As a teacher of Italian and a teacher educator, I have the privilege to work with students from many different cultural and linguistic

Dr. Fatemeh Khonamri University of Mazandaran I used to believe that the best way to teach a reading course in an Iranian context was to...

Recently, I had a blast from the past when my former Iranian English teacher, Mitti, kindly sent me a few of my English writings from about 17 years ago. It was both eye-opening and quite hilarious reading a very young me trying to express myself in English. First of all, let me tell you about Mitti. She had this magical quality where she encouraged us to speak English in class but never gave us the side-eye if we threw in a Persian word here and there. Looking at the youthfu