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

	Masood Khoshsaligheh
	Associate Professor
	Department of English
	khoshsaligheh@um.ac.ir
	+985138806768

Programs currently offered by the Department of English

	Bachelor's	Master's	Ph.D
English language and Literature			-
English Language Teaching	-
Translation Studies	-

Academic staff

 

Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh

Associate Professor

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Homepage: http://asgar.profcms.um.ac.ir

Zargham Ghabanchi

Associate Professor

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Homepage: http://ghabanchi.profcms.um.ac.ir

Azra Ghandeharion

Associate Professor

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Homepage: http://ghandeharioon.profcms.um.ac.ir

Behzad Ghonsooly

Professor

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Homepage: http://ghonsooly.profcms.um.ac.ir

Mahmood Reza Ghorban Sabbagh

Associate Professor

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Homepage: http://mrg.sabbagh.profcms.um.ac.ir

Mohammad Reza Hashemi

Professor

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Homepage: http://hashemi.profcms.um.ac.ir

Sara Khazaee

Assistant Professor

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Homepage: http://s.khazai.profcms.um.ac.ir

Masood Khoshsaligheh

Professor

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Homepage: http://khoshsaligheh.profcms.um.ac.ir

Elham Naji Meidani

Assistant Professor

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Homepage: http://elhanaji.profcms.um.ac.ir

Reza Pishghadam

Professor

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Homepage: http://pishghadam.profcms.um.ac.ir

Vahideh Sayedi

Lecturer

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Homepage: http://vsayedi.profcms.um.ac.ir

Shaghayegh Shayesteh

Assistant Professor

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Homepage: http://shayesteh.profcms.um.ac.ir

Farzaneh Shokoohmand

Assistant Professor

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Homepage: http://shokoohmand.profcms.um.ac.ir

Zohreh Taebi Noghondari

Assistant Professor

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Homepage: http://taebi.profcms.um.ac.ir

Research

Recent books

Ghandeharion, A. (2024). A Guidebook to Internationalizing Iranian Universities: Internationalization Strategic Planning: Gui.

Ghandeharion, A. (2024). A Guidebook to Internationalizing Iranian Universities: Strategic Planning of Internationalization i.

Recent journal articles

Kakar, A., Pishghadam, R., & Naji Meidani, E. (2024). Examining the Roles of Sapioemotionality-Angloemotionality and Sensory Motivation in English Language Achievement. Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, (), -.

Sarwari, K., Pishghadam, R., & Shayesteh, S. (2024). Examining the roles of spiritual motivation, religiosity, and L2 WTC in English. Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 9 (1), -.

Hasanzadehhosseinabadi, S., Shayesteh, S., & Pishghadam, R. (2024). Investigating the role of teacher concern in EFL students’ motivation, anxiety, and language achievement through the lens of self-determination theory. Learning and Motivation, 86 (101992), 1-14.

Ghabanchi, Z. (2024). An Investigation into Iranian English Language Learners’ Investment in Imagined Communities. Mextesol Journal, 48 (2), 1-13.

Pishghadam, R., Shayesteh, S., Daneshvar Fard, F., Boustani, N., Seyednozadi, Z., Zabetipour, M. (2024). Cognition-Emotion Interaction during L2 Sentence Comprehension: The Correlation of ERP and GSR Responses to Sense Combinations. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 53 (1), -.

Sanatipour, S., Shayesteh, S., Pishghadam, R., & Boustani, N. (2024). Designing and Validating a Brainling Model: A Case of High School and Language School Textbooks. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 16 (1), 1-20.

Ghandeharion, A. (2024). Strategic Planning of Internationalization in the Legal Infrastructure of Iranian Universities: Aligning Faculty Promotion Regulations with Global Standards. A Guidebook to Internationalizing Iranian Universities, 1 (1), 96-132.

Hasan, J., & Ghabanchi, Z. (2024). Overrepresentation and underrepresentation of cohesive devices in EFL learnersrsquo; translated and free narrative writings. Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, (), -.

Al Khanfar, A., & Ghabanchi, Z. (2024). The effect of Flipped Classroom Model on teaching Grammar and Reading Comprehension: The case of Iraqi intermediate EFL learners at University of Kufa. , 14 (36), -.

Khoshsaligheh, M., Ahadi Farkoush, N. (2024). Rendition of non-verbal acoustic elements for film audiences with hearing impairments. Babel - International Journal of Translation, 70 (6), 759-782.

Khoshsaligheh, M., & Badiozaman, F. (2024). JC Penet. Working as a Professional Translator. London: Routledge, 2024. 226pp. ISBN 9781003220442. Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, 11 (1), 121-135.

Pishghadam, R., Boustani, N., Shayesteh, S. (2024). Audio-visual entrainment, cranio-electro stimulation, and sensory involvement: rival effects on attention and L2 vocabulary retention. Applied Psycholinguistics, 45 (6), 1067-1085.

Recent theses and dissertations

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