Vahid Shahidipour

Department of English
(2023-present)

 

Vahid Shahidipour (28 August 1988) is an assistant professor of the English Department at Mofid University. He received his BA in ‘English Language and Literature’ from the University of Qom in 2011, MA in ‘Teaching English as a Foreign Language’ from Azad University in 2013, and PhD in ‘Teaching English as a Foreign Language’ from Sheikhbahaee University in 2019.

 

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Books


Dahmardeh, M. ، Safari, M. ، Baqerzadeh Hosseini, S. M. ، Jalili, A. R. ، Shahidipour, V. ، & Imaniragheb, A. (2018). Glocal English 2: Developing effective English reading comprehension. Qom: Al-Mustafa University.

Dahmardeh, M. ، Safari, M. ، Baqerzadeh Hosseini, S. M. ، Jalili, A. R. ، & Shahidipour, V. (2021). Glocal English 3: Developing effective English reading comprehension. Qom: Al-Mustafa University.

Karimi, L. ، Shahidipour, V. ، Mirzaei, K. ، Esmaeili Salumahale, A. ، & Ebrahimi, M. (2013). English methodology in one look. Hamedan: Sepehr Danesh.

Shahidipour, V. (in press). Thesaurus of defense aviation sciences and industries. Tehran: Supreme National Defense University.

Zarei, A. A. ، Hasani, M. T. ، & Shahidipour, V. (2013). Language learning strategies as predictors of L2 idiom learning. Germany: Lambert academic publishing.

Translating the NASA Thesaurus at the Supreme National Defense University

Articles


Shahidipour, V. (2017). A study on the speech act of compliment response in Persian: The effect of age. Iranian Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1 (2)، 72-83.

Shahidipour, V. ، & Alibabaee, A. (2017). Syntactic structures and rhetorical functions of electrical engineering, psychiatry, and linguistics research article titles in English and Persian: A cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study. Journal of Teaching Language Skills, 36 (1)، 145-175.

Shahidipour, V. ، & Tahririan, M. (2017). Evaluation of newly developed EAP textbooks for the students of medicine published by SAMT. Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 4 (4)، 65-83.

Shahidipour, V. ، & Tahririan, M. (2018). Difficulties facing Iranian EFL senior high school learners and strategies they use to understand English idioms. Issues in Language Teaching, 7 (2)، 121-146.

Shahidipour, V. ، & Zarei, G. R. (2016). Investigating age–based compliments in Persian. English Review: Journal of English Education, 4 (2)، 275-288.

Shahidipour, V. ، & Zarei, G. R. (2017). Investigating the use of compliments and compliment responses in Persian: Effect of educational background. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, 6 (1)، 227-239.

Talebinezhad, M. R. ، & Shahidipour, V. (2015). A critical look at CLIL on the basis of KARDS model. International Journal of Language Learning and Applied Linguistics World, 9 (2)، 254-271.

Zarei, A. A. ، & Shahidipour, V. (2013). Language learning strategies as predictors of L2 idioms comprehension. International Journal of Language Learning and Applied Linguistics World, 4 (2)، 313-330.

Zarei, A. A. ، & Shahidipour, V. (2013). Language learning strategies as predictors of L2 idioms production. In S. O'Neill & A. Maleki (Eds.), Advances in TESOL for 21st century practitioners: Leaders, learners and strategies (pp. 145-158). Sydney: ADAM House PRESS.

Translating the Persian articles published in the Journal of the Supreme National Defense University into English

PhD Courses: PhD TOEFL (TOEFL Vocabulary, Grammar and Reading Comprehension), English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
MA Courses: General English, English for Specific Purposes for the Students of Psychology, Advanced Writing, Paragraph Writing

BA Courses: General English, English for Specific Purposes for the Students of Library and Information Science, Basic and Advanced Writing Skills, Paragraph Writing, Letter Writing, English Correspondence, Basic and Advanced Reading Comprehension, Basic and Advanced Grammar, Grammar and Writing, Essay Writing, Basic and Advanced Listening-Speaking Skills, Lecturing and Oral Presentation, Study Skills, Linguistics, Language Teaching Methodology, Teaching Language Skills, Testing, Language Assessment, Research Methodology, Materials Development, Textbooks Evaluation, Interlanguage

Teaching different English language courses to the:

BA students in English Language and Translation and Linguistics at Hazrat Masoumeh University, Qom, Iran, since 2020;

MA and BA students in English Language and Literature and other majors at the University of Qom, Qom, Iran, since 2015;

PhD and MA students in various majors at Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute, Qom, Iran, since 2014;

BA students in English Language and Translation and Teaching English as Foreign Language and PhD students in other majors at Mofid University, Qom, Iran, since 2022;

BA students in English Language and Translation and other majors at Toolo-e-Mehr University, Qom, Iran, since 2014;

young adult EFL learners at the Iran Language Institute (ILI), since 2013; and

EFL learners at all proficiency levels (i.e., beginner, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced) at various high schools, language centers, and institutes in Qom, Iran, since 2008.

Director of the Iran Language Institute (Qom), 2022 - 2024

Head of the Language Department, Mofid University, Qom, Iran, since 2023

Reviewer of English research articles in the Journal of ‘Applications of Language Studies’ published by Hazrat Masoumeh University, Qom, Iran, since 2024

International


Participating at the International Conference on Current Trends in ELT: Putting the Learner in the Spotlight held by the Department of English Language and Literature, Urmia University, May 20-22, 2013

Presenting a paper entitled 'English language learning strategies as predictors of L2 idioms production' at islPAL- Middle East, the 1st International Conference on Improving TESOL - Pedagogies, Learning and Assessment held by the Middle East Language Development Institute, ROCMELIA & APAMALL, Tehran, Iran, September 22-23, 2013

Presenting a paper entitled 'English language learning strategies as predictors of L2 idioms comprehension' at the 3rd International Conference on English Language Teaching, Equatorial Hotel Melaka, Malaysia, November 18-20, 2013

Presenting a paper entitled 'A cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study of syntactic structures of research article titles written in English and Persian in the three different disciplines of electrical engineering, psychiatry, and linguistics' at the Annual National Conference on Recent Research in English Language Teaching, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran, February 9, 2017

Presenting a paper entitled 'Evaluation of newly developed EAP textbooks for the students of medicine published by SAMT' at the Annual National Conference on Recent Research in English Language Teaching, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran, February 9, 2017

Presenting a paper entitled 'Evaluation of CLIL approach with the yardstick of KARDS model' at the 2nd National Conference in Challenges in Foreign Language Teaching in Iran, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran, May 3-4, 2017

Presenting a paper entitled 'A study on the speech act of compliment response in Persian: Effect of age' at the 2nd National Conference in Challenges in Foreign Language Teaching in Iran, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran, May 3-4, 2017

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Honors


Earning the highest GPA scores during all semesters in the MA and PhD programs

Earning the best total GPA in class in the MA program (i.e., 19.05)

Earning a superior total GPA in class in the PhD program (i.e., 18.50)

Earning a superior score in the PhD comprehensive examination in class (i.e., 17.88)

Being considered an elite and brilliant talent by Iran's National Elites Foundation (INEF) in 2020

Being selected as one of the top ten professors at Hazrat Masoumeh University, Qom, Iran, in 2020-21

Winning first place for the best professor in the English Language Department and sixth place in the Faculty of Humanities at Qom University, Qom, Iran, based on the student surveys in the first semester of 2016

Winning first place for the best professor in the English Language Department and the Faculty of Humanities at Mofid University, Qom, Iran, based on the student surveys in the first semester of 2022

Winning third place for the best professor in the English Language Department and the Faculty of Humanities at Mofid University, Qom, Iran, based on the top student surveys in the first semester of 2022

Winning seventh place for the best professor at Mofid University, Qom, Iran, based on the student surveys in the first semester of 2022

Obtaining a certificate of appreciation regarding the improvement of the percentage of profitability of the Iran Language Institute (ILI) - Qom province in 2022

Obtaining a certificate of appreciation for the contributions to the cultural field from Qom University

Workshops


Holding a Teacher Training Course (TTC) at Qom University, Qom, Iran, in 2017

Conducting a workshop on proposal writing at Hazrat Masoumeh University, Qom, Iran, in October 2021

Conducting a workshop entitled 'The MA program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)' at Hazrat Masoumeh University, Qom, Iran, in November 2021

Conducting an advanced English grammar workshop at Mofid University, Qom, Iran, in August 2022

Conducting a workshop entitled 'The MA program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)' at Mofid University, Qom, Iran, in October 2022

Attending a workshop entitled 'The language learners’ frequent issues in online classes', held by the Iran Language Institute in Tehran, Iran, in December 2022

Conducting an advanced English grammar workshop at Mofid University, Qom, Iran, in May 2023

Holding a Teacher Training Course (TTC) at Mofid University, Qom, Iran, in July and August 2023

Holding a Teacher Training Course (TTC) at the Idea Language Institute, Qom, Iran, in July and August 2023

Holding a Teacher Training Course (TTC) at Mofid University, Qom, Iran, in April and May 2024

Giving a lecture entitled 'Learning to teach the English language' at Mofid University, Qom, Iran, on April 22, 2024