Amirreza Vakilifard

Amirreza Vakilifard was born in 1968 in Tehran, Iran . He obtained his Ph.D. in Education Sciences (Second Languages Didactics) from the University of Montreal in Canada in 2007. [1] He is the founding member of the first-ever Persian Language teaching department aimed at foreign learners in Iran. He has been teaching Persian language to foreign students since 1995 at the Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU) in Qazvin, Iran.

Amirreza Vakilifard
Born
Amirreza Vakilifard

(1968-05-26) May 26, 1968
Tehran, Iran

He established the M.A. program in Persian Language Didactics at the IKIU since 2014 and has been teaching the above program at other Iranian universities, including Allameh Tabatabyi, Beheshti, Payam-e Noor since 2010. Dr. Vakilifard was the Deputy-Director of the Persian Language Center at IKIU from 1995 to 2002 and again from 2011 to 2013, and he has been appointed as the Director of the Persian Language Center of the IKIU since 2013. In 2011, he established the "Journal of Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages",[2] Iran's first academic periodical in the field, in which he serves as Director-in-Charge and Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Vakilifard is a frequent speaker at conferences and conducts regular workshops for Persian language teachers in Iran and abroad.

In 2017, Dr. Vakilifard designed and founded SAMFA (Persian acronym for standard assessment test of Persian language skills) that is the most widely-used test of proficiency in Persian language. He provided the scientific framework and supporting documents for the test. The test has been repeatedly administered in Iran and simultaneously, in five other countries.[3]

Published works

He has produced over 50 books and articles in Persian, French and English. Many of his books and articles are in the field of learning and teaching Persian as a second language. Among his well-known books are:

  • Persian Framework of Reference for teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages: Grammar, Vocabulary and Functions for Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Levels (2016, with M. Mirdehghan, Z. Montazeri and F. Bagheri);
  • Beat of life, Improving semi-specialized vocabulary and comprehension of Persian language for medical purposes- Upper-intermediated Level (2016, with collaboration of Z. Sedighifar and M. Galledari);
  • Pulse of life, Improving semi-specialized vocabulary and comprehension of Persian language for medical purposes- intermediated Level (2016, with collaboration of Z. Sedighifar and M. Galledari),
  • Reading Comprehension of Persian texts for international advanced learners (2002, with R. Madani);
  • Persian Language for International Medical Students (2002, with M. Galledari);
  • Persian language for international engineering students (2002, with M. Galledari)…

He has translated several books into Persian too, including Testing for Language Teachers (Arthur Hughes), Conversation Inspirations (Nancy Ellen Zelman). In 2002, he received the award for the Excellent Researcher of the academic year 2002-2003 among the professors of the IKIU, Iran In 2012, he was chosen Distinguished Professor of the academic year 2011-2012 among the professors of the IKIU, Iran. In 2016, he once again received the award for the Excellent Researcher of the academic year 2014-2015 among the professors of IKIU, Iran. In 2017, Dr. Vakilifard was once again chosen Distinguished Professor of the academic year 2015-2016 among the professors of the IKIU, Iran.

References
  1. ""Amirreza Vakilifard",". 2007.
  2. "Journal of Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages". 2011.
  3. "گزارش و بیانیه سومین نشست رؤسای مراکز بین الملی آموزش زبان فارسی به غیر فارسی زبانان دانشگاه های کشور". معاونت گسترش زبان فارسی و ایران شناسی در خارج از کشور (in Persian). Retrieved 2020-10-12.
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