Gholamreza Zarei
Isfahan University of Technology
[ 1 ] - Patterns of Pair Interaction in EFL Dyadic Talk: A Study of Peer Responses
This classroom-based study sets out to study the relationships that EFL learners would form in peer responses in an EFL writing class. It examines Storch’s (2002a) patterns of peer interaction when intermediate learners are paired with partners of different L2 proficiency levels. To discover the factors that could affect the nature of peer interactions, at first a proficiency test of TOEFL was ...
[ 2 ] - Published vs. Postgraduate Writing in Applied Linguistics: The Case of Lexical Bundles
Abstract: Lexical bundles, as building blocks of coherent discourse, have been the subject of much research in the last two decades. While many of such studies have been mainly concerned with exploring variations in the use of these word sequences across different registers and disciplines, very few have addressed the use of some particular groups of lexical bundles within some gen...
[ 3 ] - L2 Learners’ Lexical Inferencing: Perceptual Learning Style Preferences, Strategy Use, Density of Text, and Parts of Speech as Possible Predictors
This study was intended first to categorize the L2 learners in terms of their learning style preferences and second to investigate if their learning preferences are related to lexical inferencing. Moreover, strategies used for lexical inferencing and text related issues of text density and parts of speech were studied to determine their moderating effects and the best predictors of lexical infe...
[ 4 ] - Effect of Using Image-Schemas on Learning L2 Prepositions and Enhancing Learner Autonomy: A Dynamic System Theory and Cognitive Linguistics-Inspired Approach
This study investigated the effect of applying the dynamic system theory (DST) and cognitive linguistics (CL) insights into grammar instruction on EFL learners’ learning of English prepositions and learner autonomy. Sixty Iranian EFL learners at the lower-intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 1 experimental and 1 control group. The 2 groups filled out an autonomy ...
[ 5 ] - Role of Teacher-Constructed vs. Cooperative Concept Map Learning Strategies in EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension and Autonomy
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of 2 concept map (CM) learning strategies on Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension ability and learner autonomy. To this end, 60 Iranian EFL learners at the preintermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 2 groups. Both groups received an 8-week instruction: one through teacher-constructed and the other throug...
[ 6 ] - E-politeness in Iranian English Electronic Requests to the Faculty
This paper reports the findings of a study designed to investigate English e-requestsof Iranian EFL postgraduate students (i.e., nonnative speakers of English) made totheir professors during their education at Islamic Azad University, Najaf AbadBranch, Isfahan, Iran, to find out types of politeness features employed in the students’e-mails and the extent to which these features might influence ...
[ 7 ] - ACADEMIC WRITING REVISITED: A PHRASEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS HIGH-STAKE GENRES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LEXICAL BUNDLES
Lexical bundles are frequent word combinations that commonly appear in different registers. They have been the subject of much research in the area of corpus linguistics during the last decade. While most previous studies of bundles have mainly focused on variations in the use of these word combinations across different registers and a number of disciplines, not much research has been done to e...
[ 8 ] - A Probe into Adaptive Transfer across Writing Contexts: A Case of an EGAP Class
In an effort to expand the disciplinary discussions on transfer in L2 writing and because most studies have focused on transfer as reuse and not as an adequate adaptation of writing knowledge in new contexts, the present study as the first of its kind aimed to explore the issue of adaptive transfer in an English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP) writing course. The study thus focused on type...
[ 9 ] - جهت داری فرهنگی زبان انگلیسی در فرایند جهانی شدن: بررسی و تحلیل محتوای کتب آموزشی اینترچنج
امروزه زبان انگلیسی به عنوان یک وسیلة ارتباطی گسترده، جزء جدایی ناپذیر روند جهانی شدن تلقی می‌شود. حساسیت‌های موجود پیرامون گسترش نامتقارن و تسلط این زبان بر سراسر جهان، پژوهشگران را به ارائۀ مدل‌های خنثی از زبان انگلیسی تشویق کرده است. الگوهای ارائه شده بر ماهیت چند فرهنگه بودن و یاتهی بودن زبان انگلیسی از ارزش‌های فرهنگی تأکید دارند. اما وضعیت کنونی زبان انگلیسی و سیر ...
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