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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.