Mohammad R. Hashemi

• PhD in Applied Linguistics
• Associate Professor at Kharazmi University

Despite criticisms questioning its raison d'être (e.g., Giddings & Grant, ), mixed methods research has been welcomed in social research as a methodology in its own right (Greene, ). Recently, it has also been acknowledged and advocated in applied linguistics (Dörnyei, ; Hashemi, ). In an attempt to investigate the status of this relatively new tre...

This commentary advocates the use of mixed methods research—that is the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in a single study—in applied linguistics. Based on preliminary findings from a research project in progress, some reflections on the current practice of mixing methods as a new trend in applied linguistics are put forward. Fur...

The research article, among other academic genres, has attracted researchers’ attention over the past decades. Although sections such as introduction, method, and results and discussion have been addressed in such studies, the mixed methods research (MMR) discussion genre remains underexplored. Thus, the present study aimed at exploring the generic...

The chapter explores issues that are critical to broadening the scope of mixed methods research (MMR) in applied linguistics (AL). Considering the premise that expanding the scope of MMR in AL depends upon expanding its key dimensions, the chapter addresses issues related to the development of these dimensions (i.e., philosophical, theoretical, met...

This article introduces a protocol designed to analyze large corpora for vocabulary profiling, aimed at enhancing corpus-based studies of academic discourse. Given the complexity and volume of data typical in academic fields, this protocol integrates advanced corpus compilation techniques with lexical analysis tools to effectively identify and cate...

While research on language teachers’ engagement in action research (AR) has received a surge of attention, the influence of AR programs on English language teacher agency remains under-examined. This qualitative study explored how ten English language teachers’ perceptions of their agency changed as they participated in an action research engageme...

This study investigated the efficacy of mobile-assisted technical vocabulary learning using digital flashcards compared to traditional paper-based flashcards in enhancement and long-term retention of technical vocabulary among university chemistry students. A total of 46 Iranian university students participated in a randomized controlled trial span...

Foreign language anxiety has long been considered detrimental to second language acquisition to the extent that some teaching methods were based on anxiety reduction in language classrooms. Cognitive bias modification is an almost new procedure for reducing anxiety and depression. The current mixed methods study aimed at investigating the effect of...

Researchers' thorough familiarity with the related literature together with the appropriate implementation of previous studies in academic publications is of crucial importance. Simply put, scientific studies need to address the related literature in a proper manner to get published. The main objective of the current study was to delineate citation...

Given the importance of specialized vocabulary in scientific communication and academic discourse, there is a growing need to create wordlists to address the vocabulary-learning needs of university students and researchers in different subject areas. The current study analyzed a corpus of chemistry research articles (with 278 million running words)...

Despite English teachers’ acknowledgement of the plurality of English and the emergence of different varieties of the language, the actual manifestations of this plurality and the associated principles do not seem to be equally embraced in their classroom approach. Against this background, this study investigated Iranian English teachers’ conceptio...

The present study applies a cultural conceptualizations framework within the multidisciplinary field of Cultural Linguistics to the analysis of gratitude in dissertation acknowledgments (DAs), as a culturally-embedded genre written in Persian and English by native speakers of Persian. Benefitting from a corpus analysis approach to Cultural Linguist...

The present study examined the content and construct validity, and internal consistency of the Academic Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (AERQ) in the Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. The original scale was translated and back-translated between English and Persian. The content validity ratio (CVR), and content validity index (C...

This study explored possible reasons why IELTS candidates usually score low in writing by investigating the effects of two different test designs and scoring criteria on Iranian IELTS candidates' obtained grades in IELTS and World Englishes (WEs) essay writing tests. To this end, first, a WEs essay writing test was preliminarily designed. Then, 17...

The current study examined the use of electronic textbooks designed as mobile applications for learning vocabulary in English among Iranian university students. To this end, 95 university students in an experimental (N = 50) and a control group (N = 45) participated in the study. An explanatory sequential mixed methods design was employed and over...

Developing L2 learners' emotional balance through adaptive regulation is a significant determinant of successful learning. Despite the recent surge of interest in emotion regulation (ER) programs, research on L2 learners' ER strategies is surprisingly underdeveloped. To address this gap, the current qualitative study explored ten L2 learners' under...

The present quantitatively-driven mixed methods study aimed at exploring the effect of musical input as a mode on intermediate L2 learners' knowledge and retention of difficult words. The data were collected in two phases. In the experimental phase, quantitative data were collected from 40 learners. An innovative method was used for the purpose of...

In line with the exponential growth in English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher professional identity research, the present study was an attempt to develop and validate a questionnaire on EFL teacher professional identity. Following Pennington (2015), we defined EFL teacher professional identity as “a unique blend of individual teacher character...

The present action-research study explored the experience of a co-educational class in a context where it was a total educational novelty. Generating data from a number of sources before, during, and after the course, the study portrays how the participants experienced initial challenges followed by mutual adaptability toward the end of the course....

Despite the burgeoning interest in qualitatively studying teacher identity during the past decades, some scholars recommend quantitative analysis of this construct to better capture the protean essence of teacher identity. The present study was an attempt to develop and validate a questionnaire on English language teacher professional identity. A s...

The purpose of the current study was to investigate culture representation in ACT series, a recently developed EFL textbook by Iran Language Institute, with a focus on the visuals. Two models were taken into account for content analysis: Cortazzi and Jin (1990) to investigate the type of culture (i.e., source, target, & international) and Adask...

This study sought to investigate the effect of the two input types interactionally modified input (IM) and textual input enhancement (TIE), the impact of a commonly used learning styles taxonomy as the Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic learning styles (VAK) by itself as well as the interactional effect of perceptual learning styles and input types o...

Although the importance of reading in higher education as an index of success has been highlighted, the metacognitive knowledge or beliefs of graduate students have remained under-researched. This qualitative study reports on a study that, first, examines how graduate students of applied linguistics conceive of academic reading and academic readers...

The present study investigated the effect of dynamic assessment on the learning of congruent and incongruent collocations among Iranian lower-intermediate EFL learners. Forty female students participated in this quasi-experimental study. The experimental group was exposed to dynamic assessment strategies in the process of teaching collocations. The...

The past decade has witnessed a renewed conceptual interest in higher education research, including applied linguistics discipline, which has led to the crafting of research as one of the most effective forms of professional development. This sequential explanatory mixed research study examines the conception of research the applied linguists’ facu...

The past decade has witnessed a renewed conceptual interest in higher education research, including applied linguistics discipline, which has led to the crafting of research as one of the most effective forms of professional development. This sequential explanatory mixed research study examines the conception of research the applied linguists facul...

Over the past decade, mixed methods research has gained particular attention in social and behavioral research as a considerable number of studies investigated theoretical and methodological aspects of conducting mixed methods research. In applied linguistics, however, mixed methods research is a new approach and little research exists on theoretic...

This paper is a critical review of the concept of post-method language teaching. The author first presents a quick review of the history and concept of method and introduces the concept of postmodernism as a source of influence for post-method-ism. The author, then, adopts a critical approach to reviewing the concept of post-method and the idea of...