Farah Ghaderi Editor

Karim Sadeghi has a PhD from the University of East Anglia (UK) and is a professor of TESOL at Urmia University (Iran). He is the founding editor-in-chief of Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research (the only Iranian journal in Humanities with a Scopus-SJR-Q1 Top 15% ranking) and serves on the editorial board of several national and international journals including RELC Journal (SAGE), Research in Post Compulsory Education (Routledge), TESOL Journal (Wiley),  Language Testing in Asia (Springer) and Heliyon Education (Elsevier, as Associate Editor). He was selected as Iran's top researcher in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013 and in English Language/Applied Linguistics in 2018. His recent publications have appeared in RELC Journal, System, Assessing Writing, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development and English for Specific Purposes Journal. His recent publications include Assessing Second Language Reading (Springer, 2021) and Talking about Second Language Acquisition (Palgrave, 2022).

Farah Ghaderi holds a PhD from University Putra Malaysia and is an associate professor of English Literature at Urmia University, Iran. She acts as executive manager of Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research. Her main research areas include travel and gender studies, otherness, education and postcolonial studies. Her recent research has focused on gender and intercultural encounters and education and has appeared in RELC Journal, Interventions, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Gender, Place and Culture, Victorian Literature and Culture, Iranian Studies, and Angelaki. Her co-translated work (Robert J C Young’s Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction) was published in Iran in 2012.