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About Samaneh Eslamdoost
General Education
Dr. Samaneh Eslamdoost joined USV as Adjunct Professor of English, bringing over 15 years of experience teaching academic writing, communication, and language skills to adult learners in both Iran and the United States. Before joining USV, she served as an ESL instructor at the California College of Communications in San Jose, where she redesigned course sequences, integrated EdTech tools, and used AI to personalize content for diverse learner profiles. She also brings university-level teaching experience from Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran, where she taught professional courses in Advanced Writing, Testing and Assessment, and Listening and Speaking to undergraduate and graduate students. Her work spans university instruction, postdoctoral teacher training program design, and published research on language education, making her equally at home in the classroom and in the scholarship that informs it.
At USV, Dr. Eslamdoost brings a learner-centered approach to English instruction grounded in sociocultural learning theory and communicative language teaching. Her courses are structured to help students build the writing, reading, and communication skills they need to thrive in technical and creative fields, with attention to how language works across different genres, audiences, and professional contexts. She is also the author of AI-Enhanced ELT: Innovative Strategies to Transform Your Classroom (TESOL Press, 2026), and actively integrates AI literacy into her teaching practice, preparing students to use emerging tools with both fluency and critical awareness.
Dr. Eslamdoost holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba'i University and is completing an M.A. in Instructional Design and Technology at San Francisco State University. Her research on teacher identity, language policy, and AI in education has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences. She is multilingual in English, Persian, and Azerbaijani.
Formal Education
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics (Focus: English Language Teaching)
Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
M.A., Applied Linguistics (Focus: English Language Teaching)
Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
M.A., Instructional Design and Technology (in progress)
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
B.A., English Language and Literature
Urmia University, Urmia, Iran