Ali Malmir

Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

[ 1 ] - The Contribution of General High-Frequency, Core-Academic, and Academic-Technical Words to ESP Reading Comprehension

Reading is recognized as being the most important skill needed by ESP learners in their field of study, and vocabulary knowledge is the most widely discussed component of effective ESP reading per se. However, research on how much the different types of words exert substantial influences over ESP reading comprehension remains scanty. To address this lacuna, the present study aimed to examine th...

[ 2 ] - Instructors and Learners’ Attitudes about English for Science and Technology: Learning and Target Needs of Mechanical Engineering Students

The current investigation sought to examine the learning and target needs of mechanical engineering (ME) students based on the learners and instructors’ attitudes though an explanatory mixed-method design. To elicit learners’ perceptions of English for Science and Technology (EST), 114 ME undergraduate students and 13 EST instructors from four Iranian state universities took part in a large qua...

[ 3 ] - Professionalism: The Perceptions of Iranian English Teachers of Competence and Performance in Language Teaching

Professionalism has been generally linked to nations’ economic, industrial, and technological developments. Therefore, having a professionally and ethically competent workforce is a necessity in today's changing world. More specifically, L2 teacher professionalism plays a crucial role in economic development too.  Given its utmost importance in language teaching, this study intended to investig...

[ 4 ] - A Contrastive Analysis of Persian and English Compliment, Request, and Invitation Patterns within the Semantic Metalanguage Framework

Speech acts shape the core of pragmatic competence and their mastery is a prerequisite for successful dis- course encounters in an L2. Cross-cultural comparisons, as claimed by Johnstone (2018), are very effec- tive for knowing and acquiring the speech acts. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to compare a limited number of communicative routines in English and Persian within the f...

[ 5 ] - نقدی بر کتاب Handbook of Technology and Second Language Teaching and Learning (فناوری در آموزش ویادگیری زبان دوم)

کتب مختلفی برای بررسی جایگاه فناوری در آموزش زبان خارجه نوشته شده­است که به گفته منتقدان، اغلب آنها در نیل به اهداف خود چندان موفق نبوده­اند. اما کتاب فناوری در آموزش و یادگیری زبان دوم که توسط Caral A. Chapell و Shanon Sauro گردآوری و در سال 2017میلادی توسط انتشارات Wiley Blackwell منتشر شده است، تصویر جامعی از حیطه­های اصلی فناوری در آموزش و فراگیری زبان دوم ارائه می­کند. این کتاب هنوز به زبا...

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