Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan
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View article: EXAMINING TYPES OF MEANING IN ACEHNESE CONTEMPORARY SONG LYRICS: A STUDY OF APACHE13’S ALBUM BÉK PANIK
EXAMINING TYPES OF MEANING IN ACEHNESE CONTEMPORARY SONG LYRICS: A STUDY OF APACHE13’S ALBUM BÉK PANIK Open
This study investigates the meanings embedded within song lyrics from the Acehnese local band Apache13’s album Bék Panik (translated as ‘Don’t Panic’). The primary aim is to analyze the types of meaning present in these Acehnese songs usin…
View article: Native experts and reputable journals as points of reference: A study on research-article discussions
Native experts and reputable journals as points of reference: A study on research-article discussions Open
The current study sought to compare the rhetorical moves and steps that native-English-speaking and Iranian authors of research articles (RAs) employ in writing up the ‘discussion’ sections of their RAs. It was hypothesized that the latter…
View article: EFL classroom, petri dish, panopticon, and free world: How do they merge through action research?
EFL classroom, petri dish, panopticon, and free world: How do they merge through action research? Open
Action research is a promising and significant research methodology that paves the way for intervention, development and change not only within small groups and communities of practice but also within larger societies. Building on a terse-…
View article: Breaking out of the Gricean vicious cycle: Let's divorce semantics and just agree that there is no meaning in language
Breaking out of the Gricean vicious cycle: Let's divorce semantics and just agree that there is no meaning in language Open
The existing theories of meaning are classifiable into semantic and foundational categories. After a brief overview of these categories, the current paper will dwell on a discussion of what has urged pragmaticists to endorse a dovetailing …
View article: Psychometrics Revisited: Recapitulation of the Major Trends in TESOL
Psychometrics Revisited: Recapitulation of the Major Trends in TESOL Open
A test is a tool for making quantified value judgments and/or comparisons, and a good test is a bias-free gauge that does its value judgments and quantifications with precision. This requires that the test be at least reliable. In applied …
View article: Washback or backwash? Revisiting the status quo of washback and test impact in EFL contexts
Washback or backwash? Revisiting the status quo of washback and test impact in EFL contexts Open
It has been argued in the literature on (language) testing that any act of testing/assessment can impact (a) educators’ curriculum design, (b) teachers’ teaching practices, and (c) students’ learning behaviors. This quality of any given te…
View article: Test affordances or test function? Did we get Messick's message right?
Test affordances or test function? Did we get Messick's message right? Open
This paper follows a line of logical argumentation to claim that what Samuel Messick conceptualized about construct validation has probably been misunderstood by some educational policy makers, practicing educators, and classroom teachers.…
View article: Demanding versus asking in Persian: Requestives as acts of verbal harassment
Demanding versus asking in Persian: Requestives as acts of verbal harassment Open
Assuming that demanding and asking are different types of requestives, the study hypothesized (a) that they differ in their degrees and types of indirectness in request head acts (HAs) and internal/external supportive discourse moves (ISMs…
View article: Language assessment: Lessons learnt from the existing literature
Language assessment: Lessons learnt from the existing literature Open
Language testing has witnessed three major trends in the 1990s: theoretical, methodological, and analytical. Theoretically, emphasis has been placed on the further understanding of the construct of language proficiency. Methodologically, t…
View article: English for specific purposes: Traditions, trends, directions
English for specific purposes: Traditions, trends, directions Open
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) began around fifty years ago as a result of pressing worldwide demands for fast-paced language training in occupational and professional settings, rapid revolutions in theoretical linguistics, and burgeo…
View article: Clearing the mist: The border between linguistic politeness and social etiquette
Clearing the mist: The border between linguistic politeness and social etiquette Open
Even some of the biggest names in pragmatics and politeness oftentimes confuse social etiquette with linguistic politeness. I was recently invited to examine a PhD thesis at a famous university in New Zealand, and it came to me as a shock …
View article: A conversation analytic perspective on Quranic verses and chapters
A conversation analytic perspective on Quranic verses and chapters Open
Applying a conversation-analytic framework to Quranic verses and chapters, the current qualitative study sought to shed new lights on the opening and closing verses in The Holy Quran. In effect, the study analyzed the opening and closing v…
View article: Toward a taxonomy of errors in Iranian EFL learners' basic-level writing
Toward a taxonomy of errors in Iranian EFL learners' basic-level writing Open
This study attempted at classifying common errors found in the written performance of lower- and upper-intermediate Iranian EFL learners. It engaged a rich corpus of EFL writing samples collected over a course of 20 years (between 1992 and…
View article: Lexemes, practs, and those who have yet to decide
Lexemes, practs, and those who have yet to decide Open
Mey’s (2001) action-theoretic societal pragmatics known as pragmatic act theory nurtures the idea that the explanatory movement in pragmatic theories should go from the outside in (i. e. from actual situational contexts into prior contexts…
View article: An analysis of the opening and closing verses in the holy Quran
An analysis of the opening and closing verses in the holy Quran Open
The present qualitative study was concerned with the opening and closing verses in the Holy Quran. In effect, the study analyzed the opening and closing verses of 14 surahs to find out the central themes upon which they begin and come to a…
View article: Speech acts or language micro- and macro-games?
Speech acts or language micro- and macro-games? Open
In this paper, I will begin with a description of the origins of the speech act theory, and the classifications of speech acts. Then, I will review different camps of thought which had a bearing on our current understanding of speech acts,…
View article: Working on the 'write' path: Improving EFL students' argumentative-writing performance through L1-mediated structural cognitive modification
Working on the 'write' path: Improving EFL students' argumentative-writing performance through L1-mediated structural cognitive modification Open
Based on their scores on a proficiency test, the 894 participants in this study were grouped into three experimental groups (EG) and three control groups (CG). They attempted an argumentative writing task and the Cornell Critical Thinking …
View article: Ellison, Jane L & Hayes, Carolee ed (2014) Cognitive coachingRowman & Littlefield (Lanham MD & Plymouth UK) isbn 978‐0‐4422‐2413‐1 261 pp £18.95 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442224148/Cognitive‐Coaching‐Weaving‐Threads‐of‐Learning‐and‐Change‐into‐the‐Culture‐of‐an‐Organization
Ellison, Jane L & Hayes, Carolee ed (2014) Cognitive coachingRowman & Littlefield (Lanham MD & Plymouth UK) isbn 978‐0‐4422‐2413‐1 261 pp £18.95 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442224148/Cognitive‐Coaching‐Weaving‐Threads‐of‐Learning‐and‐Change‐into‐the‐Culture‐of‐an‐Organization Open
Summary Presupposing that the principles of Cognitive Coaching SM have the potential to transform individuals' identities, this edited volume claims that the same principles can also transform the identities of organisations. However, if y…