Finding a valuable and researchable topic can be one of the biggest challenges in research. The literature on applied linguistics research gives some potential sources of research ideas, such as suggestions for further research in published articles and problems in teaching, but these suggestions are given with no evidence that they are the actual sources of successful research studies. This pa...

The Laboratory for Applied Ontology (OntoLab) is a distributed structure (Rome and Trento) of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology (a section of the Italian National Research Council). It performs basic and applied research on the ontological foundations of conceptual modelling, exploring the role of ontologies in different fields, such as knowledge representation, knowledge engin...

this study explored nominalized expression types in an applied linguistics book and a biology book as 2 distinct disciplines. the books were carefully read, the nominalized expression types were identified, the frequencies of the nominalization types were counted, and eventually chi-square was administered. results revealed no significant difference in using nominalization. furthermore, the den...

The abstract of research papers is one of the first things that a reader will read to determine the value of the research. A well-written abstract will surely promote the text attached to it more effectively. By examining the rhetorical moves in the abstracts of Chinese Master’s English theses and published research articles in applied linguistics, this study compares the practices of student w...

This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of Applied Linguistics research articles published in Iranian and international journals. A corpus of 20 research article introductions (10 from each journal) was used. The corpus was analysed for the syntactic features (tense, aspect and voice) and semantic meaning of verbs. The finding...

Conducting qualitative research in applied linguistics seems to have some challenges. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the challenges of applied linguists across different research abilities to conduct qualitative studies. To that end, the biographical narratives, authored by 13 applied linguists, were collected. Then, the narratives were analyzed through qualitative data analysis princip...