Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CASES IN WRITING/TRANSLATION:
  • Contrastive rhetoric: old and new directions / Ulla Connor
  • Contrasting Arabic and German school essays / Martin Harfmann
  • Rhetoric in English narratives of native speakers and second-language learners / Miranda Y.P. Lee
  • The Qur'anic definite article in translation: the case of citing animals / Mohammed Farghal, Izzedin al-Zou'bi
  • DIGLOSSIA:
  • Verbal fluency in bidialectal settings: the case of the Greek Cypriot dialect / Andreas Papapavlou
  • Classical and colloquial Arabic: are they used appropriately by non-native speakers? / Mona Kamel Hassan
  • Diglossic switching in the Egyptian speech community: implications for teaching spoken Egyptian Arabic / Reem Bassiouney
  • STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION:
  • The debate over grammar instruction: accommodating both positions / Georgette Ioup
  • A constructivist view of learning strategies / Zuhal Okan
  • A learner-based approach to writing improvement: using "repertory grid technique" as a learning tool / Hülya Yumru, Jülide Inözü
  • PRAGMATICS:
  • Politeness and pragmatic failure: speakers' intentions and hearers' perceptions in L2 apologies / Mona M. Osman, Paul B. Stevens
  • Hyperbolic expressions in Egyptian Arabic and British English / Ola Hafez
  • Hedging in Arabic: a pragma-syntactic perspective / Nahwat A. El-Arousy.