Zia Tajeddin Author & Editor

Zia Tajeddin is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, where he teaches doctoral courses in L2 Pragmatics, Culture and Identity, and Teacher Education. He is the co-editor of Applied Pragmatics (John Benjamins) and sits on the editorial/review boards of many journals such as RELC Journal and TESL-EJ. His research interests center on L2 pragmatics instruction and assessment, classroom discourse analysis, teacher identity and cognition, and EIL/ELF. His recent co-edited volume (with Carol Griffiths) is Lessons from Good Language Teachers (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Minoo Alemi is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Islamic Azad University (IAU), West Tehran Branch, and a post-doctoral associate at Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Iran. She is the founder of Robot-Assisted Language Learning (RALL) and the co-founder of Social Robotics in Iran. She is the associate editor of Applied Pragmatics (John Benjamins) and sits on the editorial/review boards of many journals, including British Journal of Educational Technology, BRAIN, LIBRI, and Scientia Iranica. Her areas of interest include discourse analysis, L2 pragmatics, materials development, and robot-assisted language education.