Arab World English Journal 
          
         AWEJ  
                      INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ISSN: 2229-9327 
                          بيرعلا لماعلا في ةييزكلنالا ةغللا لةمج 
      AWEJ Volume.3 Number 4. December, 2012 
  
           
           
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                                 AWEJ                          Arab World English Journal 
                                                                           INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ISSN: 2229-9327 
                                                                                                  بيرعلا لماعلا في ةييزكلنالا ةغللا لةمج 
                              AWEJ Volume.3 Number.4, 2012                                                                                      pp. 1 – 2  
                               
                                                                                                                   Contents 
                                  NO.  Article Name                                                                                                                                                          Pages 
                                     1        Contents                                                                                                                                                          1-2 
                                     2        Letter from the editor                                                                                                                                              3 
                                     3        The Knowledge Base of Teaching English as an Additional Language: A                                                                                             4-18 
                                              Framework for Curriculum and Instruction 
                                     4        Leadership Perspectives and Influences: A Conversation with Five Leaders                                                                                       19-35 
                                              in TESOL 
                                     5        Dependency Relations in the Syntactic Structure of Tunisian Arabic                                                                                             36-57 
                                     6        Native and Non-native English Teachers in the Classroom: A re-                                                                                                58 – 71 
                                              examination 
                                     7        Electronic Portfolios as an Effective Tool for Learning and Skills                                                                                            72 – 96 
                                              Development with Omani Students 
                                     8        The familiar & strange ‘Other’ – A Portfolio Assessment of Intercultural                                                                                    97 – 112 
                                              Competence 
                                     9        Peer Collaboration for Text Comprehension among Taiwanese University                                                                                       113 – 133 
                                              Learners 
                                   10         Investigating College Students’ Competence in Grammatical Collocations                                                                                     134 – 159 
                                              Self-Perceptions and Practices of a Group of Omani Cooperating Teachers                                                                                    160 – 178 
                                   11         for Supervising EFL Student Teachers’ Grammar Teaching during 
                                              Practicum 
                                   12         LMD New System in the Algerian University                                                                                                                  179 – 194 
                                   13         Prospective EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of the Teaching Practice Experience                                                                                  195 – 213 
                                              at AUST 
                                   14         Teaching Literature to Foreign Language Learners as a Medium for Cultural                                                                                  214 – 232 
                                              Awareness and Empathy 
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                           15      Designing Multiculturalism-Based ELT Syllabus for Civics Study                                                       233 – 246 
                                   (MBESCS) 
                           16      Drawing the Profile of Algerian Students of English as Dictionary Users                                              247 – 267 
                           17      Instructor and Peer Evaluation of Oral Skills in English Speech Class                                                268 – 274 
                           18      Sources of Syntactic Errors in Yemeni Learners’ English Compositions: A                                              275 – 296 
                                   Psycholinguistic Analysis 
                           19      Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety Reduction through a Jigsaw Activity                                                297 – 305 
                           20      Three Asian Students’ Perceptions of Student-Centered Approach to                                                    306 – 324 
                                   Teaching in an EAP Class. 
                       
                       
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                                 AWEJ                          Arab World English Journal 
                                                                           INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ISSN: 2229-9327 
                                                                                                  بيرعلا لماعلا في ةييزكلنالا ةغللا لةمج 
                              AWEJ Volume.3 Number.4, 2012                                                                                             pp. 3 
                               
                              Letter from the editor 
                              Dear Colleagues 
                              Greetings,  
                                            It is our pleasure to announce that we have released the new issue of our Arab World 
                              English Journal (AWEJ) Volume 3, Number 4 December issue 2012. AWEJ has continued to 
                              gain  more  national  and  international  recognitions.   It  is  indexed  and  listed  in  high  ranged 
                              universities, research centers, databases and libraries. AWEJ is now also recognized, indexed and 
                              listed with the University of Saskatchewan – Canada, San José State University - California, 1-
                              Shou  University  -  Taiwan,  Western  Theological  Seminary-  Michigan,    Vrije  Universiteit 
                              Brussel, University of Notre Dame, University of Southern Australia, University of Rochester, 
                              University of Helsinki, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Cornell University Library-New 
                              York, and many more. See this link http://www.awej.org/?section=8. Colleagues whose work is 
                              published in AWEJ are also exposed to more visibility and potential citations.  
                                            On the other hand, we would like to extend a very warm welcome to all new colleagues 
                              joining us and wish them all a successful and professional career with us. Finally on behalf of the 
                              AWEJ team we would like to express our heartily congratulation to our colleague Prof. Dr. Haifa 
                              Al-Buainain at Department of English Literature, and Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, 
                              Qatar University, on her promotion to full professor and wish her all success and prosperity.   
                              Best Regards, 
                               
                              Prof. Dr. Khairi Obaid Al-Zubaidi 
                              Editor: Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) 
                              editor@awej.org 
                              www.awej.org 
                               
                               
                               
                               
                               
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