Mahtab Janfada
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New Book: Navigating TESOL Objectives and Core Principles (Routledge)
By Rod Neilsen, Hossein Shokouhi Navigating TESOL is a comprehensive, research-based resource which serves as a practical guide for students of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) for the duration of their master’s or certificate program. It also serves as a resource for university educators and language teachers who wish to know more about key aspects […] -
Transcending multiliteracies pedagogies in, for, through AI
Janfada, M., Heidari, E., & Lin, A. (2025). Transcending multiliteracies pedagogies in, for, through AI-oriented learning spaces: a dialogic perspective. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2025.2563621 This study frames AI as a dialogic partner that temporarily links human knowledge with technology to reimagine multiliteracies. Drawing on Deleuze’s assemblage theory and Bakhtin’s chronotope, it uses a story-making […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/lale/2025/10/05/transcending-multiliteracies-pedagogies-in-for-through-ai
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Persian deixis in the flow of conversation
Shokouhi, H. (2025). Persian deixis in the flow of conversation. Studia Linguistica. 1–20. http://doi.org/10.1111/stul.12259 ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse-deictic and recognitional. The data from which […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/lale/2025/05/29/persian-deixis-in-the-flow-of-conversation
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Special Issue on Language Assessment & Equity
Full SI on :Equity Orientations for Validity Frameworks: Exploring the Intersections of Language and Assessment for Language-Minoritized Learners: is now available: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hcil20/22/1 in which I contributed a piece on IELTS and Equity issues: The pain, the pedagogy, and the politics of IELTS: a critical autobiographical inquiry https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15427587.2024.2415646. Mirhosseini, S. A., Janfada, M., & Iranmanesh, L. […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/lale/2025/04/05/special-issue-on-language-assessment-equity
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Special Issue on “Considering Emotions as Entanglements in Applied Linguistics”
Emotional (Dis/Un)entanglement in Becoming an Academic in the Neoliberal Era: Dialogising Transnational Accounts of Being, Thinking and Feeling. This paper, by Mahtab Janfada, Angel M. Y. Lin, Fei Victor Lim, Jiajia Eve Liu, explores the complex emotions and affective challenges that academics might experience in their journey of becoming within neoliberal higher education contexts transnationally. […]