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Role: Alumni

Fatemeh Bordbarjavidi

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Fatemeh Bordbarjavidi (2023) is an Adjunct Faculty at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and an Adjunct ESL Instructor at Shorelight. In addition to receiving her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics & Technology at Iowa State University, she received her MA in...

Kim Becker

Lecturer [ENGL]

Kim Becker earned her PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology in Spring 2022. Her research interests include corpus linguistics and disciplinary academic writing. She earned an MA TESOL at Northern Arizona University and afterward taught ESL for nearly ten years—primarily...

Tom Ballard

Shireen Baghestani

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Shireen Baghestani (2024) is a Ph.D. alumna of the Applied Linguistics and Technology program with interests in language testing and corpus linguistics. Prior to joining Iowa State, she worked as an item writer and rater for various international English proficiency...

Samuel Ascoli

Assistant Teaching Professor [ENGL]

Samuel Ascoli (2015) graduated from ISU's TESL/AL master's program. He previously taught English 302: Business Communication. He still actively follows corpus linguistics, phraseology and formulaic language. His longer-term plans are to continue teaching ESL, EFL, and potentially composition/rhetoric. Major Professor: David...

Secil Akinci

Graduate Assistant [CCE E]

Secil Akinci (2016) holds a B.A. in linguistics from Hacettepe University, Turkey. She has taught EFL courses at Izmir Institute of Technology for three years. While at Iowa State University, she taught English 101B and ESL courses in the Intensive English...

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