AWEJ Volume.4 Number.2 June 2013 P.1
Contents
| No. | Article Title & author/s | Pages |
| 1 | Team of this issue | |
| 2 | Contents | 1 |
| 3 | Letter from the editor | 2-3 |
| 4 | Research Paradigms: The Novice Researcher’s Nightmare Marwa Elshafie | 4-13 |
| 5 | A Framework for Developing the Basic Academic Competencies in ESL Programs Manal Mohammad T. Qutub | 14-31 |
| 6 | Culture and Approaches to Learning and Teaching Josephine O’Brien & Sadia Ali | 32-45 |
| 7 | Constructing a Dialogic ESL Classroom: Questioning the Standard Stephanie Sample | 46-58 |
| 8 | Combating the Production of Stereotypes in Undergraduate Writing Alex Henry | 59-76 |
| 9 | Project Works as Vehicles for Authenticity in the Graduate Business School of Sfax, Tunisia Soufiane Trabelsi | 77-92 |
| 10 | Exploring the use of ARS-keepad Technology in English Vocabulary Development Beena Giridharan | 93-105 |
| 11 | Students’ Attitudes and Perceptions towards Learning English Amal Ali Alkaff | 106-121 |
| 12 | Teaching the Regular and the Irregular Verbs through a Cultural-based Literary Discourse in an ESL Grammar Classroom Ream Fathi Odetallah | 122-136 |
| 13 | Closing Techniques for Face-to-Face Conversation in Saudi Educational Institutes Khadija Abdullah Al-Amoudi | 137-151 |
| 14 | Vocabulary Development Strategies for the L2 Classroom Elham Yahia & Richard Sinatra | 152-159 |
| 15 | 15Investigating the Impact of Constructive Planning as Both a Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategy: A Case Study of Third-year LMD Students of English at the University of Constantine 1, Algeria Rania Boudaoud | 160-172 |
| 16 | Collaborative Student Writing in the Literature Classroom Ayesha Heble & Sandhya Rao Mehta | 173-184 |
| 17 | Assessing the Arabic-English Bilingual Reading Competences Jessica Midraj & Sadiq Midraj | 185-199 |
| 18 | Age Factor and Learning English as a Foreign Language at the Elementary and Intermediate Levels at Jarash Province Schools in Jordan Ahmad Fayez Mutlaq Al-Zu’be | 200-212 |
| 19 | Personality Characteristics as Predictors of Affective Availability to Interact Across Cultures Solodka Anzhelika Konstantinovna | 213-219 |
| 20 | Developing Students’ Writing Abilities by the Use of Self Assessment through Portfolios Saliha Chelli | 220-234 |
| 21 | Constructive Alignment Vs Experiential Learning for ESL Students Ethel Reyes-Chua | 225-245 |
| 22 | Challenges of Conducting Research in a Digital Age Jinjin Lu, Wei Fan & Ruiting Wu | 246-254 |
| 23 | Communication Achievement and the Need for Language Reform Mohammed Hiddas | 255-269 |
| 24 | Tense and Aspect Acquisition in L2 English by Native speakers of Arabic Mahfood Alsalm | 270-282 |
| 25 | Promoting Literacy and Writing Proficiency through a Reading-Based Method Nassira Boudersa | 283-297 |
| 26 | The Linguistic Adjustments of the ACT-R Model to the Acquisition of the Simple Past Tense in the Arab Learners of English Context Anwar Mourssi | 298-309 |
| 27 | Knowledge Construction and Gender in online Debates Ines Khalsi | 310-326 |