Department of English
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad’s Department of English was founded in 1956 when it set out to offer an undergraduate program in English Language and Literature. Based at Dr. Ali Shariati Faculty of Letters and Humanities, it is one of the oldest departments at the faculty and the university.
The department is home to sixteen full-time faculty members and over twenty part-time lecturers in three fields of English Literature, English Language Teaching, and Translation Studies. In addition to the initial BA in English Language and Literature, the department offers various graduate programs including three MA programs in English Literature, English Language Teaching, and English and Persian Translation as well as two Ph.D. programs in English Language Teaching and Translation Studies. Several of the
Such various programs as well as the international exchanges the department promotes attract both Iranian students and an increasing number of applicants from the neighboring countries to study undergraduate and graduate programs at the Department of English at
| Masood Khoshsaligheh |
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| Associate Professor |
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| Department of English | |
| khoshsaligheh@um.ac.ir |
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| +985138806768 |
| Bachelor's | Master's | Ph.D | |
| English language and Literature |  |
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Academic staff
Research
Recent books
Khazaee, S., Fayazi, A., Nikou, A., & Khadem, F. (2025). Picturesque Shakespeare.
Moqaddam Mottaqi, A., Ghonsooly, B., هادی رحیم زاده, & موید عمران چیاد (2025). English for the Students of Theology An ESP course.
Recent journal articles
Moradi, E., & Ghabanchi, Z. (2025). Learning Mode and Bias in the Application of Reading Strategies: A Comparative Study Between Conventional and Distance Education. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 55 (1), 41-62.
Ansarifar, A., & Ghazanfari, M. (2025). A multi-dimensional analysis of thesis abstracts: Variation across academic levels and L1 backgrounds. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 73 (1), 101465-101481.
Moradi, E., & Ghabanchi, Z. (2025). Scrutinizing the role of foreign language reading anxiety in the application of cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies. Learning: Research and Practice, 11 (2), 208-224.
Zahedi, S., & Khoshsaligheh, M. (2025). Reading of Humor-added Subtitles of Foreign Films in Persian: An Eye-tracking Study. , 16 (3), 1-24.
Ghandeharion, A. (2025). Ridley Scott’s Gladiator: Foucauldian Power Dynamics, the Clash of Discourses, and the Unattainability of a Dream. Analele Universitatii Ovidius Constanta, Seria Filologie, 35 (2), 136-156.
Mirabi, S., Yousofi, A., & Ghandeharion, A. (2025). Development Policies and Discursive Conflicts in Contemporary Iranian Sexuality. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 22 (4), 1974-1992.
Pishghadam, R., Ebrahimi, S., & Jahani, Z. (2025). Examining the role of emo-sensory intelligence in teaching burnout, teaching interest, and teachers success. Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 10 (9), 1-21.
Fatollahi, M., & Hashemi, M. (2025). Literary Translator Competence from the Iranian Teachers’ Perspective: A Qualitative Approach. New Voices in Translation Studies, 30 (1), 1-30.
Soudkhah Mohammadi, F., Shayesteh, S., & Pishghadam, R. (2025). EFL Teacher Concern Teacher Success and EFL Learners' Self-efficacy: Learners’ Perspectives. Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 13 (1), 85-103.
Naji Meidani, E., Momenzadeh , S., Hasanzadehhosseinabadi, S., Kolahiahari, M., & Jalili Kia, M. (2025). Perceptions of Bilingualism in the Iranian EFL Context: Minimalist or Maximalist Approach. Teaching English Language, 19 (1), 437-471.
Badiozaman, F., & Khoshsaligheh, M. (2025). Iranian Sworn Translators’ Perceptions Regarding Their Work-Related Satisfaction, Happiness, and Burnout. Applied Linguistics Inquiry, 3 (2), 55-68.
Kolahiahari, M., Ghonsooly, B. (2025). Examining the Role of Lexical Sophistication, Lexical Diversity, Syntactic Sophistication, Syntactic Complexity, and Cohesion in L2 Speaking Proficiency Assessment. International Journal of Language Testing, 15 (2), 43-70.
Mardani, V., Khoshsaligheh, M. (2025). Incentives of Iranian amateur subtitlers: The sought Bourdieusian capitals. Across Languages and Cultures, 26 (1), 132-154.
Ghabanchi, Z. (2025). Navigating Test Success: An Exploration of Effective Test-Taking Strategy Use and Coping Mechanisms for Test Anxiety of Intermediate Iraqi EFL Learner. Iranian Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 14 (1), 50-67.
Pishghadam, R., Ghabanchi, Z., & Naji Meidani, E. (2025). Exploring the Effects of Chatbot-Assisted Language Learning on Learners’ Language Achievement and Sense of Metavolvement: A Mixed-Methods Study. Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, (), -.
Ghabanchi, Z. (2025). Exploring the Disconnect in EFL Leaners: How Test-Taking Strategies Affect Answer Selection and Test Anxiety Under Moderating Role of Achievement Goal Orientation. International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 13 (53), 199-214.
Peng Cao, Khoshsaligheh, M., & Jomhouri Shokatabad, F. (2025). Deepseek, ChatGPT, and Gemini versus human subtitling: a case study in socio-cultural adaptation in multimedia communication. Perspectives Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, (), -.
Khoshsaligheh, M., Zoraqi Barahoei, A., Jomhouri Shokatabad, F., & Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh (2025). The Devil is in the Details: Where Iranian Translator Trainees Look for Embedded Ideology in Source Discourse. International Journal of Society, Culture and Language, (), -.
Khoshsaligheh, M., Zoraqi Barahoei, A., & Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh (2025). Localization in translation. Translation and Interpreting, 17 (1), 133-137.
Makiabadi, H., Pishghadam, R., & Shayesteh, S. (2025). Development and Validation of Cultuling Competence Test and Examining Its Relationship with Language Aptitude Cultural Intelligence Verbal Intelligence and Second Language Willingness to Communicate. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 17 (1), 53-72.
Altaf Fakih, Abdul-hafeed Fakih, & Khoshsaligheh, M. (2025). Quality Assessment in Interlingual Subtitling: A Systematic Review. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 16 (6), 2004-2015.
Fatollahi, M., & Hashemi, M. (2025). Social Constructivist Approach to Literary Translation Teaching in Iran: A Qualitative Enquiry. Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, 7 (1), 26-50.
Peng Cao, Azadeh Eriss, Jomhouri Shokatabad, F., Mohammad Reza Ghaffari, Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh, & Khoshsaligheh, M. (2025). Neutral and emotive styles of audio description: A reception case study. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12 (1), -.
(2025). زبان و مراقبت: بررسی کیفی ادراکی زبان آموزان ایرانی بر اساس نظریه مراقبت نادینگزو لوگاستروپ. , 16 (3), 47-71.
(2025). The Effect of Language Socialization on Changing EFL Learners#039; Attitudes during the COVID-19 Pandemics: An Ethnographic Study. Teaching English as a Second Language Quarterly, (), -.
(2025). Examining Iranian EFL students’ attitudes and learning environment perceptions regarding reality pedagogy. Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 24 (3), 455-473.
(2025). Fuzzy logic theory: A unifying pathway to intelligent accountability in addressing methodological challenges of applied linguistics. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4 (3), 100278-100300.
Ghandeharion, A. (2025). The Impact of the American War on the American Soldiers: An Examination of Survival Psychology in Scranton’s War Porn and Powers’ The Yellow Birds. Critical Literary Studies, 8 (1), 57-74.
Khoshsaligheh, M., Zoraqi Barahoei, A., Mozhgan Ghassemiazghandi, & Milad Mehdizadkhani (2025). Subtitling Preferences of Film Audiences. A Cross-cultural Survey. Observatorio, 19 (4), -.
Jomhouri Shokatabad, F., Khoshsaligheh, M., & Azadeh Eriss (2025). Unveiling Audio Description Styles’ Diversity in Persian,Descubriendo la diversidad de estilos de audiodescripción en persa. Hikma, 24 (2), 1-35.
(2025). Whispers of Words: The Poetic Weaving of Reader Identity in the Hearts of Iranian EFL Learners. Interdisciplinary Studies in English Language Teaching (ISELT), (), -.
Recent theses and dissertations
Recent research projects
Contact Information
Iran, Mashhad, Azadi Square, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Dr. Ali Shariati Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Department of English Language and Literature
Phone: +985138796829-33
Fax: +985138794144
Postal code: 917794883