On Anthropomorphism in Technology-Enhanced Language Learning: Does Modality Matter in Agent-Based Multimedia Instruction on L2 Idioms?
On Anthropomorphism in Technology-Enhanced Language Learning: Does Modality Matter in Agent-Based Multimedia Instruction on L2 Idioms?

Rahman Sahragard; Alireza Ahmadi; Hamed Babaie Shalmani

Volume 35, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 123-160

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2016.3782

Abstract
  The present study aimed to satisfy a twofold purpose: On the one hand, it sought to verify the postulation that agent-based instruction could offer a compromise approach to teaching ...  Read More
TEXTUAL AND INTER-TEXTUAL ANALYSES OF IRANIAN EFL UNDERGRADUATES’ TYPES OF ENGLISH READING TOWARDS DEVELOPING A CAREFUL READING FRAMEWORK
TEXTUAL AND INTER-TEXTUAL ANALYSES OF IRANIAN EFL UNDERGRADUATES’ TYPES OF ENGLISH READING TOWARDS DEVELOPING A CAREFUL READING FRAMEWORK

Asma Dabiri; Naser Rashidi; Mahbobeh Saadat; Rahman Sahragard; Zahra Alimorad

Volume 34, Issue 4 , March 2016, , Pages 29-55

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2016.3657

Abstract
  This study investigated textual and inter-textual reading of a group of Iranian EFL undergraduates’ careful English reading types. In this research, Khalifa and Weir’s (2009) ...  Read More
The Effect of Lexical Collocational Density on the Iranian EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension
The Effect of Lexical Collocational Density on the Iranian EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension

Shiva Sadighi; Rahman Sahragard

Volume 32, Issue 1 , May 2013, , Pages 111-136

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2013.1495

Abstract
  The present study aims at investigating the effect of different levels of lexical collocational density on EFL learners’ reading comprehension. Eighty sophomore students with ...  Read More
The Role of Conceptualizable Agent in Overpassivization of English Unaccusatives in Iranian English Majors
The Role of Conceptualizable Agent in Overpassivization of English Unaccusatives in Iranian English Majors

Rahaman Sahragard; Firooz Sadighi; a Abbasi Bagherianpour

Volume 29, Issue 3 , September 2010, , Pages 141-162

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.419

Abstract
  The present study is an attempt to explore the effect of one of the pragmatic elements of discourse (namely the conceptualizable agent) on overpassivization of English unaccusative ...  Read More
The Representation of Social Actors In Interchange Third Edition Series: A Critical Discourse Analysis
The Representation of Social Actors In Interchange Third Edition Series: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Rahman Sahragard; G Davatgarzadeh

Volume 29, Issue 1 , March 2010, , Pages 67-89

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.401

Abstract
  This study takes a critical discourse analysis approach to investigate the linguistic representation of male and female social actors and construction of gender identities in the Interchange ...  Read More