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ZOHREH ESLAMI
Department: Teaching, Learning, and Culture
Office#: 358 Harrington Office Building
Mail Stop: 4232
Office Phone: (979) 845-0560
E-mail:
Title: Associate Professor
Primary Emphasis Area: English as a Second Language/ Early Childhood Development
Vita: View Document
Short Bio
Dr. Eslami-Rasekh has more than 10 years experience in ESL/EFL teacher education both in the USA and overseas. She has publications in the area of ESL teacher education, cross-cultural pragmatics, pragmatics and language teaching and intercultural communication.
Research Interests
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
Cultural Issues Related to Second Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Developmental Pragmatics
ESL Teaching Methodology
ESL/EFL Teacher Education
Editorial Positions

Editorial Board Member (2008 - ). Journal of Linguistics Research

Publications*

1. Eslami, Z. R.. & Plett, B. (In-press). High-Stakes Testing and ELLs: L2 Reading Research Applied to the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. TABE. To appear in issue 10#1 (2008).

2. Eslami, Z. R., & Eslami-Rasekh, A. (2008). An empirical study of NNESTs’ pragmatic competence enhancement in an EFL setting. Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing by Eva Alcón Soler and Alicia Martínez-Flor (Eds.). Multilingual Matters.

3. Huang, S., & Eslami, Z. R. (2008). Chinese students’ attitudes toward code-switching. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 12(1), 63-68 *

4. Eslami, Z. R. & Fatahi, A. (2008). Teachers’ sense of self-efficacy, English proficiency, and instructional strategies: A study of nonnative EFL teachers in Iran. TESL EJ, 11 (4) 1-19. Available at http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/a1.html

5. Eslami, Z. R., & Eslami-Rasekh, A. (2007). Discourse markers and academic listening comprehension. Asian EFL Journal, 9(1). Available at http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/March_07_ze&ar.php

6. Eslami, Z., Eslami-Rasekh, A., & Quiroz, B. (2007). English for academic purposes in Iran: A study of perceptions of English needs in academic contexts. ESP Across Cultures 4, 21-36.

7. Eslami, Z. R., & Eslami-Rasekh, A. (2007).Use of address forms by Iranian Moslem women and the effect of religion. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Volume 5.

8. Jia, Y., Eslami, Z. R., and L. M. Burlbaw. (2006). ESL teacher’s perceptions and factors influencing their use of classroom-based reading assessment. Bilingual Research Journal, 20(2) 459-482. Diss

9. Eslami, Z. R., & Noora, A. (2006). Pragmatic Transferability of L1 Request Strategies Perceived by Persian Learners of English. In M. Pütz & J. Neff-van Aertselaer (Eds.), Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (pp.297-328).Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. *

10. Keshavarz, M. H., Eslami, Z. R., & Ghahreman, V. (2006). Pragmatic transfer and Iranian EFL refusals: A cross-cultural perspective of Persian and English. In K.Bardovi-Harlig, J. C. Félix-Brasdefer, and A. Omar (Eds.), Pragmatics and language learning. V. 11 (pp. 359-403). Manoa, HI: Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center University of Hawai’i *

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* Publication was joint-authored with students
Diss Publication was from a dissertation
ROS Publication was from a record of study

Professional Leadership/Service (International/National)

(2004-2005). Financial officer.  Phi Delta Kappa
Courses Taught
Former Doctoral Students
Hee Kyoung (Spring, 2007), Ph.D.
Soo jin Ahn (Fall, 2007), Ph.D.
Chia-Ning Liu (Fall, 2007), Ph.D.
Nano Cox (Spring, 2008), Ph.D.
Kylah Clark-Goff (Spring, 2008), Ph.D.
Kent McLeod (Spring, 2008), Ph.D.
Yeh-Zu Tzou (Summer, 2008), Ph.D.
Burcu Ates (Summer, 2008), Ph.D.
Bethany Plett (Summer, 2008), Ph.D.
Wen-Chun Chen (Summer, 2008), Ph.D.
Wan-Tsai Kung (Summer, 2009), Ph.D.
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