Ali Derakhshan

[ 1 ] - Pragmatic comprehension of apology, request and refusal: An investigation on the effect of consciousness-raising video-driven prompts

Recent  research  in  interlanguage  pragmatics  (ILP)  has  substantiated  that  some  aspects  of pragmatics are amenable to instruction in the second or foreign language classroom. However, there  are  still  controversies  over  the  most  conducive  teaching  approaches  and  the  required materials.  Therefore,  this  study  aims  to  investigate  the  relative  effectiveness  of  conscio...

[ 2 ] - 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...

[ 3 ] - Cultural Linguistics: Cultural Conceptualizations and Language, Farzad Sharifian (2017), John Benjamins, ISBN 9789027204110

[ 4 ] - Psychometric Properties of Multiple Intelligence Developmental Assessment Scales (MIDAS) for Adults in the Iranian Context

This study reports psychometric properties and derivation of norms for a Persian version of the Multiple Intelligence Developmental Assessment Scales (MIDAS) for Adults. After examining and confirming equivalency between English and Persian versions, translated and validated by Saeidi, Ostovar, Shearer, and Asghari Jafarabadi (2015), the scale was administered to a sample (N = 2146), including ...

[ 5 ] - Investigating the Effects of English Language Teachers’ Professional Identity and Autonomy in Their Success

Because of the importance of instructor success in the adequacy of instruction and learning, this study aimed to explain the impact of two factors, namely language teachers’ professional identity and autonomy, with respect to their success. To this end, 190 Iranian EFL teachers, including university lecturers and language institute teachers, participated in this study. As for data collection, t...

[ 6 ] - High- and Mid-Frequency Vocabulary Size as Predictors of Iranian University EFL Students’ Speaking Performance

Literature is replete with the studies focusing on the role of vocabulary knowledge in second language receptive skills. However, the relationship between the aspects of vocabulary knowledge and productive skills in general, and the speaking performance in particular has remained scanty in the related literature. This paper examined the relationship between knowledge of L2 vocabulary size at di...

[ 7 ] - تأثیر روش آموزش کاربردشناسی تشریحی وتلویحی بر درک کنش‌های گفتاری معذرت‌خواهی و امتناع در بین دانشجویان زبان انگلیسی سطح متوسط

کاربردشناسی، یکی از گرایش های نسبتاً نوظهور در رشتة زبانشناسی است که همواره مورد توجه پژوهشگران بوده و به حوزة مستقل از پژوهش های زبانشناختی تبدیل شده‌است. با توجه به اهمیت دانش کاربردشناسی در بهبود توانش ارتباطی زبان‌آموزان، پژوهش حاضر به بررسی تأثیر آموزش تلویحی و تشریحی با استفاده از برشهای ویدئویی بر درک کاربردشناسی دو کنش گفتاری معذرت خواهی و امتناع پرداخته‌است. به این منظور، تعداد 49 دانشج...

[ 8 ] - Instructed Second Language English Pragmatics in the Iranian Context

The present study aimed to review the instruction of the L2 speech acts in English pragmatics in the Iranian context during the last two decades from 2000 to 2020. To this end, upon the completion of the study search, the retrieved articles were selected and analyzed based on the research domain.  The results of our synthesis from 54 studies carried out on the instruction of the speech act not ...