Hossein Farhady,Associate Prof. of Applied Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Hossein Farhady Research Interest:

Research on language proficiency testing and classroom assessment, EAP materials development

Prof. Dr. Hossein Farhady is an Iranian applied linguist with more than forty years of studying, teaching and researching in and out of Iran. He received his MA in TESL and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA in 1978 and 1980, respectively. His major area of interest is research on various aspects of language assessment.

Farhady has taught courses on language testing, research methods, and ESP at the MA and Ph.D. levels in Iran, Canada, Armenia, and the USA. Farhady has also presented papers in national and international conferences. He publishes more than 10 books and 50 articles on various topics in applied linguistics and in language assessment. Dr. Farhady has directed MA programs in TEFL, two nationwide research projects on EFL/EAP education in Iran, and supervised over 60 MA and Ph.D. theses.

In 2006 he worked as a senior scholar and project manager for organizations such as Ordinate and Lidget Green Corporations in California, Avant Assessment, and Second Language Testing. After that, he worked as the associate dean of the Department of English Programs at the American University of Armenia. He has also directed projects related to the scoring of Pearson’s new automated language proficiency test and validating the Versant test.

Presently, he is a faculty member at the ELT department at Yeditepe University in Istanbul and an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California.

Farhady has presented at conferences at various levels of technicality including

Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC)

American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

European Association of Language Testing Association (EALTA)

TESOL Convention

Asia TEFL

Second Language Acquisition Forum

Southern California Association of Language Assessment Research (SCALAR)

 East Coast Language Testing (ECOLT)

 Japan Association of Language Testing (JALT)

These diverse activities have given him opportunities to write at different levels of technicality on different areas of applied linguistics including language testing, classroom assessment, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), reading, translation and a number of others. The bulk of his work has concentrated on research in language testing and assessment.