Department of English

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad’s Department of English was founded in 1956 when it set out to offer an undergraduate program in English Language and Literature. Based at Dr. Ali Shariati Faculty of Letters and Humanities, it is one of the oldest departments at the faculty and the university.

The department is home to sixteen full-time faculty members and over twenty part-time lecturers in three fields of English Literature, English Language Teaching, and Translation Studies. In addition to the initial BA in English Language and Literature, the department offers various graduate programs including three MA programs in English Literature, English Language Teaching, and English and Persian Translation as well as two Ph.D. programs in English Language Teaching and Translation Studies. Several of the said programs are also offered online in distance mode.

Such various programs as well as the international exchanges the department promotes attract both Iranian students and an increasing number of applicants from the neighboring countries to study undergraduate and graduate programs at the Department of English at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.  More

Head of the Department of English
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Associate Professor
Department of English
khoshsaligheh@um.ac.ir
+985138806768


Programs currently offered by the Department of English
Bachelor's Master's Ph.D
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Academic staff

 

Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
Associate Professor
Zargham Ghabanchi
Associate Professor
Azra Ghandeharion
Associate Professor
Behzad Ghonsooly
Professor
Mahmood Reza Ghorban Sabbagh
Associate Professor
Mohammad Reza Hashemi
Professor
Sara Khazaee
Assistant Professor
Masood Khoshsaligheh
Professor
Elham Naji Meidani
Assistant Professor
Reza Pishghadam
Professor
Vahideh Sayedi
Lecturer
Shaghayegh Shayesteh
Assistant Professor
Farzaneh Shokoohmand
Assistant Professor
Zohreh Taebi Noghondari
Assistant Professor

Research

Recent books

Pishghadam, R., & Naji Meidani, E. (2023). Language and Emotion.
Khazaee, S. (2023). Employable English.

Recent journal articles

Al Quraishi, K., Ghandeharion, A., & Taebi Noghondari, Z. (2023). The Plight of Godlessness in Eastern and Western Literature: A Comparative Reading of Absurdity in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Al-Hakim’s The Tree Climber. Religious Inquiries, 11 (2), 251-267.
Khoshsaligheh, M., Elmira Soleimanirad, & Salasiah Che Lah (2023). Review of Theatre Translation: A Practice as Research Model . Palgrave 2021Theatre Translation: A Practice as Research Model, Angela Tiziana Tarantini, 2021. Palgrave. 2021. 251pp. ISBN 978-3-030-70201-4. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 52 (1), 125-128.
Alkola, N., Khazaee, S., & Carol Colatrella (2023). The Clennams’ Secret Information: Gamifying the Secrecy Plot in Little Dorrit. Dickensian, 119 (521), 327-335.
Momenzadeh , S., Pishghadam, R., & Naji Meidani, E. (2023). Examining the Role of Active/Passive Motivation in EFL Teachers’ Burnout and Efficacy. Language Related Research, 14 (1), 1-33.
Afsharrad, M., Pishghadam, R. (2023). A comparison of the added value of subscores across two subscore augmentation methods. International Journal of Language Testing, 13 (1), 109-125.
Pishghadam, R., Naji Meidani, E., Momenzadeh , S., Hasanzadehhosseinabadi, S., & Miri, M. (2023). Economic, social, and cultural capital and ESQ in academic achievement: A comparison of Afghan and Iranian students. Frontiers in Psychology, 14 (), -.
Boori, A., Ghazanfari, M., Ghonsooly, B. (2023). The Construction and Validation of a Q-matrix for Cognitive Diagnostic Analysis: The Case of the Reading Comprehension Section of the IAUEPT. International Journal of Language Testing, (), -.
Royaei, N., Ghonsooly, B., Ghabanchi, Z., & Ahanchian, M. (2023). Scrutinizing the Professional Agency of EFL Teachers: Identifying the Contributors and Manifestations. Mextesol Journal, 47 (2), 1-12.
Eriss, A., & Khoshsaligheh, M. (2023). Stereotypes in a Multilingual Film: A Case Study on Issues of Social Injustice. Languages, 8 (3), 174-200.
Pishghadam, R., Ebrahimi, S., Rajabi Esterabadi, A., & Amin Parsae (2023). Emotions and Success in Education: From Apathy to Transpathy. Journal of Cognition, Emotion and Education, 1 (1), 1-16.
Alsharhanee, H., Ghonsooly, B., & Naji Meidani, E. (2023). Probing the relationship among reading anxiety, mindfulness, reflective thinking, and reading comprehension ability of Iraqi intermediate and advanced EFL learners. Training, Language and Culture, 7 (3), 9-22.
Al-saedi, A., Taebi Noghondari, Z., & Askarzadeh Torghabeh, R. (2023). The Apcalyptic image of the pandemic: An Ecocritical Reading of Albrt Camus\\\' The plague. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Reaserch, 2 (1), 1-11.
Ghonsooly, B. (2023). A Video Game-based Paragraph Writing Instruction vs. Teacher-based Writing Instruction: Examining L2 Learners’ Perception through Dynamic Assessment. Journal of Teaching Language Skills, (), -.
Jalili Kia, M., Ghonsooly, B., Hassan Soodmand Afshar, & Ghabanchi, Z. (2023). Exploring Iranian TEFL Ph.D. Candidates and Faculty Members. Teaching English Language, 17 (2), 287-324.
Khajavian, F., Ghandeharion, A., & Roland Hardenberg (2023). Twinning Literature and Anthropology: A Proposed Theoretical Framework for Litero-Anthropological Research via Exemplary Person, Value Formation and the Good Life. Critical Literary Studies, 7 (2), 1-27.
Hasanzadehhosseinabadi, S., Shayesteh, S., Pishghadam, R., & Naji Meidani, E. (2023). Unveiling the Power of Teacher Concern: Exploring EFL Institute Students’ Perceptions and its Impact on Motivation, Anxiety, and Language Achievement. Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 15 (23), 126-143.
Ghabanchi, Z. (2023). EFL Learnersrsquo; Perceptions of Interaction-based Learning and Their lrm;Willingness to Communicate. Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, (), -.
Khoshsaligheh, M. (2023). Replotting and recharacterisation in dubbing: Renarration of audiovisual fiction. The Translator, 30 (2), 162-178.
Khoshsaligheh, M., & Zoraqi, A. (2023). Review of The Translation of Realia and Irrealia in Game Localization: Culture-Specificity between Realism and Fictionality. Popular Communication, 22 (1), 64-74.
Albalawee, H., Pishghadam, R., & Shayesteh, S. (2023). The Relationships between EFL Studentsrsquo; Cultural Intelligence, Emo-Sensory Intelligence, Language Learning Strategies, and English Language Achievement. Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, (), -.
Khoshsaligheh, M., Zoraqi, A. (2023). Persian game localization scene in Iran: taking stock. Perspectives Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 31 (4), 1-19.
Ghazanfari, M. (2023). A Contrastive Analysis of Disagreement Speech act Used by Native Speakers of English and Iraqi EFL Learners in light of Politeness Strategies. Journal of Contemporary Language Research, 2 (3), 139-148.

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Recent research projects


Contact Information

Iran, Mashhad, Azadi Square, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Dr. Ali Shariati Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Department of English Language and Literature

Phone: +985138796829-33

Fax: +985138794144

Postal code: 917794883