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  1. Metadiscourse Features in two English Translations of the Holy Quran: A Comparative, Corpus-based Inquiry

    Article • Lebende Sprachen, November 2019, De Gruyter

    Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani, Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  2. Assessment of Semantic Adequacy: English Translations of Persian Official Texts in Focus

    Article • Theory and Practice in Language Studies, December 2015, Academy Publication

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  3. Translation and Anxiety: A Study of Anxiety Effect on Translators’ Performance in Terms of Speed and Accuracy

    Article • Theory and Practice in Language Studies, May 2015, Academy Publication

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  4. Translation of Binomials in Hard News: A Contrastive Study of English and Persian

    Article • Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, March 2015, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  5. Translation and Inner State: The impact of Interpreters’ Extraversion/Introversion on Accuracy and Sentence Length

    Article • Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, March 2015, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  6. The effects of integrating ICT resources into reading comprehension in Iranian high school

    Article • International Journal of Research Studies in Language Learning, January 2015, Consortia Academia Publishing

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  7. The effects of input-enhanced instruction on Iranian EFL learners' production of appropriate and accurate suggestions

    Article • Language Learning Journal, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  8. A Comparative Study of the Picture Of Dorian Gray and Its Two Persian Translations in Terms of Cohesive Devices

    Article • Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, September 2014, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  9. A qualitative investigation into the effects of pragmatic instruction on Iranian EFL learners’ production of suggestions and requests

    Article • International Journal of Research Studies in Education, August 2014, Consortia Academia Publishing

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  10. Exploring the effects of input-based instruction on the development of EFL learners’ pragmatic proficiency

    Article • International Journal of Research Studies in Language Learning, June 2014, Consortia Academia Publishing

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  11. Critical contrastive rhetoric in action: Iranian EFL learners' writing in focus

    Article • International Journal of Research Studies in Language Learning, June 2014, Consortia Academia Publishing

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  12. Investigating the effects of explicit and implicit instruction on Iranian EFL learners’ pragmatic development: Speech acts of request and suggestion in focus

    Article • International Journal of Research Studies in Language Learning, June 2014, Consortia Academia Publishing

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  13. Teaching speech acts: Input enhancement versus presentation, practice, and production

    Article • International Journal of Research Studies in Education, May 2014, Consortia Academia Publishing

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  14. A CDA Representation of the May 31, 2010 Gaza-Bound Aid Flotilla Raid

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, May 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  15. Ideological manipulation in subtitling: a case study of a speech fragment by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President of the Islamic Republic of Iran)

    Article • Perspectives, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi, Dr. Rasool Moradi-Joz

  16. Examining mitigation in refusals: A cross-cultural study of Iranian and American speech communities

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, August 2013, Equinox Publishing

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  17. The sport discourse in the Iranian context: ‘Ye Tūp Dâram Ghelghelieh(I have a round ball)

    Article • Journal of Multicultural Discourses, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  18. A contrastive corpus-based analysis of the frequency of discourse markers in NE and NNE media discourse: Implications for a “universal discourse competence”

    Article • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, May 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  19. Back Translation vs. Collaborative Translation: A Comparative Study of Persian Subtitles in English Movies

    Article • Lebende Sprachen, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  20. Technical Translation: A Study of Interference in Three Persian Translations of “Software Engineering”

    Article • Journal of Language Teaching and Research, January 2013, Academy Publication

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  21. Revisiting “Retranslation Hypothesis”: A Comparative Analysis of Stylistic Features in the Persian Retranslations of <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>

    Article • Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, January 2013, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  22. Evaluation in Media Discourse: Contrasts among Journalists in Reporting an Event

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  23. The Power behind Images: Advertisement Discourse in Focus

    Article • International Journal of Linguistics, November 2012, Macrothink Institute, Inc.

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  24. Barriers to technical terms in translation

    Article • Terminology International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication, September 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  25. Key-phrase Allusions and Their Translations: A Focus on Mathnawi

    Article • Asian Social Science, August 2012, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  26. The Use of Indirectness Devices in Persian and English Argumentative Written Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Article • International Journal of Linguistics, August 2012, Macrothink Institute, Inc.

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  27. The combined effects of online planning and task structure on complexity, accuracy and fluency of L2 speech

    Article • Language Learning Journal, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi, Dr Mohammad Javad Ahmadian

  28. The Pedagogical Impact of Discourse Markers in the Lecture Genre: EFL Learners' Writings in Focus

    Article • Journal of Language Teaching and Research, May 2012, Academy Publication

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  29. Free Indirect Discourse in Farsi Translations of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

    Article • CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture, March 2012, Purdue University (bepress)

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  30. Investigating Pragmatic Competence: The Case of Requests in Interchange Series

    Article • Asian Social Science, December 2011, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  31. The Effect of Explicit Strategy Instruction on L2 Oral Production of Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners: Focusing on Accuracy, Fluency and Complexity

    Article • Journal of Language Teaching and Research, September 2011, Academy Publication

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  32. Word Choice and Symbolic Language: A Case Study of Persian Translations of THE SCARLET LETTER

    Article • International Journal of English Linguistics, August 2011, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  33. Translation of Idioms: A Hard Task for the Translator

    Article • Theory and Practice in Language Studies, July 2011, Academy Publication

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  34. The Role of Input Enhancement in Teaching Compliments

    Article • Journal of Language Teaching and Research, March 2011, Academy Publication

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  35. Translation Quality Assessment (TQA): A Semiotic Model for Poetry Translation

    Article • Lebende Sprachen, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  36. Analysis of Power and Threat Manifestation in the Discourse of Traffic Police Officers: A CDA Perspective

    Article • Journal of Language Teaching and Research, January 2011, Academy Publication

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  37. The Relation Between MI and Motivation and Students’ Likes and Dislikes of Course Books: A Comparison Between Interchange and Top Notch Elementary Books

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  38. A Sacramental Wordplay: An Investigation of Pun Translatability in the Two English Translations of the Quran

    Article • Asian Social Science, December 2010, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  39. Teaching Idiomatic Expressions in Context through Focus on Form Techniques

    Article • English Language Teaching, November 2010, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  40. The Application of Humorous Song in EFL Classrooms and Its Effects on Listening Comprehension

    Article • English Language Teaching, November 2010, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  41. The Impact of Instruction on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners‘ Production of Requests in English

    Article • Journal of Language Teaching and Research, November 2010, Academy Publication

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  42. Vocabulary: Challenges and Debates

    Article • English Language Teaching, August 2010, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  43. Patterns of Persian EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Idiomatic Expressions: Reading Strategies and Cross-Cultural Mappings in focus

    Article • Asian Social Science, July 2010, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  44. A Comparative Study of Perception of Politeness of American Reprimands by Iranian EFL Learners and Americans

    Article • The Social Sciences, April 2010, Science Alert

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  45. Lost in translation: An intertextual study of personal proper-name allusions

    Article • Across Languages and Cultures, June 2008, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  46. A reply to Ruixia Yan’s critique on CPD procedure in cloze

    Article • Language Testing, July 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  47. Chain-preserving deletion procedure in cloze: a discoursal perspective

    Article • Language Testing, January 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi

  48. A Cross-Cultural Study of Animal Metaphors: When Owls Are Not Wise!

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, April 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi