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 Teacher
s (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).