English Language Teaching Research in the Middle East and North Africa: Multiple Perspectives

Introduction, Sahbi Hidri
PART ONE: TESTING, EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT
Chapter One: Assessing Second Language Proficiency under "Unequal" Perspectives: A Call for Research in the MENA Region, Lee McCallumChapter Two: State-of-the-Art of Assessment in Tunisia: The Case of Testing Listening Comprehension, Sahbi HidriChapter Three: Cultural Content Evaluation of English Language Textbooks (Link Up Series Elementary & Intermediate), Hala Salih Mohamed Nur, Asjad Ahmed Saeed and Abdelkaliq AbboodChapter Four: The Washback Effect of the Thanaweya Amma English Test: Drawbacks and Solutions, Mahmoud Ibrahim
PART TWO: INTERFACES BETWEEN TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT
Chapter Five: A Proposed Metacognitive-Based Approach to Promoting EFL Cohesion and Coherence in Essay Writing of Algerian Master Students, Manal Boudghene Stambouli and Amine BelmekkiChapter Six: More than a Pyramid of Papers: Students' Portfolios and Developmental Language Assessment in the ESL Classroom, Charles EdonmiChapter Seven: The Effectiveness of Pre-assessment to Differentiate the Reading Tasks for the Mixed-Abilities EFL Learners, Syeda Saima Ferheen BukhariChapter Eight: Self-Esteem, Self-Expectancy and Oral Achievement in the Tunisian EFL Context, Marwa Mekni Toujani and Tarek HermessiChapter Nine: Investigating the Quality of Argument Structure in First-Year University Writing, Besma Allagui
PART THREE: ARGUMENTATION IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Chapter Ten: Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Moroccan EFL Learners' Written Discourse, Ahmed SahlaneChapter Eleven: Publish or Perish: The Research Letter Genre and Non-Anglophone Scientists' Struggle for Academic Visibility, Mimoun MellitiChapter Twelve: Hedging in Applied Linguistics Theses: An Exploratory Comparative Study, Nourhan SorourChapter Thirteen: Analyzing Argumentative Essay as an Academic Genre on Assessment Framework of IELTS and TOEFL, Zulfiqar Ahmad
PART FOUR: TEACHING DIGLOASSIA AND VOCABULARY
Chapter Fourteen: Including Diglossia in Teaching Arabic as Second Language Programmes: Suggestions and Implications from a Darija Course in Casablanca, Fracesca TabloniChapter Fifteen: Vocabulary Instruction through Patterns of Activity Sequencing Use: Revising the Understanding of Integration in Language Teaching, Ahlam BouiraneChapter Sixteen: Arabic-Speaking Students of EFL, Vocabulary and the Art of Structured Review, Nathaniel Lotze
PART FIVE: ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING PROBLEMS
Chapter Seventeen: Understanding English Speaking Difficulties: Implications for the English Language Curriculum for the Arab Students in a Pakistani University, Musharraf AzizChapter Eighteen: Domain-Specific and Domain-General Processing Accounts in Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): Contribution of Cross Linguistic Evidence, Areej M. A. Balilah, Yasaman Rafat and Lisa M. D. ArchibaldChapter Nineteen: Difficulties Facing Children in Learning English as a Foreign Language in the Libyan Context, Deya M. R. AL-Osta Omar, Ahmed Ayiad Gaibani and Fadil Elmenfi  
PART SIX: MOTIVATION AND ERROR ANALYSIS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Chapter Twenty: The Role of Intrinsic Motivation and Oral Corrective Feedback in the EFL Classroom, Cirine Zouaidi and Tarek HermessiChapter Twenty-one: Omani EFL Written Errors at a College Level, Sharifa Said Ali Al-AdawiChapter Twenty-two: Investigating Motivational Factors in EFL Classroom from the Perspectives of Students at a Tertiary Context in Oman, Iman al-KadieChapter Twenty-three: An Error Analysis of Writing Skills among English Foreign Language Learners at University Utara Malaysia, Ahmed Basher, Fadil Elmenfi and Ahmed Gaibani
PART SEVEN: THE ROLE OF CRITICAL THINKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING
Chapter Twenty-four: Receptivity and Resistance of Students and Teachers to Learner Agency in Topic and Text Selection, Jonathan Mason, Yosri Ben Ammar, Sarra Romdhane and Shahira TarashChapter Twenty-five: Entrepreneurship Skills in Business English: Promoting Regulation and Social Entrepreneurship through Experiential Learning, Tamim Ata AllahChapter Twenty-six: "We Need Writers." A Case Study of Writer-Illustrator Maitha Al-Khayat and the UAE Children's Book Publishing Industry, Shelley Lawson
PART EIGHT: TECHNOLOGY IN LANGAUGE LEARNING AND TEACHINGChapter Twenty-seven: The Pedagogical Development of Blended Learning, Marine MiladChapter Twenty-eight: The Impact of Online Discussions on the Accuracy of the Written Output of Bahraini L2 University Students, Diana A.K. Al JahromiChapter Twenty-nine: The iPad in the Foundations Program of the Higher Colleges of Technology in Fujairah, Barraq AliChapter Thirty: Incorporating Audio-Visual Aids in the English Language Classroom in Tunisia: A Case Study, Ines Boufahja