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    Exploring Identity Representation Strategies in English and Persian Political Discourse

    Forouzan Rezaei, Reza Ghafar Samar, Gholamreza Kiany
    Journal PapersTeaching English Language , Volume 14 , Issue 1, 2020 January 1, {Pages 29-Jan }

    Abstract

    Previous research on identity construction in political and media discourse is mostly limited to the study of strategies employed by politicians in their spoken discourse. However, different political agents, by way of assuming different degrees of power, may employ different strategies for the construction of others' identities. This study is set to investigate how political agents differ in the strategies they employ for the linguistic construction of identities across cultures: English and Persian. A total number of 66 English and Persian texts, produced by three groups of political agents (actors, reporters & researchers) were randomly selected. Then, following Wodak's (2001, 2007, 2009) critical discourse analysis approach, they were a

    Metaphor in second language academic writing

    Maryam Saneie Moghadam, Reza Ghafar Samar
    Journal PapersLanguage Awareness , 2020 July 17, {Pages 16-Jan }

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    This study describes the quantitative aspects of metaphor in academic publications. In particular, we analyze the frequency of metaphor types and source domains in medical papers written by native and non-native speakers of English. The data have been collected from selected published articles on cancer and tissue engineering. The method combines a manual procedure with a semantic tagger and keyness statistics in Wmatrix software for metaphor identification. The results show that while the distribution of metaphor is relatively stable across tissue engineering and cancer articles written by native and non-native speakers, indirect metaphor is more often used than other types of metaphor. Moreover, the findings indicate that som

    Metaphor in Academic Writing: A Report from Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

    Maryam Saneie Moghadam, Reza Ghafar Samar, Ramin Akbari
    Journal PapersForeign Language Research Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 1, 2020 March 20, {Pages 166-179 }

    Abstract

    Metaphors are central to academic writing and scientific theorizing. To create awareness about the features of metaphor in English academic writing, this study investigated frequency, types, and key categories of metaphor in published articles of non-native speakers and compared them with those of native speakers. The data have been collected from 50 research articles with the topic of cancer and gene silencing. For description of frequency and types of metaphors, a sample section of articles was coded with manual metaphor identification procedure and for identification of key categories, a semi-automatic procedure including of software and manual analysis was conducted. Findings suggested that similar to the writing of native speakers, met

    An Investigation of the Effect of Explicit and Implicit Instruction on L2 Syntactic Processing: A Timed Grammaticality Judgement Task

    S Veisi, R Ghafarsamar, M Momenian
    Journal PapersLanguage Related Research , 2019 January , {Pages }

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    Identity Representation Strategies used by English and EL2 Political Actors and Researchers

    Forouzan Rezaei, Reza Ghafar Samar
    Journal PapersIranian Journal of Applied Language Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 1, 2019 March 1, {Pages 0-0 }

    Abstract

    Previous literature on the study of identity representation in political discourse has been mainly concerned with the spoken discourse and the representation of self. However, the way different groups of political agents represent others’ identities across languages has not attracted much attention. Using Wodak’s (2007) Discourse Historical approach to CDA, the present study investigates the way EL2 and English speaking political actors and researchers in the context of Iran and US represent others’ identities in their political discourse. Through purposive sampling, 28 English political speeches and columns produced by native and non-native (Persian) speakers of English were selected for analysis. The results of CDA as well as Chi-sq

    Advertising God in Hinduism and Islam

    Tej K Bhatia, Reza Ghafar Samar
    Journal PapersWorld Englishes , Volume 38 , Issue 3, 2019 September , {Pages 535-551 }

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    This paper aims to examine the role of religion in non‐western advertising and marketing mainly from two perspectives—religion and consumerism. The paper explores four key questions. One, what type of religious symbols, and imageries manifest contemporary advertising to repackage/brand their products and services? Two, how can major traditional religions compete with each other? Three, beyond the chosen ‘spiritual’ language/message, what is the role of other languages (second or third language or a foreign language such as English) to brand religion per se? Finally, how media modality (such as TV channels, social and digital media) provides a springboard for religious influencers to further augment the religious experience, product

    The Development of Reflective Practice among Novice English Language Teachers: The Role of Reflective Journals

    Fouad Behzadpour, SAMAR REZA GHAFAR, RAMIN AKBARI, GHOLAM REZA KIANY
    Journal Papers , Volume 9 , Issue 200800, 2019 January 1, {Pages 365-398 }

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    Reflective teaching has proved to be one of the most important and influential approaches to teaching in second language teacher education. Although this approach has been the subject of numerous studies, in the majority of cases, such studies have been carried out cross-sectionally rather than longitudinally. To address this major problem, the present study, adopting a qualitative research tradition, investigated the development of the reflective practice among four novice English language teachers. The teachers were instructed in strategies employed for journal writing. Reflective journals were collected from each teacher within the time span of one year and were content analyzed. The results of the content analysis indicated that the par

    7 AVOIDANCE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ATTRITION BY MEANS OF RETENTION STRATEGIES: THE CASE OF IRAN

    Gholam Reza Kiany, Reza Ghafar Samar, Mohammad Barzegar Rahatlu
    Journal PapersThe European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL , Volume 7 , Issue 1, 2018 May 1, {Pages 107-129 }

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    1. INTRODUCTION Regrettably, even after much language instruction and devotion to learning a Foreign Language (henceforward, FL), a great number of learners complain that their abilities wane once the context is not favourable to constant use of language any longer. In fact," language loss affects all of us. It occurs in every corner of the world, taking its toll among young and old alike"(Hansen & Reetz-Kurashige, 1999, p. 3). Therefore, understanding language attrition can have great significance for studying language acquisition. This understanding can assist FL learners in not only mastering the language, but also enhancing the durability of their skill. The significance of language attrition studies is also recognised by some scholars.

    The future of ‘future’

    Reza Ghafar Samar, Tej Bhatia
    Journal PapersAsia-Pacific Language Variation , Volume 3 , Issue 2, 2018 January 19, {Pages 130-159 }

    Abstract

    Bybee et al.(1994) claimed that grammatical-types like past and future have similar paths of development cross-linguistically. Following another line of research, Poplack (2011), Poplack and Tagliamonte (2000) and Walker et al.(2004) explored the grammaticalization of periphrastic 'go-future'in English, French, and Spanish from a variationist perspective and have come to the same conclusion. In this study we explore whether a new Persian future marker, MI_KHA:'want/will/going to', which is gaining ground in this language, can be an instance of the grammatical-types mentioned above, and follows the same path of variation and change as that of English and French. Eight-hundred and one future-referring utterances were collected from natural co

    Morpho-syntactic complexity modulates brain activation in Persian-English bilinguals: An fMRI study

    Mohammad Momenian, Reza Nilipour, Reza Ghafar Samar, Stefano F Cappa, Narly Golestani
    Journal PapersBrain and language , Volume 185 , 2018 October 1, {Pages 18-Sep }

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    The Persian language can be considered to have a relatively more complex and combinatorial morpho-syntax than languages like Chinese and English. For example, the Persian verbal system is largely constituted of light verb constructions, in which light verbs are combined with specific items coming from other grammatical classes to generate entirely new verbal entities. This study was designed to examine the mediating effect of language-inherent properties related to morpho-syntax on activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG), a brain area involved in morpho-syntactic processing. To this end, 20 late Persian-English bilinguals were required to covertly generate verbs and nouns from object and action pictures, within a cued grammatic

    A Framework of Reference for Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Threshold of IR of Iran

    Sajjad Askari Matin, Gholamreza Kiany, Reza Ghafar Samar
    Journal PapersTeaching English Language , Volume 12 , Issue 1, 2018 March 16, {Pages 89-109 }

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    Advancements in theory and practice of Teacher Evaluation maintain that effective teaching is the most important factor in realization of success or failure of an education system. Therefore, any attempt to explore the dynamic and complex nature of teachers' performance is considered critical. In the same vein, this paper is an attempt to introduce a Framework of Reference for Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FRTEFL) at the threshold of IR of Iran; a local model aligned with global perspectives. To this end, adapting a qualitative meta-synthesis approach, all possible dimensions of teachers' performance criteria reflected in 17 High-stake resources were explored; scrutinizing the twofold mapping of both curriculum and evaluation stan

    The Applicability of Teaching Lexical Bundles on Medical Students' Writing Proficiency in an EFL Context

    Reza Ghafar Samar, Nasrin Shokrpour, Elham Nasiri
    Journal PapersTeaching English Language , Volume 12 , Issue 2, 2018 October 4, {Pages 27-44 }

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    This study aimed at investigating the applicability of teaching lexical bundles to the writing performance of medical students in an EFL context. Four components of the writing proficiency, namely Task Response (TR), Lexical Resource (LR), Grammatical Range and Accuracy (GRA) and Cohesion & Coherence (CC), were investigated with regard to the effect of teaching lexical bundles. Thirty medical students in the preclinical stage at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences participated and the study was performed through a two-phase procedure. In the first phase, paragraph and essay writing principles were taught after a pretest. The posttest was administered following the treatment. Data were analyzed through T test. The results of the first phas

    Swear Speech Act in a Community of Practice: A sociolinguistic study with an emphasis on the Pragmatics of the Discourse of Iranian Modern Market

    HOSSEIN TALEBZADEH, MEHDI BAZYAR, SAMAR REZA GHAFAR
    Journal Papers , Volume 9 , Issue 200727, 2018 December 22, {Pages 151-169 }

    Abstract

    In this paper, we attempt to present an alternative approach to the concept of translational explicitaion. First, we shortly evaluate the validity of a fundamental presupposition widespread in explicitation research according to which, if converting A to B is an instance of explicitation, then converting B to A cannot have an explicitating effect. Then we introduce explicitation in translation as a pragmatic decision made by the translator to reduce processual effort on the part of target language audience and to provide an easier and faster access to the “meaning” of the text. Then, within the framework of construal operations (Croft Cruse, 2004), we propose a new taxonomy of explicitational mechanisms. These mechanisms change the way

    The future of ‘future’

    Reza Ghafar Samar, Tej Bhatia
    Journal PapersAsia-Pacific Language Variation , Volume 3 , Issue 2, 2018 January 19, {Pages 130-159 }

    Abstract

    Abstract Bybee et?al. (1994) claimed that grammatical-types like past and future have similar paths of development cross-linguistically. Following another line of research, Poplack (2011), Poplack and Tagliamonte (2000) and Walker et?al. (2004) explored the grammaticalization of periphrastic ‘go-future’ in English, French, and Spanish from a variationist perspective and have come to the same conclusion. In this study we explore whether a new Persian future marker, MI_KHA: ‘want/will/going to’, which is gaining ground in this language, can be an instance of the grammatical-types mentioned above, and follows the same path of variation and change as that of English and French. Eight-hundred and one future-referring utterances were coll

    AVOIDANCE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ATTRITION BY MEANS OF RETENTION STRATEGIES: THE CASE OF IRAN

    GR Kiany, RG Samar, MB Rahatlu
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    Predictability of language death: Structural compatibility and language contact

    Reza Ghafar Samar, Tej K. Bhatia
    Journal PapersLanguage Sciences , Issue 62, 2017 January , {Pages 52-65 }

    Abstract

    Thousands of the world's languages are said to be rapidly vanishing (Abrams and Strogatz, 2003), and the issue of language death has emerged as one of the most significant phenomena for linguistic study. Research on language loss and death has, however, focused mostly on European-related languages and historical cases have not attracted due attention (Mufwene, 2001, 2004). Moreover, of the many factors argued to be of importance in causing language death, to the best of our knowledge, little reference has been made to language-internal factors. This study explores the historical outcomes of contact between Arabic–Persian and Arabic–Egyptian languages to shed more light on language maintenance or death under contact situations. Providing

    The effect of verbal and visuospatial working memory spans on collocation processing in learners of English

    Jafar Mohammad Amini, Mohammad Momenian, Reza Ghafar Samar
    Journal PapersJournal of English Language Teaching and Learning , Volume 9 , Issue 20, 2017 November 22, {Pages 157-186 }

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    Much interest has recently been directed toward the knowledge of collocations in the field of second language learning since they have been asserted to improve fluency. The current study was intended to examine the effect of verbal and visuospatial working memory spans on the processing of collocations using a Self-Pace Reading Task (SPRT) and relevant working memory tasks. To this end, participants were divided into two distinct groups (high vs. low) based on their scores in the verbal and visuospatial memory tasks. The results of the analyses revealed that there was not a statistically significant difference between high and low verbal memory groups in the processing of collocations. However, a significant difference was witnessed between

    A qualitative study of EFL teachers' emotion regulation behavior in the classroom

    Ramin Akbari, Reza Ghafar Samar, Gholam Reza Kiany, Mohammad Tahernia
    Journal PapersTheory and Practice in Language Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 4, 2017 April 1, {Pages 311-321 }

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    This study aimed to explore the nature of emotion regulation behavior among EFL teachers. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 EFL teachers teaching general English courses in both private language institutes and public schools in Iran. All interviews, conducted in Farsi, were first transcribed and translated into English. Then, through the use of conceptual content analysis technique, the data were scrutinized for emotion regulation strategies. Overall, five main categories, namely, Teaching Context Preference/Avoidance, Teaching Context Adjustments, Attention Direction, Reappraisal, and Reactive Strategies emerged in the interviews. The emerging categories from the conceptual content analysis corresponded, to a g

    Differences in Contribution of Lexical Processing Levels in L2 Noun and Verb Processing and their Implications in English Language Teaching

    Fatemeh Tabassi Mofrad, Reza Ghafar Samar, Ramin Akbari
    Journal PapersZABANPAZHUHI (Journal of Language Research) , Volume 9 , Issue 22, 2017 April 21, {Pages 147-162 }

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    Differences in Contribution of Lexical Processing Levels in L2 Noun and Verb Processing and their Implications in English Language Teaching ? Fatemeh Tabassi Mofrad[1] ? Reza Ghafar Samar[2] ? Ramin Akbari[3] ? ? Received: 2014/06/07 Accepted: 2015/04/06 ? ? Abstract In psycholinguistic studies, with regard to cognitive models, conceptual preparation, lexical concepts, lemmas, morphemes, phonological words and phonetic patterns have been proposed as different levels of lexical processing. In previous studies, some theories have suggested the sequencing and the simultaneity of the processing modules; however, the contribution of each specific processing level has not been determined. In this study, with the participation of eighty-six underg

    The future of ‘future’: A Persian perspective on grammaticalization of future marking

    RG Samar, T Bhatia
    Journal Papers , , {Pages }

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