Journal Paper

1. "Persian Learners Mastering Kanji: Strategies, Use, and Efficiency"
   Zeinab Shekarabi, Fatemeh Tajfirooz
   Acta Linguistica Asiatica, Vol. 15, No 2, 2025
2. "Exploring Lexical Complexity, Fluency, and Kanji Use in JFL Free Writing"
   Zeinab Shekarabi, Dorna Ebrahimi
   OnCUE Journal, Vol. 16, No 1, 2024
3. "Critical Thinking and Essay Writing: Exploring Free Writing"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   Critical Thinking and Language Learning (CTLL journal), Vol. 11, No 1, 2024
4. "Challenges in Learning kanji: The Perspective of Persian-speaking Learners of Japanese"
   Zeinab Shekarabi, Fatemeh Tajfirooz
   OnCUE Journal, Vol. 15, No 1, 2023
5. "The Relationship between Critical Thinking Ability and Japanese L2 Essay Writing under Outlining Condition"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   Critical Thinking and Language Learning (CTLL journal), Vol. 10, No 1, 2023
6. "Evaluation of a Japanese Language Textbook from Teachers’ and Language Learners’ Perspectives"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   Osaka JALT Journal, Vol. Volume9, 2022
7. "The role of critical thinking in L2 argumentative essay writing: Using free writing strategy"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   Critical Thinking and Language Learning (CTLL journal), Vol. Volume 7, pp.1-29, 2020
8. "Investigating the role of critical thinking in advanced Japanese L2 academic writing using outlining"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   Osaka JALT Journal, Vol. Volume 7, pp.68-80, 2020
9. "Mitigating Japanese L2 Writing Anxiety through Online Peer Feedback"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. 14, No 4, 2025
10. "Anxiety and Writing Performance in Online vs. Face-to-Face Feedback Condition"
    Zeinab Shekarabi
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. 13, No 4, 2024
11. "The views and beliefs of Persian-speaking Japanese as a foreign language learners concerning the learning and teaching of kanji"
    Zeinab Shekarabi, Fatemeh Tajfirooz
    Journal of Foreign Language Research, Vol. 12, No 4, pp.393-415, 2023

Conference Paper

1. "Attitudes of Iranian Japanese Learners towards Japanese Culture"
   Zeinab Shekarabi, Fahimeh Akhavan
   10th International Conference on Language, Literature, History and Civilization, 2023
2. "Learning Style Preferences of first-year JFL students in Iran"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   9th International Conference on Language, Literature, History and Civilization, 2023
3. "イラン人日本語学習者の漢字学習に関する検証"
   Zeinab Shekarabi, Fatemeh Tajfirooz
   109th Conference on Second Language Acquisition (Kanto) KASLA2022, 2022
4. "A survey of Japanese as a Second Language writing anxiety in different contexts(様々な状況における第二言語としての日本語のライティングの不安に関する調査)"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   JASLA Conference 2021_32nd International Conference of Japanese Association of Second Language Acquisition, 2021
5. "Japanese Conditional and Persian Language Learners of Japanese"
   Zeinab Shekarabi, Mitra Abbasi
   47th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition (JALT2021), 2021
6. "L2作文への不安及びL2作文のパフォーマンスに対する長期間に亘るOnline-Peer-FBによる影響"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   108th Conference on Second Language Acquisition (Kanto) KASLA2021, 2021
7. "On line Feedback and L2 Learner’s Anxiety (オンライン・フィードバックと第二言語学習者の不安)"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   Japanese Association of Language Proficiency (JALP) 10th Anniversary Symposium, 2021
8. "The impact of outlining and free-writing strategies on essay quality of L2 Japanese learners: Alphabetic and non-alphabetic L1 speakers"
   Zeinab Shekarabi
   Symposium on Second Language Writing, 2020
9. "Doctoral Students and Writing Group Pedagogy for English Communication: Coaching Research Writing at a Japanese University"
   Karen Carter, Brett Walter, Micky Barbaloa, Zeinab Shekarabi
   XXXIX International VAKKI Symposium, 2019
10. "An Investigation of Refusal Behavior"
    Zeinab Shekarabi, Majid Babazadeh
    51th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition (JALT2025), 2025
11. "Relationship between Understanding the Meaning of Vocabulary and Visual-spatial Intelligence"
    Zeinab Shekarabi, شیدا شیرزاد قلعه رودخانی
    The 58th Conference Japanese Language Education Methods, 2022