Mahmoud Arani Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL, TESOL Minor Coordinator
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Bio
Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo
B.A. Teachers’ Training University, Tehran, Iran
I am a professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL. My areas of research interest are in second language acquisition, reading and writing in a second language, the application of discourse/error analysis in teaching reading/writing and developing communicative instructional materials for ESL/EFL students and teacher trainers. Over the years, I have taught a variety of both graduate and undergraduate courses, including second language acquisition, grammar, discourse/error analysis, teaching reading/writing in a second language, and theory and methods in teaching a second language.
I am also interested in peace and justice issues, teach a first-year seminar on peace and justice every fall semester, and a course on approaches to peace every spring semester.