Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Khatin-Zadeh, Omid"
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The challenge of psychological processes in language acquisition: A systematic review
Banaruee, Hassan; Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Understanding how humans acquire or learn a language has been controversial in various disciplines. Most vigorously, psychologists and linguists have been struggling with models that would represent the processing and ... -
Culture in English Language Teaching: A curricular evaluation of English textbooks for foreign language learners
Banaruee, Hassan; Farsani, Danyal; Khatin-Zadeh, Omid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A critical assessment of the current systematical planning and an in-depth review of the teaching materials efficiently improve fine educational materials to the benefit of developed learning and teaching contexts. In some ... -
Distributed embodiment of metaphorical hope in hand, head, and eyebrow gestures
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Hu, Jiehui; Farina, Mirko; Banaruee, Hassan; Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study aimed to examine the embodied conceptualization of hope through metaphors. We asked a group of participants to discuss their hopes in a semi-structured interview. We examined the types of hand, head, and eyebrow ... -
EFL learners' learning styles and their reading performance
Banaruee, Hassan; Farsani, Danyal; Khatin-Zadeh, Omid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Language learners struggle with achieving their highest reading competence, particularly when they sit standardized tests with authentic advanced passages. The related literature shows a significant gap in suggesting ... -
Embodiment of infinity in mathematics
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Eskandari, Zahra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this article, we discuss the embodiment of infinity as one of fundamental concepts in mathematics. In contrast to the embodiment of many other mathematical concepts, the embodiment of infinity is an endless dynamic ... -
Gestural Embodiment of Intensifiers in Iconic, Metaphoric, and Beat Gestures
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Hu, Jiehui; Eskandari, Zahra; Banaruee, Hassan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study aimed to examine the gestural embodiment of intensifiers in iconic and metaphoric gestures when these words are used with literal and metaphoric statements. We asked a group of Persian native speakers to listen ... -
Gestural embodiment of spatial schematic information in motion-based and static space-based metaphors
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Eskandari, Zahra; Li, Shan; Banaruee, Hassan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this study, we examined the types of gestures that occurred with motion-based, static space-based, static object-based, and static event-based metaphors. A group of participants listened to three short stories and then ... -
How can transforming representation of mathematical entities help us employ more cognitive resources?
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Breda, Adriana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article discusses the cognitive process of transforming one representation of mathematical entities into another representation. This process, which has been called mathematical metaphor, allows us to understand and ... -
The Impact of Manner Adverb on the Gestural Embodiment of Actions Described by Literal and Metaphoric Sentences
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Hu, Jiehui; Eskandari, Zahra; Banaruee, Hassan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The aim of this study was to examine the impact of manner adverbs on the gestural embodiment of actions that are described by literal and metaphoric sentences. We asked a group of participants to read and then orally retell ... -
Motion events in English textbooks: a cross-linguistic analysis of Path
Banaruee, Hassan; Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Understanding how motion events are encoded and retrieved across languages has significant implications for language teaching, learning, and cognitive linguistics. However, there is hardly any research in this area comparing ... -
Motor strength as a feature of concepts and visual representations
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Hu, Jiehui; Farsani, Danyal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this article, we define motor strength as the extent to which a concept is associated with body movements and the motor system that guides body movements. We extend this notion to one of the features of visual representations ... -
A Review of Studies Supporting Metaphorical Embodiment
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Jiehui, Hu; Eskandari, Zahra; Yanjiao, Zhu; Banaruee, Hassan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper presents a review of studies that have provided evidence supporting metaphorical embodiment. These studies are divided into three categories of behavioral, neuroimaging, and corpus studies. After summing up the ... -
Revisiting the competition model: From formation to pedagogical implications
Banaruee, Hassan; Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Language is a unique phenomenon and special enough to be treated meticulously in its analysis. Several models describe the underlying mechanisms for language acquisition and its processing. One of the most salient ones is ... -
The role of mathematical metaphors and gestures in the understanding of abstract mathematical concepts
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Eskandari, Zahra; Farsani, Danyal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)When a new mathematical idea is presented to students in terms of abstract mathematical symbols, they may have difficulty to grasp it. This difficulty arises because abstract mathematical symbols do not directly refer to ... -
The role of perceptual and action effector strength of graphs and bases of mathematical metaphors in the metaphorical processing of mathematical concepts
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Hu, Jiehui; Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Metaphors that describe an abstract concept in terms of a motion concept are widely used to enhance our understanding of abstract concepts. These metaphors are used not only in our daily language but also in learning ... -
The roles of motion, gesture, and embodied action in the processing of mathematical concepts
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Asadipour Farsani, Danyal; Eskandari, Zahra; Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article discusses perspective and frame of reference in the metaphorical description of mathematical concepts in terms of motions, gestures, and embodied actions. When a mathematical concept is described metaphorically ... -
A Study of the Use of Iconic and Metaphoric Gestures with Motion-Based, Static Space-Based, Static Object-Based, and Static Event-Based Statements
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Asadipour Farsani, Danyal; Banaruee, Hassan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022) -
Transforming dis-embodied mathematical representations into embodied representations, and vice versa: a two-way mechanism for understanding mathematics
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Yazdani-Fazlabadi, Babak (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022) -
The understanding of abstract concepts: a perspective from distributed models of conceptual representation
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Asadipour Farsani, Danyal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This theoretical article looks at the process of understanding abstract concepts from the perspective of distributed models of conceptual representation. According to these models, meanings of concepts are essentially ... -
Understanding perceptual change as a movement in literal and metaphorical sentences
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Eskandari, Zahra; Banaruee, Hassan; Seckel Santis, María José; Asadipour Farsani, Danyal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Results of the studies on the way language and body coordinate in communication (through language and gesture) have significant implications for language, education, and cognitive studies. However, there is a lack of ...