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Heidari Kaidan, Zhila; Jalilifar, Alireza; Don, Alexanne – Cogent Education, 2021
The present study explored nominalization use in a sample of research articles (RAs) of various types in physics and applied linguistics. To this end, 134 RAs from the related journals of these disciplines were carefully selected and studied to identify occurrences of nominalization. Results indicated that the authors in applied linguistics…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Journal Articles, Physics, Applied Linguistics
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Jalilifar, Alireza; White, Peter; Malekizadeh, N. – International Journal of English Studies, 2017
Given the importance of disciplinary specificity in terms of the potential differences in the functionality of nominalizations in scientific textbooks and the dearth of studies of this type, the current study explores the extent to which nominalization is realized across two disciplines. To this aim, eight academic textbooks from Physics and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Physics