Papers by Abdollah Mohsenzadeh Khanafereh
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Sep 29, 2022
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
This study aimed to investigate the realizations of verbs’ syntactic and semantic features in mov... more This study aimed to investigate the realizations of verbs’ syntactic and semantic features in moves of applied linguistics research article introductions published in international and Iranian local journals. To this end, a data of 30 research article introductions (15 published in Iranian local journals and 15 in high impact international journals) was selected. The research article introductions were analyzed for the move structures using Swales’s CARS (1990) model. The research article introductions were also analyzed for tense, aspect, voice (Syntactic features) and semantic meaning of verbs. The results indicated that simple present and active voice were the predominant tense and voice in both sets of research article introductions. Concerning the semantic meaning of verbs, the results showed that three kinds of semantic meanings of verbs were used more frequently. They are namely mental, activity, and existence or relationship verbs. This study could have implications for novi...
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2015
This study intends to find out the attitudes of EFL learners and instructors concerning the use o... more This study intends to find out the attitudes of EFL learners and instructors concerning the use of power point presentation in teaching and learning. To this end, 40 learners and 10 instructors were selected as participants. The learners and instructors were given questionnaires including 10 and 15 items, respectively. The results indicated that both learners and instructors have positive attitudes towards the use of power point presentations in teaching and learning as conducted in EFL classrooms. The results also illustrated that EFL learners and instructors, especially the participants in this study, are in need of being familiarized with the use of technology in general and power point presentation in particular while teaching and learning. The results of this study could contribute to our understanding of the barriers which would hinder the application of technology in teaching and learning in the EFL context as focused by modern ELT approaches and methods.
This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduct... more 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 findings showed that in both groups of introductions, the common tenses were the present and past, rather than future. In introductions published in the international journal, the present tense was used more often than in those published in the Iranian journal, whereas past tense was used twice as frequently in Iranian journal introductions. Regarding the aspect of verbs, the simple aspect was common in both groups of introductions, but more frequent in Iranian journal introductions. The perfect aspect was more common in international journal introductions. Concerning voice, the active voice was pred...
International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 2016
This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduct... more 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 findings showed that in both groups of introductions, the common tenses were the present and past, rather than future. In introductions published in the international journal, the present tense was used more often than in those published in the Iranian journal, whereas past tense was used twice as frequently in Iranian journal introductions. Regarding the aspect of verbs, the simple aspect was common in both groups of introductions, but more frequent in Iranian journal introductions. The perfect aspect was more common in international journal introductions. Concerning voice, the active voice was predominant in both groups of introductions. Semantically, verbs with mental, activity, communication and existence meanings were common in both groups. The semantic meanings of verbs were not significantly different in the two groups of introductions. The findings of this study can have implications for novice, non-native writers in Applied Linguistics in helping them design and write more appropriate research article introductions.
This study intends to investigate the realizations and functional patterns of shell nouns in Appl... more This study intends to investigate the realizations and functional patterns of shell nouns in Applied Linguistics research articles. To this end, fifty research articles in the field of Applied Linguistic were selected from Journal of English for Academic Purposes and journal of English for Specific Purposes published by Elsevier. The articles were analyzed for the realizations of shell nouns based on the list suggested by Hinkel (2004). As to the functional patterns, Schmid’s (2000) classification of functional patterns of shell nouns was also adopted. Findings reported that some shell nouns are used more frequently while some were put aside. Findings also reported that writers of research articles in the field of Applied Linguistics used functional patterns suggested by Schmid (2000). Findings of this study could have implications by raising the awareness of writers of Applied Linguistics research articles, especially in EFL contexts, concerning the use of shell nouns and fun...
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, Dec 29, 2014
Abstract This study intends to find out the attitudes of EFL learners and instructors concerning ... more Abstract This study intends to find out the attitudes of EFL learners and instructors concerning the use of power point presentation in teaching and learning. To this end, 40 learners and 10 instructors were selected as participants. The learners and instructors were given questionnaires including 10 and 15 items, respectively. The results indicated that both learners and instructors have positive attitudes towards the use of power point presentations in teaching and learning as conducted in EFL classrooms. The results also illustrated that EFL learners and instructors, especially the participants in this study, are in need of being familiarized with the use of technology in general and power point presentation in particular while teaching and learning. The results of this study could contribute to our understanding of the barriers which would hinder the application of technology in teaching and learning in the EFL context as focused by modern ELT approaches and methods.
This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduct... more 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 findings showed that in both groups of introductions, the common tenses were the present and past, rather than future. In introductions published in the international journal, the present tense was used more often than in those published in the Iranian journal, whereas past tense was used twice as frequently in Iranian journal introductions. Regarding the aspect of verbs, the simple aspect was common in both groups of introductions, but more frequent in Iranian journal introductions. The perfect aspect was more common in international journal introductions. Concerning voice, the active voice was predominant in both groups of introductions. Semantically, verbs with mental, activity, communication and existence meanings were common in both groups. The semantic meanings of verbs were not significantly different in the two groups of introductions. The findings of this study can have implications for novice, non-native writers in Applied Linguistics in helping them design and write more appropriate research article introductions.
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This study intends to find out the attitudes of EFL learners and instructors conce... more Abstract
This study intends to find out the attitudes of EFL learners and instructors concerning the
use of power point presentation in teaching and learning. To this end, 40 learners and 10
instructors were selected as participants. The learners and instructors were given
questionnaires including 10 and 15 items, respectively. The results indicated that both
learners and instructors have positive attitudes towards the use of power point
presentations in teaching and learning as conducted in EFL classrooms. The results also
illustrated that EFL learners and instructors, especially the participants in this study, are in
need of being familiarized with the use of technology in general and power point
presentation in particular while teaching and learning. The results of this study could
contribute to our understanding of the barriers which would hinder the application of
technology in teaching and learning in the EFL context as focused by modern ELT
approaches and methods.
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Papers by Abdollah Mohsenzadeh Khanafereh
This study intends to find out the attitudes of EFL learners and instructors concerning the
use of power point presentation in teaching and learning. To this end, 40 learners and 10
instructors were selected as participants. The learners and instructors were given
questionnaires including 10 and 15 items, respectively. The results indicated that both
learners and instructors have positive attitudes towards the use of power point
presentations in teaching and learning as conducted in EFL classrooms. The results also
illustrated that EFL learners and instructors, especially the participants in this study, are in
need of being familiarized with the use of technology in general and power point
presentation in particular while teaching and learning. The results of this study could
contribute to our understanding of the barriers which would hinder the application of
technology in teaching and learning in the EFL context as focused by modern ELT
approaches and methods.
This study intends to find out the attitudes of EFL learners and instructors concerning the
use of power point presentation in teaching and learning. To this end, 40 learners and 10
instructors were selected as participants. The learners and instructors were given
questionnaires including 10 and 15 items, respectively. The results indicated that both
learners and instructors have positive attitudes towards the use of power point
presentations in teaching and learning as conducted in EFL classrooms. The results also
illustrated that EFL learners and instructors, especially the participants in this study, are in
need of being familiarized with the use of technology in general and power point
presentation in particular while teaching and learning. The results of this study could
contribute to our understanding of the barriers which would hinder the application of
technology in teaching and learning in the EFL context as focused by modern ELT
approaches and methods.