Arab World English Journal
AWEJ Volume.3 Number.3 Sept.2012                                                                                                 pp. 1 – 2

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Contents

NO. Article Name Pages

1

Contents 1-2

2

Letter from the editor 3

3

Critical Thinking and the Language Factor: The Case for the English
Language Learner
4-17

4

Developing an Instrument that Tests for English-Language Personality 18-34

5

Sources of Influence Affecting Adult Arab EAP Students’ Critical Thinking 35-45

6

Towards a Multidimensional Framework for a large-scale Needs Analysis: A Pedagogical Perspective 46 – 56

7

Investigating Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution Strategy Use of EFL Learners in Reading Relative Clauses 57 – 77

8

The Literary text Wants Readers, not Readings: The Implications of Louis Rosenblatt’s Transaction Theory in the Literature Class 58 – 105

9

The Appropriateness in Advice-Giving From a Cross-Cultural Perspective 106 – 122

10

Drawings as a Pathway to Productive Literacy 123 – 137

11

The Importance of Participatory Evaluation in Achieving Quality and Accreditation 138 – 153

12

Promoting Cooperative Learning in ELT Classes through the Use of CoRT Thinking Tools 154 – 167

13

Phonology and Applied Linguistics Meet in Teaching Listening 168 – 189

14

Beginning Omani EFL Teachers’ Perspectives on the Challenges They Encounter 190 – 203

15

The Acquisition of the Simple Past Tense in the Context of Arab Learners of English 204 – 222

16

Shell Nouns on the Move: Expert and L2 Student Abstracts in Applied Linguistics 223 – 245

17

Silence and Politeness in Jordanian Society 246 – 269

18

Exploring the Viability of Aptitude Tests in the EFL Placement Test: In Omani Context 270 – 276

19

Book Review: Global English and Arabic 277 – 278
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