Language acquisition socialization: Sociocognitive and complexity theory perspectives; by Assia BAGHDADI (pp. 1-22); The impact of background knowledge on test performance: A multivariate G-theory approach; by Seyyed Mohammad ALAVI & Hossein KARAMI (pp. 23-44); A pragmatic analysis of diminutives in Palestinian society; by Mahmood K. M. ESHRETEH (pp. 45-62); Second language teacher education: Preparing teachers for the needs of second language learners; by Aseel KANAKRI (pp. 63-94); Exploring a novice Chinese EFL teacher's writing beliefs and practices: A systemic functional perspective; by Xiaodong ZHANG (pp. 95-118); A pragma-semiotic analysis of the Catholic bishops' communiqué on the Ebola epidemic: Impact on the University of Ibadan Catholic faithful; by Patience Obiageri SOLOMON-ETEFIA & Gerald Okechukwu NWEYA (pp. 119-142); Book Review by Azizeh Chalak (pp. 143-151).

Papers in this issue:(1) Jesús García Laborda & Miguel Fernández Álvarez: Teachers' opinions towards the integration of oral tasks in the Spanish University Examination; (2)Oksana Laleko:Restructuring of verbal aspect in Heritage Russian: Beyond lexicalization; (3) Yu-Cheng Lee:Comparison of politeness and acceptability perceptions of request strategies between Chinese learners of English and native English speakers; (4) Kunal Kamal Kumar: Development and application of an instrument to find out the linguistic background of employees in MNCs; (5) Amelia Maria Cava: Abstracting science: A corpus-based approach to research article abstracts; (6) Reima Al-Jarf: Helping medical students with online videos; (7) Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan & Nafiseh Khakbaz: Theses 'Discussion' sections: A structural move analysis; (8) Hossein Karami & Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan: Differential Item Functioning (DIF): Current problems and future directions; (9) Forough Rahimi: Book Review

PAPERS IN THIS ISSUE: A rhetoric-thematic analysis of surah "Waqi'a" (1-16); Studying Chinese as a foreign language: Learner attitudes and language learning (17-40); Iconicity in the syntactic structure of Mandarin Chinese (41-66); The impact of English versus Persian songs on Iranian EFL learners' mastery of English letters (67-88); The role of culture in cooperative learning (89-120); The interface between ESP, genre analysis, and rhetorical structure analysis (121-160); Four key focus on form options (161-171); Book Review (172-185)