ALI EBRAHIMPOURLIGHVANI
Highly motivated and multifaceted M.A student with experience in being
- A Teaching Assistant at Iowa State University in Critical Thinking & Communication
- Supervisor and Course Planner of over 150 EFL students during the last two years
FIELDS OF INTEREST
- TESL
- Corpus Linguistics
- Language Assessment
- NLP
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
EDUCATION
August 2023 - Now
M.A. in TESL/Applied Linguistics, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
- Graduate Teaching Assistant in ENG 150 Fall Semester 2023
September 2015 – August 2019
B.A. in English Translation Studies, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
- Total Cumulative GPA: 3.94/4.00
- Ranked 2nd among 75 students in Undergraduate level (First Class Honors - B.A.)
- Thesis: " Foreign Language Teaching and Testing Method" Advisor: Dr. Saeideh Ahangari, Assistant Professor | Score: 4 /4 | Fall 2018
SELECTED COURSES AND GRADES
- Study Skills
- Reading and comprehension I,II,III
- Second Language French I,II
- Generalities of Linguistics I,II
- Essay Writing
- Principles and Methods of Research I,II
- Foreign language Teaching Method
- Score: 4 /4
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EXPERIENCE
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant
-Instructing Composition courses for undergraduate students.
-Designed course schedule.
Research Member
Supervisor and Dean of the Faculty: Dr. Bahloul Salmani Associated in group research about faculty’s fresh students function and wrote an introductory guidence booklet to fulfill their needs through the courses.
Teaching Assistant
Instructure: Dr. Saeideh Ahangari
-Helped analyze the students paperworks.
-Designed course schedule.
-Delivered lectures about Methods of Testing.
Teaching Assistant
Instructure: Dr. Masoud Shaghaghi
-Prepared audio files for students to use in lab sessions.
-Assisted professor in Discourse analysis questions during the laboratory.
-Supervised the prominent group in Lexicology and Contrastive Analysis of Sentence Structures.
Teaching Assistant
Instructure: Dr. Masoud Shaghaghi
-Delivered lectures and tutorials.
-Represented introduction of research paper writing and operated several workshops about essay writing and organizing research paper at Azad University Educators’ Association.
-Assisted with student written activities.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Lecturer and Administrator of Online Workshops about Writing Skill and Speaking Skill
-Holding several online workshops during the pandemic and creating new teaching methods based on students talents and capabilities to cover online classes gap
-Creating different online meeting sessions in order to keep in touch with students to motivate them for their academical purposes
-Analyzing the needs of modern teaching method led to an experimental research about them and these online workshops provide the chance to pursue these needs and create active and useful teaching method
Certified EFL Teacher & Instructor From Iran’s Ministery Of Education
Presenting and Teaching Language Learning Based Courses for high school students in four different language skills
Setting testing system and Designing language testing method
EFL Language Teacher, Supervisor and Course Planner
-Taught Language skills for upper-intermediate and advance level students
-Designed the distinct Testing method for each level
-Held Free Discussion courses for Advance Learners
SKILLS
PERSONAL SKILLS
- Actor
- Singer
- Drama Writer
- Professional basketball player
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Adobe Photoshop
- EndNote
- Professional basketball player
- Demo Builder
- WORDPRESS
- Adobe After Effect
- SPSS
- MATLAB
PERSONAL SKILLS
TECHNICAL SKILLS
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
HONORS AND AWARDS
HONORS AND AWARDS
August 2020
Exempted from the entrance examination and tuition to pursue graduate studies (M.A. program) at Islamic Azad University of Tehran (in recognition of excellent academic performance).
September 2016 – April 2019
Ranked among the top 5 Undergraduate students of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies Department.
September 2017- April 2019
Awarded merit-based scholarship as Leader of Azad University Educators’ Association.
September 2018
Ranked among top 3 Research Assistants of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, Foreign language, Literature and Translation Studies.
EXTRA HONORS AND AWARDS
May 2019
Participated As Actor at “The 4th FRANCOPHONE THEATRE STUDENT FESTIVAL IN IRAN” with the support of The Cultural Cooperation and Action Department of the Embassy of France in Iran, at The House Of Research in Humanities-Ferdowsi, For Playing In The Play: Cafe Balkan By Hooman Djalali which were chosen as Top 3 plays in the festival.
February 2016
Ranked the 1st Team in Basketball Matches held among 8 teams including all Islamic Azad University Branches.
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING COURSES
September 2022
-Discussed the history of the digital storytelling and its goal
-Represented the methods of writing scripts
-Provided the references of presented stories by students
October 2018
September 2022
-Discussed about useful tasks in language learning
September 2022
-Discussed Teaching and Testing Methods
September 2022
-Analyzing the Impacts of Online courses on students during Pandemic of COVID-19
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Instructor & Educational Planner
of International Language Proficiency Test Candidates, Self-Employed.
-Consulting EFL learners and designing study plan
-Instructing Language skills and sub-skills
-Analyzing students results to identify their errors
September 2019- Present
Leader
Foreign Language Educators’ Association, Islamic Azad University.
-Operated conferences, seminars, festivals, scientific lectures, etc.
September 2017- April 2019
Administrator of educational tours and Talkshows
by the cooperation of Azad University Educators’ Association
-Provided visiting tours to historical places for Fresh students of the language Department
-Held Talkshow programs to challenge the students Speaking skill
September 2018- April 2019
Translator, Interpreter and Tour guide
with the cooperation of National Tourism Organization as summer camp tours.
-Operate visiting tours to historical places which is provided for Foreign Visitors
September 2021- Present
REFERENCES
Dr. Bahloul Salmani
Dean of Translation Studies Department
Department of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Foreign language, Literature and Translation Studies, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Dr. Davud Kuhi
Assistant Professor in Linguistics
Department of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Foreign language, Literature and Translation Studies, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Dr. Nazila Raveshi
Assistant Professor in Translation Studies
Department of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Foreign language, Literature and Translation Studies, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran