Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani

ORCID: 0000-0001-7665-2054
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Research Areas
  • Translation Studies and Practices
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • linguistics and terminology studies
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
  • Digital Communication and Language
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Linguistic research and analysis
  • Topic Modeling
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Samuel Beckett and Modernism
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Writing and Handwriting Education

Leipzig University
2017-2023

University of Toronto
2023

Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch
2016-2019

Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch
2013

Background: Translation typically requires concentration in a quiet environment, necessitating commitment to accurately render and deliver the final product clients. This often isolates translators from social interactions, potentially leading loneliness adversely affecting their mental physical health. Objectives: The present study aims investigate prevalence of disconnectedness among translators, examining general health personal characteristics. Methods: descriptive correlational was...

10.5812/healthscope-150584 article EN Health Scope 2025-03-18

Abstract This article reviews Form, Meaning and Function in Collocation: A Corpus Study on Commercial Chinese-to-English Translation

10.1075/ijcl.00047.far article EN cc-by International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2022-05-03

Abstract Discourse markers can have various functions depending on the context in which they are used. Taking this into consideration, corpus-based research, we analyzed and unveiled quantitatively qualitatively of four discourse academic spoken English. To purpose, markers, i.e., “I mean,” think,” “you see,” know,” were selected for study. The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus was used as data gathering source. detect concordance lines carefully read analyzed. quantitative...

10.1007/s44020-022-00005-3 article EN cc-by The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy 2022-05-01

Abstract Metadiscourse features refer to those elements by which interaction between writer-reader and/or speaker-audience is constructed. Taking this into account, the objective of contrastive parallel corpus-based study was explore way metadiscourse were used and distributed in English discourse their translation Persian language as well analyzing translation. For purpose, 30 different TED talks politics randomly selected ensure issues corpus representativeness balance. The consisted 21681...

10.1007/s41701-021-00099-z article EN cc-by Corpus Pragmatics 2021-02-27

Although the bystander effect is one of most important findings in psychological literature, researchers have not explored whether autistic individuals are prone to effect. The present research examines employees more likely report issues or concerns an organization's systems and practices that inefficient dysfunctional. By bringing attention these issues, may foster opportunities improve organizational performance, leading development a adaptive, high performing, ethical culture....

10.1002/aur.3012 article EN cc-by Autism Research 2023-08-24

The aim of this study was to compare and contrast the distribution application metadiscourse features in news writings between English native writers Iranian non-native writers. To end, a comparable corpus written by authors were selected randomly. For theoretical framework, Hyland’s model (2005) exploited. As data represent, more relied than Persian ones on features. Also, revealed that both corpora, interactional preponderant as compared interactive In addition, corpus, hedges most...

10.17507/tpls.0712.12 article EN Theory and Practice in Language Studies 2017-12-03

The present study was a comparative analysis of the inductive and deductive methods in teaching English. Indeed, major aim to compare efficiency these two approaches English grammar by inspecting students’ performance. To this purpose, identical groups German pre-service teachers were randomly selected participate research. Then, topics (future tense conditional sentences) taught them usage PPP method as approach guided discovery technique approach. Regarding methodology, design comparison...

10.18844/gjflt.v8i2.3202 article EN Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 2018-05-29

This paper reports on a research performed in the field of corpus linguistics metadiscourse features British Academic Written English Corpus. For this purpose, Corpus, which is freely available and contains 6,968,089 words, was selected as data resource study. The taxonomy compiled by Hyland used theoretical framework R program statistical software. whole analyzed. As can show, interactive were more prevalent than interactional features. In category, transitions endophoric markers other...

10.5755/j01.sal.0.34.21816 article EN cc-by Studies About Languages 2019-06-03

This paper reports on a comparative study performed in the field of Corpus Linguistics. The objective research was to analyze distributional pattern interactive and interactional metadiscourse features two modes academic spoken written English. For this reason, list characteristics gathered. By using Sketch engine software, all words were scrutinized corpus their concordance lines analyzed one by both corpora (British Academic Written English British Spoken Corpus). As data can show,...

10.18778/1731-7533.18.3.05 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Research in Language 2020-09-30

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible relationship between novice vs experienced EFLs teachers’ Big Five personality traits, ambiguity tolerance and risk taking. To purpose, 30 teachers TEFL courses were randomly selected, three instruments NEO Five-Factor Inventory, Ambiguity Tolerance Scale Risk-taking Propensity Measure employed measure their taking, respectively. Design/methodology/approach study was a quantitative ex post facto study. first phase among...

10.1108/jarhe-08-2018-0172 article EN Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 2019-01-29

Purpose In spite of the growing interest in using corpora language teaching and learning, applying computers software (especially software) is still new second learning. addition, employing a learner corpus-based perspective metadiscourse features International English Language Testing System (IELTS) writing tasks not reported to best knowledge researchers. Understanding spotting this gap, purpose paper utilize approach investigate its possible impacts on IELTS performance Iranian learners....

10.1108/jarhe-10-2018-0222 article EN Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 2019-04-30

10.7575/ijalel.v.2n.1p.112 article EN cc-by International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature 2013-01-01

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect teaching reading comprehension skills on translation quality EFL. In other words, sought see if had statically any significant impact Iranian EFL learners and yes, which skill most predictive learners. order put into practice, these steps were taken. First, in assign subjects homogeneity, an OPT (oxford placement test) given BA students English Literature at Beheshti University. Then, a pre- test pre-test subjects. next step, treatment,...

10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.1p.50 article EN International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature 2014-10-12

Metadiscourse features are the elements that can show presence of writer(s) in writing process. The main objective present study was to run a quantitative corpus-based on way metadiscourse (elements) were used by English native writers and Iranian non-native field Applied Linguistics. To this end, 29 articles Linguistics written speakers non- randomly selected; compiling together corpus 173839 words. Also, for raw data analysis, Sketch engine software exploited researcher. results...

10.24297/jal.v8i1.6441 article EN JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS 2017-11-17

The landscape of deep learning has vastly expanded the frontiers source code analysis, particularly through utilization structural representations such as Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs). While these methodologies have demonstrated effectiveness in classification tasks, their efficacy regression applications, execution time prediction from code, remains underexplored. This paper endeavours to decode behaviour tree-based neural network models context challenges. We extend application established...

10.48550/arxiv.2406.11437 preprint EN arXiv (Cornell University) 2024-06-17

10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.943 article EN Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2024-01-01

Purpose This paper reports on a quasi-experimental research performed in the field of reading comprehension and translation quality. The purpose this is to investigate comparative effect explicit vs implicit skills quality Iranian students at BA level. Design/methodology/approach design was nature. preferred study, as it impossible assign random sampling subjects apply true experimental design. hand also group sense that supposed compare two methods (explicit implicit) with different...

10.1108/jarhe-12-2018-0262 article EN Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 2019-07-26

Abstract The main objective of this study was to make a corpus-based comparison between two English translations the Holy Quran in terms metadiscourse features application and distribution. For purpose, by Itani (2012) Yousef Ali (1992) were selected as corpus study. theoretical framework, model proposed Hyland (2005) utilized. In order check distribution features, Sketch Engine software used. quantitative analysis data revealed that interactive higher frequency than interactional ones....

10.1515/les-2019-0020 article EN Lebende Sprachen 2019-11-05

The present case study attempted to probe into one of most appealing translations "Waiting for Godot", from English Persian, which was manipulated in the process translation and investigate manipulative strategies identify frequent them.The corpus selected this is a bilingual parallel comprising an English-Persian originally French play called Waiting Godot, by Samuel Beckett.The component translated Beckett himself.The Persian component, however, Ali-akbar Alizadeh.The research limited...

10.5861/ijrsll.2016.1316 article EN International Journal of Research Studies in Language Learning 2016-01-01

The current study sought to determine the solutions by which interpreters and/or mediators handled cultural gaps in translation process.In other words, examined how consecutive worked as political contexts.To this end, Dirk Delabastita's model ( 1993) was exploited see what strategies Iranian adopted handle interpretation process.Thus, fifteen took part research and two five-minute audio files were administered English Persian followed a interpreting task from into vice versa.After sessions...

10.5861/ijrse.2016.1635 article EN International Journal of Research Studies in Education 2016-10-19

Purpose The purpose of this paper (experimental–comparative research) is to investigate the possible impacts explicit and implicit teaching Persian structures editing methods on translation performance Iranian undergraduate students. Design/methodology/approach This research enjoyed a quasi-experimental design. A design was used in research, as it impossible assign random sampling subjects. In addition, comparative group study there were two experimental groups with different treatments one...

10.1108/jarhe-11-2018-0240 article EN Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 2019-07-25
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