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Biography

Prof. Minoo Alemi received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (TEFL) from Allameh Tabataba’i University in 2011. She is currently a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch. She is the founder of Robot-Assisted Language Learning (RALL), the co-founder of Social Robotics in Iran, and a research associate member of the Social Robotics Laboratory of the Center of Excellence in Design, Robotics, and Automation (CEDRA) at Sharif University of Technology. Her areas of interest include discourse analysis, inter-language pragmatics, materials development, and RALL. Dr. Alemi has been the recipient of various teaching and research awards from Sharif University of Technology, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Islamic Azad University- West Tehran Branch, and Int. Conf. on Social Robotics (ICSR2014). She has presented and published over 85 papers and books in refereed national and international conferences, ISI journals, journals like the Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, TESL Canada Journal, and Int. Journal of Social Robotics.

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Employment (1)

IAU: Tehran, IR

2022-06-15 to present | Professor (ELT)
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Minoo Alemi

Works (9)

Scaffolding principles of content-based science instruction in an international elementary school

Pedagogies: An International Journal
2024-04-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Zahra Kamrani; Zia Tajeddin; Minoo Alemi
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Language Teachers' Gendered Identity

2024-01-19 | Book chapter
Contributors: Zia Tajeddin; Minoo Alemi; Zahra Maleknia
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Politeness markers in emails of non-native English speaking university students

Russian Journal of Linguistics
2023-12-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Minoo Alemi; Zahra Maleknia
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A cross-cultural study of condolence strategies in a computer-mediated social network

Russian Journal of Linguistics
2021-12-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Minoo Alemi; Niayesh Pazoki Moakhar; Atefeh Rezanejad
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Exploring the Reasons Behind Iranian TEFL Graduate Students’ Academic Failure

Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
2021-07-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Minoo Alemi; Atefeh Rezanejad; Bijan Marefat
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State-of-the-Art Visual Merchandising Using a Fashionable Social Robot: RoMa

International Journal of Social Robotics
2021-06-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Ahmad Zibafar; Ehsan Saffari; Minoo Alemi; Ali Meghdari; Leila Faryan; Ali Ghorbandaei Pour; Amin RezaSoltani; Alireza Taheri
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The Integration of Verbal Humor into EFL Classrooms: The Issues of Appropriateness and Relevance in Focus

Journal of Language and Education
2021-03-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Minoo Alemi; Hessameddin Ghanbar; Atefeh Rezanejad
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A Stakeholder-based Evaluation of Engineering ESP Courses’ Effectiveness

2020-08-18 | Other
Contributors: Minoo Alemi; Saeedeh Jafari Pazoki
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An innovative approach of incorporating a humanoid robot into teaching EFL learners with intellectual disabilities

Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
2019-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Minoo Alemi; Shirin Bahramipour
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Peer review (6 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Asian-Pacific journal of second and foreign language education. (1)
Review activity for International journal of social robotics. (5)