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Hossein Nassaji

Hossein Nassaji

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
9551
World Ranking
4661
National Ranking
275

Hossein Nassaji publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hossein Nassaji sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 120 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Hossein Nassaji D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hossein Nassaji sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hossein Nassaji is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields including Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Literature and Literary Theory, and Linguistics and Language.

The primary topics of Nassaji's work include:

  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Student Assessment and Feedback
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Writing and Handwriting Education

Among the recent papers published by Nassaji are:

  • Good qualitative research, 2020, Language Teaching Research
  • Assessing the effectiveness of interactional feedback for L2 acquisition: Issues and challenges, 2020, Language Teaching
  • Effect sizes in quantitative and qualitative research, 2021, Language Teaching Research

Nassaji has also been coauthor on publications where the data includes work by others such as "ESL learners' perception and its relationship with the efficacy of written corrective feedback" (2021, International Journal of Applied Linguistics) and "Interventionist and interactionist dynamic assessment of argumentative writing in an EFL program" (2022, System).

Frequent coauthors in Nassaji's research include María-Lourdes Lira-Gonzales, Eva Kartchava, Carol Griffiths, Shahid Abrar-ul-Hassan, and Ali Kushki.

Publication venues frequently featuring Nassaji's work are:

  • Language Teaching Research
  • System
  • Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
  • Language Teaching
  • International Journal of Applied Linguistics

In addition to journal publications, Nassaji has contributed to book publications, including a book titled Lessons from Good Language Teachers published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Qualitative and descriptive research: Data type versus data analysis

    Hossein Nassaji

  • What's the use of 'triadic dialogue'?: an investigation of teacher-student interaction

    H Nassaji;G Wells

  • A Vygotskian Perspective on Corrective Feedback in L2: The Effect of Random Versus Negotiated Help on the Learning of English Articles

    Hossein Nassaji;Merrill Swain

  • L2 Vocabulary Learning From Context: Strategies, Knowledge Sources, and Their Relationship With Success in L2 Lexical Inferencing

    Hossein Nassaji

  • The Relationship Between Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge and L2 Learners’ Lexical Inferencing Strategy Use and Success

    Hossein Nassaji

  • Schema Theory and Knowledge-Based Processes in Second Language Reading Comprehension: A Need for Alternative Perspectives

    Hossein Nassaji

  • Teaching Grammar in Second Language Classrooms : Integrating Form-Focused Instruction in Communicative Context

    Hossein Nassaji;Sandra S. Fotos

  • 6. CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN RESEARCH ON THE TEACHING OF GRAMMAR

    Hossein Nassaji;Sandra Fotos

  • Higher–Level and Lower–Level Text Processing Skills in Advanced ESL Reading Comprehension

    Hossein Nassaji

  • Collaborative and Individual Output Tasks and Their Effects on Learning English Phrasal Verbs.

    Hossein Nassaji;Jun Tian

  • Effects of Recasts and Elicitations in Dyadic Interaction and the Role of Feedback Explicitness.

    Hossein Nassaji

  • Good qualitative research

    Hossein Nassaji

  • Anniversary article Interactional feedback in second language teaching and learning: A synthesis and analysis of current research:

    Hossein Nassaji

  • The Amount, Purpose, and Reasons for Using L1 in L2 Classrooms

    Juliane C. de la Campa;Hossein Nassaji

  • EFL learners’ perceptions and preferences of written corrective feedback: a case study of university students from Mainland China

    Sibo Chen;Hossein Nassaji;Qian Liu

  • Towards Integrating Form-Focused Instruction and Communicative Interaction in the Second Language Classroom: Some Pedagogical Possibilities

    Hossein Nassaji

  • Elicitation and Reformulation and Their Relationship with Learner Repair in Dyadic Interaction.

    Hossein Nassaji

  • The relationship between SLA research and language pedagogy: Teachers’ perspectives

    Hossein Nassaji

  • The Contribution of Phonological and Orthographic Processing Skills to Adult ESL Reading: Evidence from Native Speakers of Farsi.

    Hossein Nassaji;Esther Geva

  • The revision and transfer effects of direct and indirect comprehensive corrective feedback on ESL students’ writing:

    Khaled Karim;Hossein Nassaji

  • Form-focused instruction and teacher education : studies in honour of Rod Ellis

    Sandra Fotos;Hossein Nassaji

Frequent Co-Authors

Esther Geva
Esther Geva University of Toronto
Gordon Wells
Gordon Wells University of California, Santa Cruz
Frank Boers
Frank Boers University of Western Ontario

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