Journal of Language Teaching and Research ISSN 1798-4769 Volume 4, Number 4, July 2013 Contents REGULAR PAPERS L2 Writing Assessment in the Greek School of Foreign Languages Despoina Panou Vocabulary Learning Strategies of the Advanced Students Katarzyna Maria Nosidlak EFL Students‘ Judgments of English Idiom Familiarity and Transparency Sameer S. Aljabri The Comparison of English Learning between Two Ethnic Groups Ching-Ying Lin and Yong-Ming Chen Learner Involvement in Language Development: From Course Design to Performance Assessment Abdulmoneim Mahmoud Use of Technology in Classroom for Professional Development Fouzieh Sabzian, Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani, and Sedigheh Sodouri A Case Study of Exploring Viability of Task-based Instruction on College English Teaching in Big- sized Class Xiangyang Zhang and Shu-Chiu Hung Relationship between VAK Learning Styles and Problem Solving Styles regarding Gender and Students' Fields of Study Shahin Gholami and Mohammad S. Bagheri A Study on the Pragmatic Fossilization of Discourse Markers among Chinese English Learners Hongwei Zhao Cultural Capital and English Language Achievement at Grade Three in Iranian High Schools Ebrahim Khodadady and Marziye Mokhtary Binary Oppositions in the Structure of Masnavi Stories Alimorad Ahmadi, Mansour Neurouzi Mostaali, Faramarz Piri, and Mandana Rahimi Bajelani Learning a Foreign Language through Text and Memorisation: The Chinese Learners‘ Perceptions Xia Yu Brian Friel‘s Translations: A Bourdieusian Reading Hossein Pirnajmuddin and Elham Heidari The Impact of Gender and Strategic Pre-task Planning Time on EFL Learners‘ Oral Performance in Terms of Accuracy Ali Shafaei, Asghar Salimi, and Zahra Talebi 649 655 662 670 679 684 693 700 707 715 724 731 741 746