issue 1 publication date 2010-11-01

• Elements of Critical Context Studies
• Applicability Issues with TBLT in EFL Contexts
• On the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Directive Speech Acts Preference
• In-Service Teacher Development Programs and EFL Teaching Practice in High Schools
• An Investigation of the Relationship between Gender and Different Strategies of Expressing Request in English and Persian Films
• The Sense of Loss: Postmodern Fragmented Identity in Three Plays of Sam Shepard
• Philosophy in John Gardner’s Grendel