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Associate Professor
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship in Persian and Iranian Studies
Director of Persian and Iranian Studies Program
Assistant Teaching Professor
Associate Teaching Professor
Latest News
- MELC Summer Study Abroad: Arabic Language and Culture in Morocco! (January 9, 2026)
- Announcing a New Book by Prof. Amina Moujtahid (April 12, 2024)
- Prof. Melike Yücel-Koç Receives Language Educator of the Year Award (February 28, 2024)
- Tech-Enhanced Language Learning: Navigating Innovative Platforms for MELC language Courses (February 21, 2024)
- Prof. Hussein Elkhafaifi Receives Lifetime Achievement Award (January 4, 2024)
Related Research
- Monfaredi, E. (2022). Exiting a Storytelling Sequence in Persian Language Classrooms. In A. Filipi, B.T. Ta, & M. Theobald (Eds), Storytelling Practices in Home and Educational Contexts (pp. 261-282). Springer.
- Monfaredi, E. (2022). Student-initiated Storytelling in Classroom Interaction. Classroom Discourse, 1-29.
- Kasper, G., & Monfaredi, E. (2021). Storytelling as instructional practice in Persian language classrooms. In J. Wong & H. Z. Waring (Eds.), Storytelling in multilingual interaction: A conversation analysis perspective (pp. 119–161). Routledge.
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans), edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg (University of Washington Press, 2018) - Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections.
- “An Exploration of Listening Strategies: A Descriptive Study of Arabic Learners". Al-cArabiyya 40 (2008), 71-86.
- 2006 *“Professional standards for Arabic teachers,” in T. Wahba, and England L., eds., Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century. With Mahdi Alosh, and Salah Hammoud . New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, Inc., 2006, pp. 409-417. Equal responsibility for authorship.
- 2005 *“Listening Comprehension and Anxiety in the Arabic Language Classroom," The Modern Language Journal 89 (2005), 206-220.
- 2005 “The Effect of Prelistening Activities on Listening Comprehension in Arabic Learners," Foreign Language Annals. 38 (2005), 505-513.
- 2001 “Teaching Listening in the Arabic Classroom: A Survey of Current Practice” Al- cArabīyya 34 (2001) 55-90.