Vocabulary Learning by Iranian Adult L2 Learners via Extensive Viewing of Subtitled and Captioned TV Series
Vocabulary Learning by Iranian Adult L2 Learners via Extensive Viewing of Subtitled and Captioned TV Series

Shahab Mazahery; Mahmood Hashemian; Javad Alipour

Volume 40, Issue 1 , January 2021, , Pages 83-115

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2021.39209.2921

Abstract
  Television can be considered a rich, helpful, and valuable source to expose L2 learners to huge amounts of comprehensible input so that they can improve their L2 knowledge and, in particular, ...  Read More
Lexis-Based Instruction and IELTS Candidates’ Development of L2 Speaking Ability: Use of Formulaicity in Monologic Versus Dialogic Task
Lexis-Based Instruction and IELTS Candidates’ Development of L2 Speaking Ability: Use of Formulaicity in Monologic Versus Dialogic Task

Azizullah Mirzaei; Mahmood Hashemian; Mahshid Azizi Farsani

Volume 35, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 69-98

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2016.3816

Abstract
  Although lexis research (e.g., Lewis, 1997; Taguchi, 2008) has already evidenced the possibility of teaching formulaic sequences (FS), further research is still needed to examine the ...  Read More
A Pragmatic Study of Requestive Speech Act by Iranian EFL Learners and Canadian Native Speakers in Hotels
A Pragmatic Study of Requestive Speech Act by Iranian EFL Learners and Canadian Native Speakers in Hotels

Mahmood Hashemian

Volume 33, Issue 2 , July 2014, , Pages 1-25

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2014.2043

Abstract
  This study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by Iranian nonnative speakers (NNSs) of English and Canadian native speakers (NSs) of English to find out ...  Read More
Effects of Focus-on-Form(s) Instruction on Iranian Intermediate L2 Learners’ Metaphorical Competence Development
Effects of Focus-on-Form(s) Instruction on Iranian Intermediate L2 Learners’ Metaphorical Competence Development

Mahmood Hashemian

Volume 32, Issue 1 , May 2013, , Pages 1-17

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2013.1491

Abstract
  Recent developments in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance and the ubiquity of metaphors in language. Their effect has been instrumental in making significant headway ...  Read More
Cross-Cultural Differences and Pragmatic Transfer in English and Persian Refusals
Cross-Cultural Differences and Pragmatic Transfer in English and Persian Refusals

Mahmood Hashemian

Volume 31, Issue 3 , October 2012, , Pages 23-46

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.620

Abstract
  This study aimed to examine cross-cultural differences in performing refusal of requests between Persian native speakers (PNSs) and English native speakers (ENSs) in terms of the frequency ...  Read More