Faculty Profile for Nasim Layegh

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Nasim Layegh
Doctoral Teaching Assistant — Curriculum And Instruction
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phone: (512) 245-6839
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Nasim Layegh is currently a doctoral student in Developmental Education and an instructor of record at Texas State University. She holds a master's degree in English Language Teaching and a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature.

Teaching Interests

 Reading & Writing skills

Research Interests

 Language and Ideology - Developmental Education - Educational Linguistics - Metaphor Theory

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Dezhkameh Bejoshin, A., Layegh, N., & Hadidi, Y. (2021). A Critical Discourse Analysis of Covid-19 in Iranian and American Newspapers. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 21(3). Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nasim-Layegh/publication/341277832_A_Critical_Discourse_Analysis_of_Covid-19_in_American_and_Iranian_Newspapers/links/612c9f80c69a4e487967d7e8/A-Critical-Discourse-Analysis-of-Covid-19-in-American-and-Iranian-Newspapers.pdf
  • Layegh, N., Hadidi, Y., & Zohrabi, M. (2020). Revisiting Common Source and Target Domains in Conceptual Metaphors in a Sample of English Fiction: Implications for Literacy Practices and Advanced EFL Pedagogy. International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 8(3), 116–128. Retrieved from https://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJELS/article/view/6206
  • Zohrabi, M., & Layegh, N. (2020). Bidirectionality of Metaphor in Fiction: A Study of English Novels. Applied Linguistics Research Journal, 4(4), 88–99. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nasim-Layegh/publication/339060522_Bidirectionality_of_metaphor_in_fiction_A_study_of_English_novels/links/5f01e83a299bf188160385a8/Bidirectionality-of-metaphor-in-fiction-A-study-of-English-novels.pdf
  • Hadidi, Y., & Layegh, N. (2019). A Comparative Study on Emotion Metaphors in English and Persian Prose Fiction.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Student Government Scholarship, Texas State Student Government. 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: The Arun Raman Memorial Scholarship, College of Education. 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: The Graduate College Scholarship, College of Education. 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship, Philanthropic Educational Organization. 2024 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Student Government Scholarship. 2024 - Present