Table of Contents

From the Editors

• The Relationship between the Construct of Assertiveness and Reading Comprehension Ability: A Case of Iranian Intermediate by Mansoor Fahim & Fatemeh A. Kharrazi, IAU, Iran

• A Comparative Study of Iranian EFL Teachers’ Use of Teachers’ Manuals Versus Teachers’ Experience on Perception and Treatment of Reading Skill by Maryam Talebi, IAU, Iran

• Learning Difficulty in Terms of Explicit Learning by Mohammad Khatib, ATU & Sepideh Mirzaee, IAU, Iran

• Learning of Language through Literature by N.M.Shalika Banu, Bharathiyar University

• The Impact of Blended Online Learning on Iranian EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Achievement by Narges Soltani Tehrani & Omid Tabatabaei, IAU, Iran

• A Closer Look at Some Reasons behind Code-switching: A Case of Iranian EFL Classrooms by Hadi Hamidi & Saeid Najafi Sarem, IAU, Iran

• The Use of Media Sources and Authentic Materials for Language Teaching in ESL Classrooms by Tungesh G.M.

• The Impact Of English On Tamil During The British Colonial Rule (1796 – 1948 ) In Jaffna, Sri Lanka by Vairamuthu Suntharesan, Sri Lanka

• An Investigation into Some Similarities and Differences of Persian and English Head Parameters Based on X-bar Syntax by Zeinolabedin Rahmani & Ali Alizadeh, IAU, Iran

• English Language Learner in Primary Schools of Gujarat: A Sociolinguistic Perspective by Kirankumar I. Chauhan, HMPIETR, India

• Graffiti and Language Teaching by Nishant S Joshi, HMPIETR, India

• Critical Discourse Analysis and Fairclough’s Model by Sepideh Mirzaee & Hadi Hamidi, IAU, Iran.