Esmaeil Bagheridoust

ARAN RESEARCH CENTER

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1st floor, No. 156, Khaje Abdollah Ave.,
Shariati Street, Tehran, IRAN
Tel (9821) 22861186, 22858589-90
Fax (9821) 22852256
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PhD Consultation Program 2010

COURSE SYALLABI

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Following you can check your course syllabus for the Fall Semester of 2009.

1. Professional Testing (MA TEFL and Translation Studies (Fall 2009 IAU-STB)
2. Research and Statistics (MA TEFL and T. Studies - Fall 2009 IAU-STB)
3. Teaching Language Skills (MA TEFL)
4. Curriculum Dvelopment (MA TEFL)
5. Issues in Psycholinguistics (MA TEFL (Spring 2009 IAU-STB)
6. Morphology and Terminology (MA Translation Studies (Spring 2009 IAU-STB)
7. Issues in Phonology and Pronunciation (MA TEFL (Spring 2010))
8. Advanced Writing- MA TEFL and Translation Studies IAU- RSC (Fall 2010)
9. Seminar -MA TEFL (Fall 2009)
10. Listening and Speaking Skills (LAB I) (BA - Fall 2009 IAU - STB)

Power Point Shows

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1. Scrutinizing the Status of EFL in Iran
2. Differential Item Functioning
3. A down-to-earth Macrostrategy to Foster Autodidacts
4. Practical Researching

ABOUT

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Esmaeil Bagheridoust (1968 - ), is an Assistant Professor in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language (TEFL/TESL). He was born in a big family and was brought up in a way to be an autochthonous individual. By the age of 18, he passed the University Entrance Examination and that was how he started his academic life.
He started his educational career in 1990 as a faculty member at the Islamic Azad University, Tehran South Branch and Tehran Central Branch. Although teaching different English courses at undergraduate and graduate levels was his main duty as a faculty member, he embarked on carrying out a number of researches, composing, editing, and translating a couple of books and articles, as well as participating in a number of conferences and seminars inside and outside the Iran. As a TEFL advisor and researcher, he took the chance to be the secondary research assistant at the University of Ottawa (2005) and the visiting scholar of the University of Texas at Austin (2006 -2008). He has been the advisor and reader and judge of more than 50 MA theses and the statistics consultant of more than 100 MA and PhD dissertations and researchers. For the time being, he is the faculty member of the TEFL department of the college of Science of Humanities at Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch http://www.azad.ac.ir/

WHAT'S NEW

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News is always fresh with no mistake in it. The filed of pure and applied linguistics as well as research are always fresh and subject to change. Scholars in the field come up with new approaches and testify their ideas to promote the present systems. I try to provide readers with a selection of new concepts and approaches in education, curriculum development, psychology, linguistics, research, and language testing. This part will be refreshed almost every season. Click the titles below to download the articles!
TESOL 2009 (Some selected articles)
Intelligibility
Are we barking up the wrong tree?
Unidimentionality
Triangulation
Test Score Pollution
Validity Generalization
Curriculum Differentiation
Processability Theory
Differential Item Functioning
IRT
Applied Hermenutics
Test Fairness, Item Bias, and DIF

BOOKS

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Bagheridoust is very much interested in writing, editing, and compiling books and articles. He has attempted during the last few years to compose English books related to the field of both applied and pure linguistics. He is also engrossed in psychology and philosophy as two mother sciences. His enthusiasm to research drives him towards atomistic and quantitative works. Some parts of the books he has written, translated and edited are available here;

Language Testing (2001) (4th edition 2008)

Shahid Mahdavi Publications, Tehran
This book is a concise and precise collection of both theoretical and statistical concepts of language testing. The book is divided up into two parts; the fundamental concepts, and the new trends in Language Testing. The book starts with the rudiments of testing …

The Basics of Morphology (2006), Rahrovan Publications, Tehran
The book pays a close look at the preliminary concepts of morphology, morphemics, and morphological analysis. Chapters are designed to familiarize the readers with the morphological processes as well as word formation. The last chapter of the book fun- with-words is a …

The Principles of Teaching Foreign Languages (2006), Rahrovan Publications, Tehran
PTFL provides readers with a swift and practical way of dealing with teaching theories, methods and procedures. The ratified and endorsed by the ministry of higher education to be taught to undergraduate and graduate students of TEFL. Language teaching methods along with their supporting approaches …

No Man’s Heritage (2002), Saless Publications, Tehran
This book is a translation of a Persian novel, based on the true life story of and Iranian doctor who won the peace prize, Dr. Keyvan Kavoosi. This translation was among the UNESCO top ten books for the peace prize. The story begins by a chilly winter night, when …

Fundamental Issues in Linguistics (2009), IAU Publications, Tehran
This book is a shortcut to the perception of the preliminary concepts of Linguistics and language. The scientific study of the language in terms of the knowledge of sounds, words, word order, meaning, and context is the main focus of the book. The idea of …

National Maternal Mortality Surveillance System” (2003), UNFPA, IRAN
This book is a translation of a country project in the form of research concerning the death of mothers before and after child delivery. The project is related to WHO, UNDP, and UNFPA in Iran where most of the UN…

A series of books for the UEE applicants involving Testing Language Skills, Concepts of Linguistics and Teaching Methodology (Parse Publications, Tehran)

IELTS Speaking Skill (ISS), (2007) (In Process)

LECTURES

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Lecturing and poster presentations are the indispensable part of researching. When a researcher carries out research, he/she would like to let other people know about the results. Call for papers could be the starting point of applying for the conferences, seminars and symposiums. Following you can find a number of his lectures and presentations;

Invited speaker to The University of New Delhi, India (2003) International Conference on Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, Presented a paper titled “Anglobalization and Language Teaching”. This article discusses the issues of the macro policy of the speakers of the English language. In this lecture I am going to primarily cast light on the formation of the English language out of Germanic, and then the new trends concerning Globalization (Internationalization and Localization) will be…

Invited speaker to the University of Roma Tre, Italy (2005) The XXXI Conference on Transformational Generative Grammar of Noam Chomsky, Presented a research paper titled “Syntactic development of First Language Acquisition”. The full article is accessible
in the Articles section.

Invited speaker to the University of Texas at Austin, USA, (2006) The Department Foreign Language Education, College of Education, Presented a lecture on Culture Disintegration vs. Culture Integration in Language Teaching. In this comparative and descriptive study, the researcher particularly talks about the comparison and contrast of teaching language as well as culture in EFL contexts casting light on the two dimensions of teaching culture along with language. The disintegration of culture from language leading …

Invited speaker to the University of Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran (2004) presented a paper on Revisiting Lexemes. The main idea underlying this paper is to revisit the major tenets of Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology (LMBM) …

Invited speaker to Islamic Azad University, Tehran (2003), presented a paper on Language and Thought. What dislinguistics human from the other animals? And can people think without implicit speech? Are the basic questions …

Invited speaker to Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch (2006), presented a paper on IEEs and ITQs (International English Examinations and International Teacher’s Qualifications). Teachers and learners of English as a Foreign language can take part in international examinations to be considered as qualified …

Invited Speaker to the University of Reading, Reading, England (2007), presented a paper and poster on Child Language Acquisition. This study focuses on the course of development of syntax in the first thirty months of a child’s life. It proceeds into two major directions. The first direction is concerned with the description of the order of grammatical development. It ..

Invited speaker to the Department of the English Language, Karaj University (2007), delivered a lecture on Blending Psychological factors with language teaching skills. The focus of the talk is to equip the EFL learners and teachers with the macrostrategy to develop autodidacts and …

Invited speaker to TEXFLEC2008, The Department of Foreign Language Education. Presented a Poster on Devloping Persian Diagnostic Acheivement Test: PDAT. The focus of the paper is to investigate the effectiveness of the curriculum at the department of the Middle eastern Studies of UT. The outcome ...

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ARTICLES

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Researching both in qualitative and quantitative ways, or a combination of both (Qual-quant continuum, Triangulation) seem to wet this researcher’s appetite. Although very young and fresh in the filed, Bagheridoust has proposed a number of research topics concerning applied linguistics and language teaching. He carried out a number of researches regarding L1 acquisition, L2 learning, and language teaching programs in general. Following you can find a number of such articles and research papers:

Strategic Teaching of Writing at the Tertiary Level (2002), ROSHD Quarterly, Tehran
The article is mainly focused on the explication and use of the Post-Method Condition for the proposition of Macrostrategies and Microstrategies of Language Teaching especially in writing. The idea of process-focused approach to writing …

Syntactic Development in L1 Acquisition, (2006). Pazad Scientific Quarterly, Tehran
This article focuses the development syntax as well as morphology of an Iranian child, Arshia, during 30 first months of his life. In this research paper, the researchers prominently discuss …

A down-to-earth macrostrategy to foster autodidacts (2007), Taganrog Teaching Quarterly, Russia
This article is an attempt to promote learner autonomy and self-esteem in developing foreign language. It was with much piquancy that I began to carry out this research at Azad University in Tehran, given my long-standing commitment to attempt to provide Iranian undergraduate …

Self-Esteem and Personality Factors, (2003). The Readings Quarterly, INDIA
This article discusses the ideas behind the relationship between self-esteem and personality factors for the promotion of language leaning and the lowering of the affective filters during the process of language development. Self-esteem and self-concept both …