Vahid Nimehchisalem
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1197785 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vahid Nimehchisalem |
| PRENOMES | Vahid |
| SOBRENOME | Nimehchisalem |
| ASSINATURA | NIMEHCHISALEM V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5454-1895 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Semantic Acquisition of Telic and Atelic Interpretations in L2 English
Interpreting event completion is a core difficulty in second language acquisition, as it underpins temporal reference and communication. This study investigates how L1 Urdu Pakistani learners of English acquire telicity, a semantic property that distinguishes completed and ongoing events. The analysis centers on bounded and unbounded object noun phrases (NPs) in marking telic/atelic events within accomplishment predicates. In English, telicity is…
A Narrative Inquiry on the Teachers’ Sense of Plausibility of an Experienced Malaysian English Language Teacher
Teachers’ Sense of Plausibility (TSOP) is a state of knowledge of teachers about teaching that develops out of experience. Teachers seem to modify their knowledge of teaching when they are faced with challenges within their own unique work surroundings. The present study investigated the TSOP of one secondary school English Language Teacher, an Expert Teacher with 30 years of classroom teaching experience. This qualitative study is a narrative in…
English Language Teachers’ Speaking Assessment Beliefs and Practices in Malaysian Secondary Schools
This study examines the correlation between Malaysian secondary school English teachers’ speaking assessment beliefs and their actual classroom practices within a classroom-based assessment framework. Adopting a quantitative research approach, data were collected from 98 teachers via a survey, and correlational analysis was employed to examine the strength, direction, and significance of the relationship between their beliefs and practices. The f…
Can ChatGPT Analyze Textual Data? The Case of Conceptual Metaphors in Short Stories of Language Assessment
ChatGPT, a modern artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, has emerged as an unprecedented breakthrough in multiple domains traditionally dominated by humans. Its ability to engage in human-like conversations has the potential to influence the fields of linguistics and education. The fundamental functions of ChatGPT in teaching and learning have been the subject of some research, but its application in textual analysis has received scant attention. …
The Effects of Task Types and Working Memory Capacity on the Writing Production of Chinese EFL Learners
The current study aimed to examine the effects of two types of writing tasks—an independent writing task and an integrated writing task—on 144 Chinese EFL learners’ writing production in terms of fluency, accuracy, lexical complexity, and syntactic complexity. Additionally, it investigated whether the learners’ working memory capacity has a mediating effect on their writing when responding to the two different types of writing tasks. The particip…
Stance Nouns in Argumentative Essays by L2 Malaysian Undergraduates
Stance nouns are an important feature of academic writing since they indicate to the readers how writer’s stance and the arguments are to be interpreted. However, there is a lack of studies in investigating how the L2 undergraduate students use stance nouns in L2 argumentative writing. With the aim to gain more insights into patterns of use of stance nouns in L2 academic writing, this study employed summative content analysis to analyse the patte…
Independent Writing Tasks vs. Integrated Writing Tasks
Despite many studies investigating the effects of task complexity on L2 writing performance, little attention has been given to the specific effects of independent vs. integrated writing tasks and their cognitive demands on EFL learners. This study aimed to address this gap by conducting a comprehensive examination of the cognitive demands exerted by these two types of writing tasks and their effects on linguistic complexity outcomes among 35 Chi…
Mitigation strategies to manage rapport in the interaction between Iraqi veterinary students and their clients
Soliciting accurate information about animals’ medical cases and maintaining harmonious relationships with clients require vets to use several mitigation strategies. This study analysed hedges, bushes, and shields proposed as mitigation strategies by Caffi (2007). In light of the Rapport Management Theory conceptualized by Spencer-Oatey (2008), the analysis was extended to include defining the roles of these strategies in expressing the relationa…
Burnout among Expatriate and Local Instructors in Oman
Burnout, recognized as a psychological syndrome, stems from enduring reactions to emotional and interpersonal obstacles at work. It highlights the tension experienced by individuals within the broader framework of their interactions with their jobs. This phenomenon has attracted considerable attention across diverse professional sectors. With the Middle East’s rapid expansion of tertiary education and reliance on both local and expatriate educato…
A Structural Equation Model on English Learning Self of Middle School Students in China’s Ethnic Minority Populated Area
As the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) is premised on monolingualism, which ignores the cross-cutting properties of multilingual environments, this study investigates the English Learning Self and its structural characteristics of students in a junior high school in a minority-inhabited area of Guizhou Province, China. These ethnic minority students not only learn their native language (minority languages), but also learn Mandarin Chinese, th…
A Scientometric Analysis of Language Teacher Emotions (2004-2022)
Frontline language teachers have experienced anxiety, vulnerability, and emotional burnout as a result of the sudden transition to online teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study extracted Language Teacher Emotions (LTE) literature from the Scopus database during the period 2000-2022. During the first round of data extraction, 169 relevant documents written in English were identified. Furthermore, the researchers conducted a scientometri…
Grammatical Knowledge of English Cleft Constructions among Pakistani ESL Learners across L2 Proficiency Levels and Learning Styles
The study examines the grammatical knowledge of English cleft constructions among Pakistani ESL learners across L2 proficiency levels and learning styles (field-dependent/independent). Cleft constructions have been found to be problematic and difficult to master for Pakistani ESL learners, across proficiency levels and learning styles. Second language learners may encounter greater difficulty in forming cleft constructions (Chu et al., 2014; Chun…
Discourse Markers (DMs) in Classroom Oral Presentation of Arab Postgraduate Students
Towards auto didacticism in the learning of English language in Malaysian universities, students are required to do oral presentations as an academic task such as presentations of articles reviews, book chapter summaries and mini or final project proposals. To conduct these classroom oral presentations, students usually employ a number of technological aids and resources such as computers, overhead projectors and Microsoft PowerPoint software to …
Rhetorical Structures and Cyclical Patterns in Forestry Research Articles
There have been a considerable number of studies on the research article genre (RA) from different perspectives of form and function. However, limited studies have examined the overall organizational structure of articles with all the main sections of the research article, Introduction-Methods-Results-Discussion (IMRD). There are also variations in the IMRD sections of the research article across different disciplines. The present study sought to…
Strategies and Leadership Values in Obama’s Apology Discourse
This study analyses leadership apologies to gain insights into effective leadership performance from the perspective of apologising. The study explores Obama’s leadership qualities that are projected through his apology discourse mainly the strategies used to construct his apologies and values that emerge from them. The study concluded that leadership should be versatile for a leader to be able to perform efficiently in crucial situations. It is …
The Impact of Writing Anxiety, Writing Achievement Motivation, and Writing Self-Efficacy on Writing Performance
Previous studies have examined learner factors such as anxiety, self-efficacy, and achievement motivation in ESL/EFL (English as a second language/English as a foreign language) writing. Studies have affirmed that self-efficacy and achievement motivation could enhance writing performance, whereas anxiety may hinder writing achievement. This study aimed to examine individual differences in Iraqi EFL learners' writing anxiety, writing self-efficacy…
EFL Arab students’ apology strategies in relation to formality and informality of the context
Arab EFL students’ awareness and performance of apologies in formal and informal social contexts were explored. • The most frequent apology strategy was apology with Illocutionary Force Indicating Device (IFID). • Apologies without IFID were respectively the second most common strategies. • Generally, the Arab EFL students performed well in apologizing based on the type of each social context. • The students used more than one strategy to perform…
The Impact of Writing Anxiety, Writing Achievement Motivation, and Writing Self-Efficacy on Writing Performance
Previous studies have examined learner factors such as anxiety, self-efficacy, and achievement motivation in ESL/EFL (English as a second language/English as a foreign language) writing. Studies have affirmed that self-efficacy and achievement motivation could enhance writing performance, whereas anxiety may hinder writing achievement. This study aimed to examine individual differences in Iraqi EFL learners' writing anxiety, writing self-efficacy…
EFL Arab students’ apology strategies in relation to formality and informality of the context
Arab EFL students’ awareness and performance of apologies in formal and informal social contexts were explored. • The most frequent apology strategy was apology with Illocutionary Force Indicating Device (IFID). • Apologies without IFID were respectively the second most common strategies. • Generally, the Arab EFL students performed well in apologizing based on the type of each social context. • The students used more than one strategy to perform…
The Impact of Writing Anxiety, Writing Achievement Motivation, and Writing Self-Efficacy on Writing Performance
Previous studies have examined learner factors such as anxiety, self-efficacy, and achievement motivation in ESL/EFL (English as a second language/English as a foreign language) writing. Studies have affirmed that self-efficacy and achievement motivation could enhance writing performance, whereas anxiety may hinder writing achievement. This study aimed to examine individual differences in Iraqi EFL learners' writing anxiety, writing self-efficacy…
Strategies and Leadership Values in Obama’s Apology Discourse
This study analyses leadership apologies to gain insights into effective leadership performance from the perspective of apologising. The study explores Obama’s leadership qualities that are projected through his apology discourse mainly the strategies used to construct his apologies and values that emerge from them. The study concluded that leadership should be versatile for a leader to be able to perform efficiently in crucial situations. It is …
Discourse Markers (DMs) in Classroom Oral Presentation of Arab Postgraduate Students
Towards auto didacticism in the learning of English language in Malaysian universities, students are required to do oral presentations as an academic task such as presentations of articles reviews, book chapter summaries and mini or final project proposals. To conduct these classroom oral presentations, students usually employ a number of technological aids and resources such as computers, overhead projectors and Microsoft PowerPoint software to …
Rhetorical Structures and Cyclical Patterns in Forestry Research Articles
There have been a considerable number of studies on the research article genre (RA) from different perspectives of form and function. However, limited studies have examined the overall organizational structure of articles with all the main sections of the research article, Introduction-Methods-Results-Discussion (IMRD). There are also variations in the IMRD sections of the research article across different disciplines. The present study sought to…
A Structural Equation Model on English Learning Self of Middle School Students in China’s Ethnic Minority Populated Area
As the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) is premised on monolingualism, which ignores the cross-cutting properties of multilingual environments, this study investigates the English Learning Self and its structural characteristics of students in a junior high school in a minority-inhabited area of Guizhou Province, China. These ethnic minority students not only learn their native language (minority languages), but also learn Mandarin Chinese, th…
A Scientometric Analysis of Language Teacher Emotions (2004-2022)
Frontline language teachers have experienced anxiety, vulnerability, and emotional burnout as a result of the sudden transition to online teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study extracted Language Teacher Emotions (LTE) literature from the Scopus database during the period 2000-2022. During the first round of data extraction, 169 relevant documents written in English were identified. Furthermore, the researchers conducted a scientometri…
Grammatical Knowledge of English Cleft Constructions among Pakistani ESL Learners across L2 Proficiency Levels and Learning Styles
The study examines the grammatical knowledge of English cleft constructions among Pakistani ESL learners across L2 proficiency levels and learning styles (field-dependent/independent). Cleft constructions have been found to be problematic and difficult to master for Pakistani ESL learners, across proficiency levels and learning styles. Second language learners may encounter greater difficulty in forming cleft constructions (Chu et al., 2014; Chun…
Independent Writing Tasks vs. Integrated Writing Tasks
Despite many studies investigating the effects of task complexity on L2 writing performance, little attention has been given to the specific effects of independent vs. integrated writing tasks and their cognitive demands on EFL learners. This study aimed to address this gap by conducting a comprehensive examination of the cognitive demands exerted by these two types of writing tasks and their effects on linguistic complexity outcomes among 35 Chi…
Mitigation strategies to manage rapport in the interaction between Iraqi veterinary students and their clients
Soliciting accurate information about animals’ medical cases and maintaining harmonious relationships with clients require vets to use several mitigation strategies. This study analysed hedges, bushes, and shields proposed as mitigation strategies by Caffi (2007). In light of the Rapport Management Theory conceptualized by Spencer-Oatey (2008), the analysis was extended to include defining the roles of these strategies in expressing the relationa…
Burnout among Expatriate and Local Instructors in Oman
Burnout, recognized as a psychological syndrome, stems from enduring reactions to emotional and interpersonal obstacles at work. It highlights the tension experienced by individuals within the broader framework of their interactions with their jobs. This phenomenon has attracted considerable attention across diverse professional sectors. With the Middle East’s rapid expansion of tertiary education and reliance on both local and expatriate educato…
A Narrative Inquiry on the Teachers’ Sense of Plausibility of an Experienced Malaysian English Language Teacher
Teachers’ Sense of Plausibility (TSOP) is a state of knowledge of teachers about teaching that develops out of experience. Teachers seem to modify their knowledge of teaching when they are faced with challenges within their own unique work surroundings. The present study investigated the TSOP of one secondary school English Language Teacher, an Expert Teacher with 30 years of classroom teaching experience. This qualitative study is a narrative in…
English Language Teachers’ Speaking Assessment Beliefs and Practices in Malaysian Secondary Schools
This study examines the correlation between Malaysian secondary school English teachers’ speaking assessment beliefs and their actual classroom practices within a classroom-based assessment framework. Adopting a quantitative research approach, data were collected from 98 teachers via a survey, and correlational analysis was employed to examine the strength, direction, and significance of the relationship between their beliefs and practices. The f…
Can ChatGPT Analyze Textual Data? The Case of Conceptual Metaphors in Short Stories of Language Assessment
ChatGPT, a modern artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, has emerged as an unprecedented breakthrough in multiple domains traditionally dominated by humans. Its ability to engage in human-like conversations has the potential to influence the fields of linguistics and education. The fundamental functions of ChatGPT in teaching and learning have been the subject of some research, but its application in textual analysis has received scant attention. …
The Effects of Task Types and Working Memory Capacity on the Writing Production of Chinese EFL Learners
The current study aimed to examine the effects of two types of writing tasks—an independent writing task and an integrated writing task—on 144 Chinese EFL learners’ writing production in terms of fluency, accuracy, lexical complexity, and syntactic complexity. Additionally, it investigated whether the learners’ working memory capacity has a mediating effect on their writing when responding to the two different types of writing tasks. The particip…
Stance Nouns in Argumentative Essays by L2 Malaysian Undergraduates
Stance nouns are an important feature of academic writing since they indicate to the readers how writer’s stance and the arguments are to be interpreted. However, there is a lack of studies in investigating how the L2 undergraduate students use stance nouns in L2 argumentative writing. With the aim to gain more insights into patterns of use of stance nouns in L2 academic writing, this study employed summative content analysis to analyse the patte…
Semantic Acquisition of Telic and Atelic Interpretations in L2 English
Interpreting event completion is a core difficulty in second language acquisition, as it underpins temporal reference and communication. This study investigates how L1 Urdu Pakistani learners of English acquire telicity, a semantic property that distinguishes completed and ongoing events. The analysis centers on bounded and unbounded object noun phrases (NPs) in marking telic/atelic events within accomplishment predicates. In English, telicity is…
Psychology (14 obras) · Linguistics (10 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (7 obras) · Mathematics education (7 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Education and Islamic Studies (3 obras)