List of Articles Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur

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  1 - Requesting in an EFL Institutional Context: Comparing and Contrasting WDCT, ODCT, and Role-Play with Natural Method
  Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur Reza Bagheri Nevisi Abdolreza Lowni
  10.30486/relp.2019.665953
  Pragmatic assessment has recently opened up a new line of inquiry for many interested researchers within the realm of L2 pragmatics. Accordingly, different methods have been proposed to assess pragmatic competence. Drawing on request speech act, this study aimed at comp More

  Pragmatic assessment has recently opened up a new line of inquiry for many interested researchers within the realm of L2 pragmatics. Accordingly, different methods have been proposed to assess pragmatic competence. Drawing on request speech act, this study aimed at comparing and contrasting Written Discourse Completion Task (WDCT), Oral Discourse Completion Task (ODCT), and Role-play with the natural method in terms of five dependent variables: length, repetitions, omissions, inversions, and exclamation particles. To this end, 27 intermediate level EFL learners were asked to make two requests with contextual features of low-status, low-imposition, and two requests with contextual features of high-status, low-imposition using each of the three elicitation techniques. Having recorded the natural talk-in interactions of all students and teachers over 15 weeks, the researchers transcribed the gathered data for further in-depth pragmatic analysis. To analyze the data, Chi-Square and binominal tests were run. The findings indicated that role-play yielded the data closest to the natural method in terms of the dependent variables and the differences between role-play and the natural method were less significant than those inherent in WDCT and ODCT. The study implies that more authentic and natural data can be elicited by incorporating features of the natural method into the other pragmatic data collection procedures, namely, WDCT and ODCT. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Politeness in Instagram: The Employment of Gratitude Speech Act by Male and Female English and Persian Users
  Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur Zeinab Sadat Mousavi
  10.30486/relp.2020.1897275.1197
  The present research scrutinized the use of politeness strategies in gratitude expressions of English and Persian users of Instagram. For that purpose, 200 gratitude posts were collected, 100 of which belonged to English users and the other 100 posts were composed by Pe More

  The present research scrutinized the use of politeness strategies in gratitude expressions of English and Persian users of Instagram. For that purpose, 200 gratitude posts were collected, 100 of which belonged to English users and the other 100 posts were composed by Persian users of Instagram. This investigation alsoevaluated gender roles in the production of gratitude utterances. Seeking to discover the politeness patterns for each language on Instagram, the data were analyzed based on Brown and Levinson's (1987) taxonomy of positive and negative politeness strategies. The findings suggested some differences in the use of the second (Exaggeration), the forth (Use of in-group identity markers), and seventh (Presuppose/raise/assert common ground) positive politeness strategies, and the seventh negative politeness strategy (Impersonalizing the speaker and the hearer) between the English and Persian users which might be due to some existent cultural transfer, and regarding the gender investigation, no significant differences were observed between females and males of each language. This is indicative of the idea that Instagram has turned into a distinguished genre of language possessing certain features such as gender-free, direct, and intimate language. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Task-Based Speaking Assessment in an EFL Academic Context: A Case of Summative and Formative Assessment
  Reza Bagheri Nevisi Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur
  10.30486/relp.2021.1939981.1306
  Consistent with the paradigm shift in language assessment from psychometrics to educational assessment, from an examination culture to an assessment culture, the present study was an attempt to compare and contrast the two forms of speaking assessment: Summative and for More

  Consistent with the paradigm shift in language assessment from psychometrics to educational assessment, from an examination culture to an assessment culture, the present study was an attempt to compare and contrast the two forms of speaking assessment: Summative and formative and to see how much consistency existed between the two. To this end, 46 undergraduate Iranian EFL students participated in the study. To achieve the formative assessment, some pedagogic speaking tasks were designed and EFL learners’ speaking abilities were assessed over a three-month period based on pre-determined criteria. As for the summative assessment, a semi-structured interview was conducted at the end of the course, and learners’ performances were assessed by two different raters based on the same criteria. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, MANOVA, and Pearson correlation were utilized. The results indicated a significant agreement between formative assessment of the first-rater and summative assessment of the second-rater. The findings revealed that from both formative and summative perspectives, pronunciation posed the least challenge whereas coherence and range presented the greatest difficulty to EFL language learners. The study implies that the formative and summative assessment procedures will have to be integrated within classroom settings with more emphasis on the former. Manuscript profile
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  4 - Politeness Strategies Used in the Iranian and American Newspapers: The Case of Iran's Nuclear Deal
  Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur Maryam Sadat Sadat Hosseini
  10.30486/relp.2024.1999964.1511
  The appropriate employment of language by politicians can settle many of the current global problems and crises. Iran’s nuclear deal with all its complexities and subtleties is one of the most contentious global issues that demands a lot of tact and prudence on the part More

  The appropriate employment of language by politicians can settle many of the current global problems and crises. Iran’s nuclear deal with all its complexities and subtleties is one of the most contentious global issues that demands a lot of tact and prudence on the part of the politicians to be resolved. Politicians could draw upon different politeness strategies to employ appropriate speech, save the face of others, gain their trust, and resolve problems. Considering the significance of this issue, this corpus based descriptive research investigated the politeness strategies employed in the editorials of Iranian and American newspapers. Fifty news articles from the Tehran Times and New York Times published from May 2019 to June 2022 were investigated according to Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness strategies. These news articles were relevant to Iran's nuclear deal. The findings indicated that the most frequent politeness strategy in the Tehran Times news was the positive politeness strategy and the most frequent politeness strategy in the New York Times news was the negative politeness strategy. Finally, the results of the chi-square test revealed that there is a significant difference in the frequency of politeness strategies use in both newspaper articles. The findings highlight the sociocultural dependency of the politeness concept and imply that cultural differences affect preference for the choice of types of politeness strategies. Manuscript profile