Dr. Azar Tajabadi is a recent doctorate graduate in Teaching English from Arak University, Iran. She is a part-time lecturer at Arak and Mofid Universities where she teaches language skills, assessment, and research courses. Her research interests are corrective feedback, learners’ interactions, and teaching approaches. She is the recipient of the TESOL 2021 Distinguished Research Award for her paper published in Language Teaching Research journal and she will be speaking about how teaching supports and informs your research and vice versa and how research and practice directly inform each other and the larger research community.

Tune into TESOL’s 2021 Distinguished Research Award Recipient Dr. Tajabadi’s keynote via Zoom on Tuesday, 23 March from 12:30 p.m. – 1 p.m. U.S. ET.

https://zoom.us/j/91099563781 Meeting ID: 910 9956 3781 Passcode: 439555

Bedrettin Yazan is associate professor in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He serves teacher candidates at undergraduate and graduate levels and works with doctoral students in Culture, Literacy, and Language program. His research focuses on language teacher learning and identity, collaboration between ESL and content teachers, language policy and planning, and World Englishes. Methodologically he is interested in critical autoethnography, narrative inquiry, and qualitative case study. His recent edited volume (with Suresh Canagarajah and Rashi Jain) is Autoethnographies in ELT: Transnational identities, pedagogies, and practices.

Zhongfeng Tian is an Assistant Professor of TESOL/Applied Linguistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College. Theoretically grounded in translanguaging, his research centers on working with classroom teachers to provide bi/multilingual students with equitable and inclusive learning environment in ESL and dual language immersion contexts, and preparing culturally and linguistically competent teachers with social justice orientations. He has published articles in TESOL Quarterly, System, Applied Linguistics Review, and Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts. He is also the co-editor of two books: “Envisioning TESOL through a Translanguaging Lens: Global Perspectives” (Springer, 2020) and “English-Medium Instruction and Translanguaging” (Multilingual Matters, 2021).