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Mohamed Reza Farangi; Naser Rashidi; Abolfazl Sanjarani – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
This study investigated EFL classroom talk using Halliday and Matthiessen's (2013) meta-functions framework. Four female participants, including two experienced and two inexperienced teachers, taught similar grammar subjects to their intact classes. Classes were video-recorded and transcribed by the researchers. The meta-functions included topical…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pourhaji, Mostafa; Sadeghi, Michael; Rezvani, Foruq – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2023
Although studying the actual use of L2 materials has gained momentum over the past few years, little is known about its synergy with teachers' beliefs. This study addressed this gap by exploring teachers' stated and enacted beliefs about (effective) materials use in L2 classroom discourse. To this effect, naturally-occurring interactions within 10…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials, Correlation
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Rasti, Alireza – Higher Education Policy, 2021
The aim of this investigation was twofold: to explore how policy texts are discursively involved in the formation of subject positions and to help lay bare the part dominant hegemonic discourses play in this process. To this end, a policy document on the Iranian higher education quality supervision, assessment, and assurance system was analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education
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Ebrahimi, Hourieh; Xodabande, Ismail – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
Discourse markers (DMs) as linguistic devices have a significant role in the coherence of conversation--a speakers' fluency. With the growing use of English worldwide, it is of great importance to focus on DMs as an essential part of communication which provides discourse coherence. This study was conducted to develop a description of spoken…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Karimzad, Farzad; Sibgatullina, Gulnaz – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2018
Adopting an online ethnographic approach, we examine the linguistic/semiotic practices and ideologies of "purism" among Tatar and Iranian Azerbaijani Facebook users. We argue that purification practices can be understood as identity work, the outcome of which is often not an etymologically "purer" language but a (perceived)…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Ethnography, Semiotics, Turkic Languages
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Abdi, Jalil; Sadeghi, Karim – International Journal of English Studies, 2018
Marketization in all public spheres, including academic discourse, has led to the increased importance of promotion. One of the promotional tools usually used in Research Articles Introductions (RAIs) is claiming centrality. In this study, we aimed to explore differences between native and non-native writers in the use of strategies for claiming…
Descriptors: Marketing, Commercialization, Research Reports, Journal Articles
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Zabihi, Reza – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The study reported in this article examined the impact of task type on the ways in which learners resolve grammatical language-related episodes (LREs) and whether the level of engagement affects subsequent language development. Data were collected over a six-week period. Thirty-two Iranian second language (L2) learners were paired up to complete a…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
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Hashemi, Mohammad Reza; Hosseini, Hosna – Advanced Education, 2019
This study tended to investigate the effect of culture, as depicted in language, on the use of stance in the applied linguistics research articles of two groups: native speakers of Persian, and native speakers of English. The two corpora comprising the discussion sections of forty research articles from reliable journals were compared for amounts…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Research Reports, Periodicals
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Nasrollahi Shahri, Mohammad Naseh – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
The study examines second language identities constructed in small stories around intercultural communication. It presents a detailed narrated-event and narrating-event analysis of small stories narrated by an Iranian user of English as a second language (ESL). The analysis suggests that small stories can become a site where second language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Self Concept
Nguyen, Hanh thi, Ed.; Malabarba, Taiane, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This edited volume brings together 10 cutting-edge empirical studies on the realities of English language learning, teaching and testing in a wide range of global contexts where English is an additional language. It covers three themes: learners' development of interactional competence, the organization of teaching and testing practices, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
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Adel, Seyyed Mohammad Reza; Davoudi, Mohammad; Ramezanzadeh, Akram – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2016
In regard to the significant role of information and communication technology (ICT) in educational systems, it becomes increasingly important to gain a better understanding of the features of the language used by learners in the new contexts created by this medium. This paper aims at analyzing politeness strategies including negative politeness,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Social Influences
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Khatib, Mohammad; Miri, Mowla – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
Transmission-based language classrooms have been mostly dominated by teachers' authority, as reflected in IRF (Teacher Initiation, Student Response, Teacher Follow up/Feedback) architecture of their discourses. By contrast, Critical Pedagogy (CP) has been after fostering multivocality in and out of classroom borders. Which qualities of teacher…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Torabiardakani, Najmeh; Khojasteh, Laleh; Shokrpour, Nasrin – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2015
Since modal auxiliary verbs have been proved to be one of the most troublesome grammatical structures in English, the researchers of this study decided to do an analysis on the ways in which advanced EFL Iranian students use modal auxiliaries focusing specially on nine modals' semantic functions. Consequently, was conducted based on the following…
Descriptors: Semantics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Verbs
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Boshrabadi, Abbas Mehrabi; Biria, Reza; Zavari, Zahra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study was an attempt to investigate the functional role of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in English and Persian Economic news reports. To this end, 10 news articles, 5 in each language, were randomly selected from the Economic sections of the leading newspapers published in 2013-2014 in Iran and the United States. Based on…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English, Indo European Languages, Newspapers
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Miri, Mowla; Alibakhshi, Goudarz; Mostafaei-Alaei, Mahnaz – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
The authors report on a study aimed at exploring the role of a teacher education program (TEP) rested upon the tenets of critical pedagogy in influencing teachers' cognitions and practices concerning first-language (L1) use in second-language (L2) classrooms. Participants were 10 Iranian English as a foreign language teachers, whose cognitions…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Negative Attitudes
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