ABOUT

Esmaeil Bagheridoust (1968 -), A Professor Emeritus since 2025, is an expert in Applied Linguistics, Teacher Education (TESOL/TESL/TEFL, and TEYL), Language Assessment and Testing, Curriculum Development and Evaluation, Official Translation, and Research Statistics. He was born in a big family and was brought up to be independent. By the age of 18, he passed the University Entrance Examination and that was the first meaningful milestone in his academic life.

He started his educational career in 1990 as a faculty member at the Azad University, South Tehran Branch and Tehran Central Branch. Although teaching various English courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels was his main duty as a faculty member, he embarked on carrying out a large number of research studies of diverse disciplines, composing, editing, and translating a number of books and articles, as well as lecturing in various conferences and seminars locally and internationally. As a TESL/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 and 2007). He has been the supervisor, advisor, reader and judge of more than 150 Master’s theses and doctoral dissertations since 2000. You can find more about his academic works by clicking the links below: