Aazam Feiz

Lecturer

Persian Language and literature

Ph.D, University of Florida

Area:

Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Developing Materials for Teaching Persian

Office:

HSSB 3054

Office Hours:

TR 11:00 am- 12:00 pm and by appointment

Time Period: Winter 2022

Email:

afeiz@religion.ucsb.edu

About:

Aazam Feiz teaches courses in Persian Language and Literature at UCSB. She has a BA in English translation from Allameh University, an MA in Linguistics from Modarres University in Tehran, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Florida, in Gainesville, where her dissertation received the Distinguished Threadgill Award. She also obtained a certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) from the University of Florida. She is an ACTFL OPI Tester of Persian with Limited Certification.

Previously she taught Persian courses in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Her research focuses on Structures of Persian Language, Psycho-linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. Her interest in the field of Psycho-linguistics is in language processing, eye tracking, and subject-verb agreement. Her current project in Second Language Acquisition is developing a textbook for teaching the Persian language.