Pouneh Shahbani-Jadidi: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Teaching Persian as a Second Language

The 78th episode of Parse is an excerpt of a talk given by Pouneh Shahbani-Jadidi titled “A Psycholinguistic Approach to Teaching Persian as a Second Language”.  
 
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is an Instructional Professor of Persian at the University of Chicago. She was awarded a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa in 2012 and another Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Tehran Azad University in 2004. Her research focuses on second language acquisition and pedagogy, as well as psycholinguistics and Persian literary translation. She is the author of Processing Compound Verbs in Persian: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Complex Predicates (2014) and Translation Metacognitive Strategies (2009). She has also published What the Persian Media Says (2014) as well as the three-volume series of Persian language textbooks published by Routledge, entitled, Persian is Sweet. 
To watch the full talk, click here: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhhvrFUDzos&t=703s⁠