Department:

English Preparatory Division

Education:

Ph.D. English Language Education, Ilam University, Iran, 2019

M.A. English Language Education, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

B.A. English Language, Islamic Azad University, Hamedan, Iran

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae:

Expertise in Teaching

I hold a PhD in English Education and a CELTA qualification, with teaching experience dating back to 2004. My career began at Iran Language Institute (ILI), and I have since worked with learners at a wide range of proficiency levels across diverse educational contexts. My work reflects a strong professional commitment to teaching and a focus on informed, reflective, learner-centered practice.

Expertise in Research

My research expertise is situated at the intersection of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, with a strong emphasis on classroom discourse. I examine teacher talk and student written and spoken discourse using move analysis and corpus-based approaches to explore discursive practices, phraseological competence, and functional language use. My broader research interests include how discourse operates within educational settings to shape learning and teaching practices. I have published research in reputable journals such as RELC Journal and Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Awards and Nominations

Received Sabbatical Grant, sponsored by Ilam University for conducting a research project in Bucharest University of Economic studies, Bucharest, Romania (2018).

Recipient of the Distinguished Doctoral Student Award by the Office of Exceptional Talents and Honored Students, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran, (2018)

Publications :

Refereed Journal Articles:

Khany, R., & Malmir, B. (2020). A move-marker list: A study of rhetorical move-lexis

linguistic realizations of research article abstracts in social and behavioral sciences.

RELC Journal, 51(3), 381-396.

Malmir, B., Khany, R., & Aliakbari, M. (2019). Journal Article Highlights in Applied

Linguistics: An Exploration into the Rhetorical Moves and their Lexico-grammatical

Features. Iranian Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 8(4), 49-63.

Samaie, M., & Malmir, B. (2017). US news media portrayal of Islam and Muslims: a corpus-

assisted Critical Discourse Analysis. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49(14), 1351-

1366.

Aliakbari, M., & Malmir, B. (2017). Development and validation of an English language teacher

learning scale. Cogent Education, 4(1), 1292613.

Khany, R. & Malmir, B. (2017). The development and validation of an English language teacher

talk functional scale. Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research 5(2), 37-52

Malmir, B. (2014). A comparison of linguistic errors of Iranian EFL learners at two different

levels of proficiency. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 4(4), 850-856.

Abbasian, G. R., Malmir, B., & IAU, S. T. B. (2012). Consumers’ Evaluation of the Content

Parameters. The Iranian EFL Journal, 224.

Talks / Presentations:

Malmir, B (Oct, 2025). Applying Learner Corpus Tools in the Classroom: A Data-Driven Approach to Collocation Development in EFL Writing. Paper presented at the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Malmir, B (June, 2022). A Discursive Analysis of the Media Compensating Strategies towards the Stereotypical Representation of Islam and Muslims: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Paper presented at 24^th Warwick International Conference in Applied Linguistics, Warwick, England.

Malmir, B. (November, 2019). Move-related Lexis in Research Abstract and Implications for EAP Teaching and Learning. Paper presented at the 7^th International Conference Synergies in Communication, Bucharest, Romania.

Malmir, B. (March, 2017). An Academic Wordlist for Chemistry and its Validity Test. Paper presented at International Conference on Humanities and Educational Research, Houston, Texas, USA.