Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Banaruee, Hassan"
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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 ... -
The effect of type of task on EFL learners’ vocabulary learning
Eskandari, Zahra; Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Banaruee, Hassan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Depth of processing vocabulary has been the subject of heated discussion among vocabulary researchers. Yet, current literature lacks research comparing different tasks to investigate the acquisition of vocabulary knowledge ... -
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 ... -
Enhancement of perceptual and cognitive functions in near-death experience: A perspective from embodiment theories
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Eskandari, Zahra; Farsani, Danyal; Banaruee, Hassan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The phenomenon of near-death experience (NDE) is attracting a growing attention among researchers of various fields. In this study, we looked at NDE from a cognitive perspective to find out how NDE events are embodied when ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Prime effects in metaphor comprehension: comparing congruent and opposite schematic primes
Khatin-Zadeh, Omid; Farsani, Danyal; Eskandari, Zahra; Li, Lin; Banaruee, Hassan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study investigates the role of priming in the process of metaphor comprehension focusing on both literal and gesture-based primes under congruent and opposite conditions. We conducted a two-stage experiment to explore ... -
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 ... -
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) -
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 ...