Volume 9, Number 1, 2006

Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib

Aspects of Bilingualism in the Arab World: An Introduction.......1

Ali S. Hasan

Analysing Bilingual Classroom Discourse.......7

Aziz Thabit Saeed

Difficulties Encountered by Bilingual Arab Learners in Translating Arabic ‘fa’ into English.......19

Ruba Fahmi Bataineh

Jordanian TEFL Graduate Students' Use of Critical Thinking Skills (as Measured by the Cornell Critical Thinking Test, Level Z).......33

Hassan R. Abd-el-Jawad

Why Do Minority Languages Persist? The Case of Circassian in Jordan.......51

Abdullah Hassan Al-Saqqaf

The Linguistics of Loanwords in Hadrami Arabic.......75

Mohammed Farghal

Compliment Behaviour in Bilingual Kuwaiti College Students.......94

Mohammed N. Al-Ali

Genre-pragmatic Strategies in English Letter-of-application Writing of Jordanian Arabic–English Bilinguals.......119

Book reviews

Building on Community Bilingualism.......140

Gender, Participation and Silence in the Language Classroom: Sh-shushing the Girls.......140

Study Abroad and Second Language Use: Constructing the Self.......140

New Insights into Foreign Language Learning and Teaching.......140

The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition.......146

Language Socialization in Bilingual and Multilingual Societies.......150

Crossing the Curriculum: Multilingual Learners in College Classrooms.......152

Spanish Second Language Acquisition: State of the Science.......154