Author = Mahmood Hashemian
Number of Articles: 5
1. Vocabulary Learning by Iranian Adult L2 Learners via Extensive Viewing of Subtitled and Captioned TV Series
Volume 40, Issue 1 , Winter 2021, , Pages 83-115
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
2. Lexis-Based Instruction and IELTS Candidates’ Development of L2 Speaking Ability: Use of Formulaicity in Monologic Versus Dialogic Task
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Summer 2016, , Pages 69-98
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
3. A Pragmatic Study of Requestive Speech Act by Iranian EFL Learners and Canadian Native Speakers in Hotels
Volume 33, Issue 2 , Summer 2014, , Pages 1-25
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
4. Effects of Focus-on-Form(s) Instruction on Iranian Intermediate L2 Learners’ Metaphorical Competence Development
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Spring 2013, , Pages 1-17
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
5. Cross-Cultural Differences and Pragmatic Transfer in English and Persian Refusals
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Autumn 2012, , Pages 23-46