Zohreh R Eslami
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 204122 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Zohreh R Eslami |
| PRENOMES | Zohreh R |
| SOBRENOME | Eslami |
| ASSINATURA | ESLAMI Z R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2969-5056 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Introduction
Emotions play a pivotal role in shaping the processes and outcomes of second and foreign language (L2) education. While positive emotions have been widely recognized for their facilitative effects, negative emotional experiences, such as anxiety, boredom, frustration, and burnout, continue to pose significant challenges for both language learners and teachers. Despite growing scholarly interest, research on the dynamics and trajectories of negati…
Sociopragmatics
The term “sociopragmatics” was initially proposed by Leech (1983) to describe (the study ofc) how pragmatic meanings reflect “specific ‘local’ conditions on language use” (p. 10). Emphasizing the social side of pragmatics (sociopragmaticsc), compared to its linguistic side (pragmalinguisticsc), indicates the primacy of speakers over utterances. Focusing on interlocutors in the process of interaction relates to social identities, positioning of in…
Reading Interventions to Support English Learners with Disabilities in High School
This systematic review summarizes the reading intervention literature for English learners (ELs) with disabilities in high school. A robust and exhaustive electronic search of ERIC, PsycINFO, Education Source Ultimate, and Academic Search Ultimate databases using keywords such as “reading interventions”, “English learners”, “disabilities”, and “high school” was performed for the period from 1975 to July 2024. To be included in this review, partic…
Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian
There has been ongoing research contrasting online vs. Face-To-Face (FTF) interactions for more than a decade. This study fills the gap in the literature considering FTF vs. online contexts by comparing the norms and patterns of complimenting in Persian and explores the complimenting strategies, syntactic patterns, and internal and external modifiers used in each setting. The corpus included 366 FTF compliments related to the topic of appearance.…
New Constitution in Nepal
When Nepal promulgated a new constitution in 2015, discourse around the 'New Nepal', post-monarchical rule, was powerful; the new constitution was perceived as a landmark text to provide a clear vision for New Nepal's overall development. The poor state of Dalits' human rights and educational realities were widely cited as critical issues requiring attention and expedited intervention during the constitution-writing process. Almost a decade later…
Parental Perceptions of Bilingual Education
Identity, politeness and discursive practices in a changing world
This special issue continues the discussion of the impact of culture on identity, communication, politeness, and discourse strategies (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 22 (4) 2018, 23 (4) 2019, 24 (2) 2020). The topic has become particularly relevant in the context of two multidirectional processes, i.e., globalization resulting from current geopolitical trends and technological advancements, which have encouraged the intensification of contact…
Variation Patterns in Interlanguage Pragmatics
Pragmatic competence consists of both pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic components. The choice of pragmalinguistic strategies aligned with sociopragmatic norms may vary based on situational, cultural, and individual variables. The relationship between these important aspects of second language pragmatic competence, however, is underdeveloped in the literature. To fill this gap, the present paper is aimed at investigating the pragmalinguistic an…
Core Practices Within Second Language Writing Instruction
Recently, researchers have called for more teacher education programs to embrace a practice-based framework for teacher education (PBTE) centered around core practices, but few studies have examined the impact of PBTE beyond coursework, particularly as it influences the instruction of emergent bilinguals. This qualitative case study follows the clinical teaching journeys of three preservice teachers PSTs to see how their participation in a PBTE p…
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father
Recent scholarship has viewed fatherhood from a variety of angles of encounter. In this paper studies that focus on the trope of authoritarian fatherhood in the Arab World were reviewed; extensive variability emerged as to what constitutes authoritarian parenting as well as how it is experienced by children. The authors conclude that current scholarship supports the notion of emergent fatherhood as suggested by Inhorn (2012, 2016) and explore the…
ZPD-based mediation of L2 learners’ comprehension of implicatures
Conversational implicatures (CIMs) are implied by the speaker in context rather than being linguistically encoded, and learners’ inability to infer the intended meaning, if not remedied through instruction (or mediation), leads to communication breakdowns. Given this premise, the current study aimed to examine effects of classroom praxis-based instruction adjusted to EFL learners’ Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) on their comprehension of CIMs.…
EMI and the international branch campus
Transnational higher education (TNHE), often based on export models of Western-based universities and driven by neoliberal market economy agendas, has spread across the globe. One example of TNHE is Qatar’s Education City where six prestigious American international branch campuses (IBCs) all administer their degrees through English medium instruction (EMI). While there is a burgeoning amount of research investigating and problematizing issues in…
A critique of Taiwan’s bilingual education policy through a Road-Mapping of teacher experiences
Bilingual education is spreading throughout the world as an approach for teaching content and language simultaneously. This is particularly true in Taiwan where implementation of bilingual education has begun as directed by the Blueprint for Developing Taiwan into a Bilingual Nation by 2030. However, the spread of bilingual education is often coupled with policies influenced by monolingual ideologies. This collaborative autoethnography critically…
From English as the medium to English as a medium
Political Discourse, Code-Switching, and Ideology
Language and Ideology is an area of critical discourse analysis that has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The vast influence of the media has provided a need for the explicit analysis of common linguistic mechanisms, particularly those in political discourse. Codeswitching, general pattern in a speech community of switching between two or more available languages or dialects with respect to certain extralinguistic factor…
Rater variation in pragmatic assessment
The present study investigates variability among raters from different linguistic backgrounds, who evaluated the pragmatic performance of English language learners with varying native languages (L1s) by using both self- and peer-assessments. To this end, written discourse completion task (WDCT) samples of requesting speech acts from 10 participants were collected. Thereafter, the participants were asked to assess their peers’ WDCTs before assessi…
Second Language Pragmatics
From Theory to Practice was written as a multidisciplinary collaboration by three outstanding and prolific authors from three different countries, each of whom propounds a different perspective on the field of second language pragmatics (henceforth L2 pragmatics). The main impetus behind the book is to revitalize the field of L2 pragmatics, both theoretically and methodologically, beyond the frameworks which have been highly influenced by politen…
Attitudes toward EMI in East Asia and the Gulf
In order to raise global profiles of universities, governments around the world have pushed universities to offer English medium instruction (EMI) courses. While research examining the attitudes toward EMI has been conducted in various countries, these studies generally look at a single university and rarely examine attitudes between countries or regions. In order to investigate attitudes from a macro perspective, this study used a systematic lit…
Chinese-English bilinguals’ online compliment response patterns in American (Facebook) and Chinese (Renren) social networking sites
The relationship between bilingual experience and the development of morphological and morpho-syntactic awareness
This study aims to examine the relationship between bilingual experience and children's development of morphological and morpho-syntactic awareness. To capture both universal and language-specific bilingual effects, the study included four groups of participants: English-speaking children from a general education programme, Spanish-speaking and English-speaking children from a Spanish–English dual-language programme, and Chinese-speaking children…
Incorporating world Englishes into undergraduate ESL education courses
English has become the language of global communication and users around the globe are adapting it to meet their needs. It is essential for teachers to keep pace with the changing expectation of its users to be able to prepare students for the realities they encounter in today's globalized world. The purpose of our study was to incorporate world Englishes perspectives into required undergraduate ESL education courses in a teacher education progra…
The role of asynchronous computer mediated communication in the instruction and development of EFL learners' pragmatic competence
Exploring the variability dynamics of wedding invitation discourse in Iran
Understanding Why Students Drop Out of High School, According to Their Own Reports
Research on school dropout extends from early 20th-century pioneers until now, marking trends of causes and prevention. However, specific dropout causes reported by students from several nationally representative studies have never been examined together, which, if done, could lead to a better understanding of the dropout problem. Push, pull, and falling out factors provide a framework for understanding dropouts. Push factors include school-conse…
Effect of language proficiency and degree of formal training in simultaneous interpreting on working memory and interpreting performance
The influence of second language proficiency and length of formal training in interpretation on simultaneous interpreting (SI) performance and working memory was examined in Mandarin–English student interpreters with one year ( n = 11) or two years of formal training in interpretation ( n = 9) and in 16 Mandarin–English untrained bilingual controls. SI performance was significantly better in Year 2 than in Year 1 student interpreters, and in Year…
Presentation of local and international culture in current international English-language teaching textbooks
The place of culture in teaching English as an international language (EIL) is a complex issue, given the diversity of contexts in which English is currently being used globally. Building on a sociocultural perspective that language use is open to negotiation and is context-dependent, this paper argues that the design and content of English-language teaching (ELT) textbooks should reflect the multiple perspectives inherent in EIL. Findings from a…
Invitations in Persian and English
The present study describes the defining features of Persian genuine and ostensible invitations based on a collection of spontaneous Persian invitations and the results of interview data. The results are compared with the structure of invitations in English reported by Isaacs and Clark (1990). The framework for data collection and data analysis designed by Isaacs and Clark and their results were used in this study. Our results show that the struc…
Understanding Why Students Drop Out of High School, According to Their Own Reports
Research on school dropout extends from early 20th-century pioneers until now, marking trends of causes and prevention. However, specific dropout causes reported by students from several nationally representative studies have never been examined together, which, if done, could lead to a better understanding of the dropout problem. Push, pull, and falling out factors provide a framework for understanding dropouts. Push factors include school-conse…
From English as the medium to English as a medium
Incorporating world Englishes into undergraduate ESL education courses
English has become the language of global communication and users around the globe are adapting it to meet their needs. It is essential for teachers to keep pace with the changing expectation of its users to be able to prepare students for the realities they encounter in today's globalized world. The purpose of our study was to incorporate world Englishes perspectives into required undergraduate ESL education courses in a teacher education progra…
A critique of Taiwan’s bilingual education policy through a Road-Mapping of teacher experiences
Bilingual education is spreading throughout the world as an approach for teaching content and language simultaneously. This is particularly true in Taiwan where implementation of bilingual education has begun as directed by the Blueprint for Developing Taiwan into a Bilingual Nation by 2030. However, the spread of bilingual education is often coupled with policies influenced by monolingual ideologies. This collaborative autoethnography critically…
Attitudes toward EMI in East Asia and the Gulf
In order to raise global profiles of universities, governments around the world have pushed universities to offer English medium instruction (EMI) courses. While research examining the attitudes toward EMI has been conducted in various countries, these studies generally look at a single university and rarely examine attitudes between countries or regions. In order to investigate attitudes from a macro perspective, this study used a systematic lit…
Chinese-English bilinguals’ online compliment response patterns in American (Facebook) and Chinese (Renren) social networking sites
Exploring the variability dynamics of wedding invitation discourse in Iran
The role of asynchronous computer mediated communication in the instruction and development of EFL learners' pragmatic competence
Parental Perceptions of Bilingual Education
Core Practices Within Second Language Writing Instruction
Recently, researchers have called for more teacher education programs to embrace a practice-based framework for teacher education (PBTE) centered around core practices, but few studies have examined the impact of PBTE beyond coursework, particularly as it influences the instruction of emergent bilinguals. This qualitative case study follows the clinical teaching journeys of three preservice teachers PSTs to see how their participation in a PBTE p…
ESL Teachers' Perceptions and Factors Influencing Their Use of Classroom-Based Reading Assessment
This paper reports on a qualitative study that examined English as a second language (ESL) teachers' perceptions of classroom-based reading assessments. ESL teachers' use of classroom-based reading assessments, their understanding about the function and effectiveness of this assessment method, and the factors influencing this assessment process are presented. Six middle school and 7 elementary school ESL teachers participated in this study. Data …
Invitations in Persian and English
The present study describes the defining features of Persian genuine and ostensible invitations based on a collection of spontaneous Persian invitations and the results of interview data. The results are compared with the structure of invitations in English reported by Isaacs and Clark (1990). The framework for data collection and data analysis designed by Isaacs and Clark and their results were used in this study. Our results show that the struc…
ESL Teachers' Perceptions and Factors Influencing Their Use of Classroom-Based Reading Assessment
This paper reports on a qualitative study that examined English as a second language (ESL) teachers' perceptions of classroom-based reading assessments. ESL teachers' use of classroom-based reading assessments, their understanding about the function and effectiveness of this assessment method, and the factors influencing this assessment process are presented. Six middle school and 7 elementary school ESL teachers participated in this study. Data …
Presentation of local and international culture in current international English-language teaching textbooks
The place of culture in teaching English as an international language (EIL) is a complex issue, given the diversity of contexts in which English is currently being used globally. Building on a sociocultural perspective that language use is open to negotiation and is context-dependent, this paper argues that the design and content of English-language teaching (ELT) textbooks should reflect the multiple perspectives inherent in EIL. Findings from a…
Effect of language proficiency and degree of formal training in simultaneous interpreting on working memory and interpreting performance
The influence of second language proficiency and length of formal training in interpretation on simultaneous interpreting (SI) performance and working memory was examined in Mandarin–English student interpreters with one year ( n = 11) or two years of formal training in interpretation ( n = 9) and in 16 Mandarin–English untrained bilingual controls. SI performance was significantly better in Year 2 than in Year 1 student interpreters, and in Year…
Exploring the variability dynamics of wedding invitation discourse in Iran
Understanding Why Students Drop Out of High School, According to Their Own Reports
Research on school dropout extends from early 20th-century pioneers until now, marking trends of causes and prevention. However, specific dropout causes reported by students from several nationally representative studies have never been examined together, which, if done, could lead to a better understanding of the dropout problem. Push, pull, and falling out factors provide a framework for understanding dropouts. Push factors include school-conse…
The role of asynchronous computer mediated communication in the instruction and development of EFL learners' pragmatic competence
The relationship between bilingual experience and the development of morphological and morpho-syntactic awareness
This study aims to examine the relationship between bilingual experience and children's development of morphological and morpho-syntactic awareness. To capture both universal and language-specific bilingual effects, the study included four groups of participants: English-speaking children from a general education programme, Spanish-speaking and English-speaking children from a Spanish–English dual-language programme, and Chinese-speaking children…
Incorporating world Englishes into undergraduate ESL education courses
English has become the language of global communication and users around the globe are adapting it to meet their needs. It is essential for teachers to keep pace with the changing expectation of its users to be able to prepare students for the realities they encounter in today's globalized world. The purpose of our study was to incorporate world Englishes perspectives into required undergraduate ESL education courses in a teacher education progra…
Chinese-English bilinguals’ online compliment response patterns in American (Facebook) and Chinese (Renren) social networking sites
Second Language Pragmatics
From Theory to Practice was written as a multidisciplinary collaboration by three outstanding and prolific authors from three different countries, each of whom propounds a different perspective on the field of second language pragmatics (henceforth L2 pragmatics). The main impetus behind the book is to revitalize the field of L2 pragmatics, both theoretically and methodologically, beyond the frameworks which have been highly influenced by politen…
Attitudes toward EMI in East Asia and the Gulf
In order to raise global profiles of universities, governments around the world have pushed universities to offer English medium instruction (EMI) courses. While research examining the attitudes toward EMI has been conducted in various countries, these studies generally look at a single university and rarely examine attitudes between countries or regions. In order to investigate attitudes from a macro perspective, this study used a systematic lit…
Political Discourse, Code-Switching, and Ideology
Language and Ideology is an area of critical discourse analysis that has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The vast influence of the media has provided a need for the explicit analysis of common linguistic mechanisms, particularly those in political discourse. Codeswitching, general pattern in a speech community of switching between two or more available languages or dialects with respect to certain extralinguistic factor…
Rater variation in pragmatic assessment
The present study investigates variability among raters from different linguistic backgrounds, who evaluated the pragmatic performance of English language learners with varying native languages (L1s) by using both self- and peer-assessments. To this end, written discourse completion task (WDCT) samples of requesting speech acts from 10 participants were collected. Thereafter, the participants were asked to assess their peers’ WDCTs before assessi…
ZPD-based mediation of L2 learners’ comprehension of implicatures
Conversational implicatures (CIMs) are implied by the speaker in context rather than being linguistically encoded, and learners’ inability to infer the intended meaning, if not remedied through instruction (or mediation), leads to communication breakdowns. Given this premise, the current study aimed to examine effects of classroom praxis-based instruction adjusted to EFL learners’ Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) on their comprehension of CIMs.…
EMI and the international branch campus
Transnational higher education (TNHE), often based on export models of Western-based universities and driven by neoliberal market economy agendas, has spread across the globe. One example of TNHE is Qatar’s Education City where six prestigious American international branch campuses (IBCs) all administer their degrees through English medium instruction (EMI). While there is a burgeoning amount of research investigating and problematizing issues in…
A critique of Taiwan’s bilingual education policy through a Road-Mapping of teacher experiences
Bilingual education is spreading throughout the world as an approach for teaching content and language simultaneously. This is particularly true in Taiwan where implementation of bilingual education has begun as directed by the Blueprint for Developing Taiwan into a Bilingual Nation by 2030. However, the spread of bilingual education is often coupled with policies influenced by monolingual ideologies. This collaborative autoethnography critically…
From English as the medium to English as a medium
Variation Patterns in Interlanguage Pragmatics
Pragmatic competence consists of both pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic components. The choice of pragmalinguistic strategies aligned with sociopragmatic norms may vary based on situational, cultural, and individual variables. The relationship between these important aspects of second language pragmatic competence, however, is underdeveloped in the literature. To fill this gap, the present paper is aimed at investigating the pragmalinguistic an…
Core Practices Within Second Language Writing Instruction
Recently, researchers have called for more teacher education programs to embrace a practice-based framework for teacher education (PBTE) centered around core practices, but few studies have examined the impact of PBTE beyond coursework, particularly as it influences the instruction of emergent bilinguals. This qualitative case study follows the clinical teaching journeys of three preservice teachers PSTs to see how their participation in a PBTE p…
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father
Recent scholarship has viewed fatherhood from a variety of angles of encounter. In this paper studies that focus on the trope of authoritarian fatherhood in the Arab World were reviewed; extensive variability emerged as to what constitutes authoritarian parenting as well as how it is experienced by children. The authors conclude that current scholarship supports the notion of emergent fatherhood as suggested by Inhorn (2012, 2016) and explore the…
Identity, politeness and discursive practices in a changing world
This special issue continues the discussion of the impact of culture on identity, communication, politeness, and discourse strategies (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 22 (4) 2018, 23 (4) 2019, 24 (2) 2020). The topic has become particularly relevant in the context of two multidirectional processes, i.e., globalization resulting from current geopolitical trends and technological advancements, which have encouraged the intensification of contact…
Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian
There has been ongoing research contrasting online vs. Face-To-Face (FTF) interactions for more than a decade. This study fills the gap in the literature considering FTF vs. online contexts by comparing the norms and patterns of complimenting in Persian and explores the complimenting strategies, syntactic patterns, and internal and external modifiers used in each setting. The corpus included 366 FTF compliments related to the topic of appearance.…
New Constitution in Nepal
When Nepal promulgated a new constitution in 2015, discourse around the 'New Nepal', post-monarchical rule, was powerful; the new constitution was perceived as a landmark text to provide a clear vision for New Nepal's overall development. The poor state of Dalits' human rights and educational realities were widely cited as critical issues requiring attention and expedited intervention during the constitution-writing process. Almost a decade later…
Parental Perceptions of Bilingual Education
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