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Hossein Nassaji received his PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT). After completing his degree, he joined the faculty of the English as a Second Language (ESL) Department at Centennial College, Toronto. He is now Associate Professor and Co-ordinator of the MA in Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria, BC.

His teaching and research interests include second language acquisition, communicative focus on form in second language classrooms, L2 reading processes and lexical inferencing, classroom discourse, and the application of the socio-cultural approaches to second language research and pedagogy.

In 2001, he was awarded the twenty-first annual Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize of Modern Language Association of America for the article he co-authored with Gordon Wells of the University of California, Santa Cruz, What's the Use of Triadic Dialogue?: An Investigation of Teacher-Student Interaction.


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