Mehrnoush Karimi

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PhD Student at Georgia State University

Combining the expertise of renowned academics and aviation experts, this edited collection draws together the latest research into language in the aviation industry, with a focus on teaching and assessment. Exploring the different practices and challenges within the current teaching and assessment of aviation English, the volume provides highly val...

This e-book brings together 13 chapters written by aviation English researchers and practitioners settled in six different countries, representing institutions and universities from around the globe. The idea of having this publication was conceived during the 8th GEIA Seminar, an event held online, in November 2021, as a consequence of the COVID-1...

This paper introduces the CommonLit Ease of Readability (CLEAR) corpus, which provides unique readability scores for ~ 5000 text excerpts along with information about the excerpt’s year of publishing, genre, and other metadata. The CLEAR corpus will provide researchers interested in discourse processing and reading with a resource from which to dev...

In this paper, we introduce the Commonlit Ease of Readability (CLEAR) corpus. The corpus provides researchers within the educational data mining community with a resource from which to develop and test readability metrics and to model text readability. The CLEAR corpus improves on previous readability corpora include size (N = ~5,000 reading excerp...

https://my.vanderbilt.edu/slrf2020/files/2019/09/Second-Language-Research-Forum-2020_-10.12.pdf

This study explores the relationship between second language writers’ feedback seeking behavior (FSB) and students’ L2 writing performance. Ashford (1983) defined FSB as “the conscious devotion of effort toward determining the correctness and adequacy of behaviors for attaining valued end states” (p. 466). Previous research has considered FSB as a...

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between three teacher-related variables, namely, teaching efficacy, institutional identity and motivational strategy use, with students’ L2 achievement. The study further intended to pinpoint gender differences in each of the aforementioned teacher-related variables. To this end, 120 (60 mal...

This study scrutinized the interaction between gender and risk taking variables in test performance of Iranian EFL learners. The research was conducted on 120 male and female EFL learners from Islamic Azad university of Isfahan (khorasgan). The participants received a Venturesomeness subscale of Eysenck `s IVE questionnaire and were asked to rate e...

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of flipped model of instruction on EFL learners' reading comprehension ability. Moreover, this study aimed at identifying EFL students' attitudes toward flipped model of instruction. To this end, 60 EFL learners studying at an accredited private language institute in Isfahan were first convenientl...

The present study was intended to investigate the challenges that Iranian English Translation students face in translating contracts and agreements and find out the reasons. A descriptive research was conducted on 20 Iranian MA translation students. The participants received a translation task and were asked to translate from English to Persian mea...