International periodicals index with special emphasis on European periodicals and topics in the humanities and social sciences.

PAPERS IN THIS ISSUE: On the impact of differential item functioning on test fairness: A Rasch modeling approach (1-14) by Hossein KARAMI; The effect of focalized narrative texts on reading comprehension of EFL learners at Arak University (15-30) by Mahsa YAZDANI GHAREHAGHAJ & Zargham GHAPANCHI; Explicit instruction of form in a task-based learning environment (31-54) by Joy WEIGAND; Gender differences in Iranian EFL learners' textese and digitalk (55-72) by Azizeh CHALAK; The effect of mediational artifacts on EFL learners' reading comprehension performance (73-90) by Parisa DAFTARIFARD; EFL learners' proficiency level and critical thinking: The case of Iraqi university students (91-108) by Abbas Ali REZAEE & Lihadh MUBARAK; Inferring logical relations by male and female EFL learners (109-130) by Esmaeel ABDOLLAHZADEH

PAPERS : Public health reasoning: The contribution of pragmatics (Louise CUMMINGS, pp. 1-18); Indirectly reporting grammatical, lexical and morphological errors (Alessandro CAPONE, pp. 19-36); Exploring attitude and test-driven motivation towards English at Chinese universities (Junping HOU, Hanneke LOERTS & Marjolijn H. VERSPOOR, pp. 37-60); Toward a taxonomy of errors in Iranian EFL learners' basic-level writing (Mohammad Ali SALMANI NODOUSHAN, pp. 61-78); A structural move analysis of research article introduction sub-genre: A comparative study of native and Iranian writers in applied linguistics (Arezou PASHAPOUR, Farid GHAEMI & Mohammad HASHAMDAR, pp. 79-106); Teaching English pronunciation beyond intelligibility (Frans HERMANS & Peter SLOEP, pp. 107-124); Complexity and likely influence of teachers' and learners' beliefs about speaking practice: Effects on and implications for communicative approaches (Edgar Emmanuell GARCÍA-PONCE, Troy CRAWFORD, M. Martha LENGELING & Irasema MORA-PABLO, pp. 125-146)

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)

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