speakers of Turkish Elena Antonova Unlu and Anna Lozovska	299
29.	Of Mice and Men and other Irregular Plural Forms Eugen Zaretsky, Benjamin P. Lange, Harald A. Euler and Katrin Neumann	313
30.	Indirect Modification in Situ: Non-movement Analysis of Adjective Ordering Yurie Okami	325
31.	Development of the Language use Inventory: An Assessment for Pragmatic Skills in Portuguese Cristiana Guimarães, Anabela Santos and Leandro Almeida	339
32.	Phonological Awareness in two Transparent Languages: The Impact of Turkish Phonological Awareness on the Development of Greek Phonological Awareness Helen Kyratji and Chryso Pelekani	347
33.	Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990: Inconsistency and Homographs Francisco Miguel Valada	361
Part 3: Methodology
34.	Perspectives of In-service and Pre-Service Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) toward the Teaching of Grammar: Focus on Form vs. Focus on Forms Ana Paula de Araujo Cunha	375
35.	A Tale of Expectations and Perceptions: A Case Study of Non-native English Speaking Students in Masters Level Tesol Program Beidi Li	385
36.	Educational Policy of Mauritius Yesha Devi Mahadeo Doorgakant	399
37.	The Perspectives of EFL Learners on the Video use in Language Classrooms Burak Tomak and Gizem Verda Furuzan	411
38.	Digital Portfolio. Improving Portfolio in High Education Levels Pedro Jesús Molina Muñoz	425
39.	English Learning Generators: Neurolinguistic Programming and Learning Styles in Foreign Language Acquisition Eva Zanuy Pascual	439
40.	Learning Strategies: Perceptual Styles and Brain Hemisphericity Sabatin Ibrahim	449
41.	The Impact of Awareness of Vocabulary Learning Strategies on Reading Comprehension among Pre-intermediate EFL Learners Bahman Gorjian, Abdolmajid Hayati and Farokh Lagha Heydari	459
42.	Identifying and Classifying the Readability Levels of Turkish Texts Gökhan Çetinkaya and Gülsün Leyla Uzun	469
43.	Analysis of Communication Strategies in EFL Context Huei-Chun Teng	485
44.	ESP Course Evaluation Gul Eksi and Meral Uzun Balci	497
45.	For Type a Syllabi: A Connectionist, Emergentist View Siamak Mazloomi	511
46.	Literature and the Effectiveness of EFL Students’ Writing and Thinking Skills Prapaipan Aimchoo	525
47.	Students’ Attitudes towards Bilingual Children’s Literature in Hebrew and Arabic Lea Baratz and Hannah Abuhatzira	539
48.	A Literary/Creative Blog as a Active Tool to Teach Literature Natalia Gómez, Emily Fairless, Penney Johnson and Christine Sauer	551
49.	From the Myth of Translation to the Task of the Translator: A Multimedia Application for Translation Teaching and Learning Grace Fang	561
50.	Patronage and Translation: A Case Study Bai Liping	569
51.	Capacitating Community Newspapers: Effective English Language Techniques in the Training of Journalism Students at Walter Sisulu University – South Africa Adele Moodly, Aniela Batschari and Keshina Fish	581
Editors		593
List of Contributors		595