Cultural Linguistics and ELT Curriculum

Minoo Alemi is a professor of Applied Linguistics at Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch, 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 Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, and Scientia Iranica. Her areas of interest include materials development, teacher education, interlanguage pragmatics, and robot-assisted language education. She is the co-editor of Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language (with Zia Tajeddin, Routledge, 2021).

Zia Tajeddin is a professor of Applied Linguistics at Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. He co-edits two international journals: Applied Pragmatics (John Benjamins) and Second Language Teacher Education (University of Toronto Press). He is the co-editor of the Springer book series of Studies in Language Teacher Education. His research interests center on teacher education, L2 pragmatics, and EIL/ELF pedagogy. His recently published books include Lessons from Good Language Teachers (with Carol Griffiths, Cambridge University Press, 2020), Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language (with Minoo Alemi, Routledge, 2021), Teacher Reflection: Policies, Practices and Impacts (with Atsuko Watanabe, Multilingual Matters, 2022), Language Education Programs: Perspectives on Policies and Practices (with Carol Griffiths, Springer, 2023), and Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Nexus of Agency, Emotion, and Investment (with Bedrettin Yazan, Routledge, 2024).