Elham Farahani

Education

MSc. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) , Arak University , Iran (2008 - 2011)
Thesis title: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Los Angeles Times and Tehran Times on the Representation of Iran’s Nuclear Program and the Pedagogical Implications
PhD. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) , Arak University , Iran (2014 - 2019)
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Research activities

Journal Papers

Reading Strategies Used by High Scoring and Low Scoring IELTS Candidates: A Think-aloud Study Mousa Ahmadian, Sima Poulaki, Elham Farahani (2016)

What is the truth? A demonstration of language manipulation in two newspapers and the pedagogical implications Elham Farahani, Mousa Ahmadian (2014)

A Critical Discourse Analysis of The Los Angeles Times and Tehran Times on the Representation of Iran‟s Nuclear Program Mousa Ahmadian, Elham Farahani (2014)

The Effect of Task Complexity on Iranian EFL Learners Listening Comprehension across Aptitude Elham Farahani (2014)

Conference Papers

Developing an Academic Idiom List: A Diachronic Corpus-based Study on Applied Linguistics Research Articles Elham Farahani (2025)

Shedding Light on the Use of Idioms in Applied Linguistics Research Articles Elham Farahani, Mousa Ahmadian, Sima Poulaki (2017)

Theses

From Arabic to English: The Effect of Translanguaging Techniques on Iraqi EFL University Learners’ Writing Fluency and Cohesion Elham Farahani, Hamid Varmazyari, Ahmed Mohsin Abdulameer (2026)

Negotiating Power through AI Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Klara’s Narrative in Ishiguro’s Klara and The Sun Elham Farahani, Masoud Keshavarz, Benin Rasool Faham (2025)

A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis of Lexical Repetition and Its Role in Constructing Narrative Voice in Ian McEwan’s Atonement Elham Farahani, Mohammad Ghaffary, Mustafa Amer Hussein (2025)

A Corpus-based Study of Academic Vocabulary in Western Philosophy Research Articles Mousa Ahmadian, Elham Farahani, Saeedeh Samari (2025)

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Research interests

Corpus Linguistics
English for Research Publication Purposes
Idioms and Collocations
Critical) Discourse Analysis)

Head of English Language and Literature (1398 - 1402)
Translator and English Editor of the Journal of Human Rights (1394 - 1403)

Elham Farahani

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