Payman Vafaee 4705 Branchville Ave. College Park, MD: (646)

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1 EDUCATION Payman Vafaee 4705 Branchville Ave. College Park, MD: (646) MD PhD student of Second Language Acquisition, present, New York, NY Doctoral Student of Applied Linguistics, August (33 credits passed, GPA: 3.9) Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Master of Arts in TEFL, May 2006 Khayyam Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran Bachelor of Arts in Translation Studies, May 2003 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Training for teaching languages in the USA higher educational system, 2012 Oxford University Press Training for Test item writing for the American English on-line placement test project, 2011 TESOL Certificate Program, Training for mentorship in the TESOL intensive summer program Community English Program Assessment training for rating speaking and writing sub-sections of the placement test, 2010 Kish Language Institute On-the job training (Tehran Central Office), 2009 Training for holding supervisor position, 2005 Teacher Training Courses, 2004 College of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Teacher Training Courses, 2004 Hafez Language Institute Teacher Training Courses, 2000 International Exhibition of Mashhad Training for working as an interpreter, 2000 Shokooh Language Institute Teacher Training Courses,

2 WORKSHOPS PRESENTED TESOL/AL Roundtable How to Teach TOEFL ibt Courses, 2011 TESOL/AL Roundtable How to Teach IELTS Courses, 2011 PROFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE Developing a proficiency test of Persian language 2012 Oxford University Press, New York 2011 OOPT item writer TESOL Certificate Program, 2011 Program assistant Kish Language Institute, Mashhad, Iran Educational Supervisor Hiring new teachers Training new teachers Observing Classes and Teachers Designing new syllabi and courses Designing new tests Administrating placement tests Dealing with learners and teachers issues Hafez Language Institute, Mashhad, Iran Head of MIC (Multi-integrated Courses) Department Observing Classes and helping teachers with their teaching skills Administrating placement tests Designing tests International Exhibition of Mashhad 2000 Interpreter TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Persian as a foreign language at the undergraduate level Present P.S 154 New York Public School 2011 Zankel Fellow TESOL Certificate Program, 2011 Teaching Mentor 2

3 CEP,, New York 2011 Master Teacher ESL Teacher PI Academy, New York 2011 TOEFL ibt preparatory courses instructor Safir English Academy, Mashhad, Iran Kish Language Institute, Mashhad, Iran IELTS Club, Mashhad, Iran 2009 IELTS writing teacher Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran 2008 Teaching English Reading Comprehension Courses Teaching English Writing Courses Teaching ESP courses University of Applied Science and Technology, Mashhad, Iran Teaching Reading Comprehension Courses Teaching Phonetics and Phonology Courses Teaching English Conversation Courses Teaching ESP Courses University of Industrial Management, Mashhad, Iran Teaching Reading Comprehension Courses Teaching English Conversation Courses Teaching ESP Courses College of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad,Mashhad, Iran Jahane Elm Institute of Higher Education,Mashhad, Iran 2005 TOEFL and IELTS preparatory courses teacher Day System, Mashhad, Iran 2004 University Entrance Exam English Sub-test Preparatory courses teacher Khorasn Newspaper, Mashhad, Iran

4 Zam Zam Factory,Mashhad, Iran 2003 Iran Khodro Factory, Mashhad, Iran 2003 International Exhibition of Mashhad,Mashhad, Iran 2000 Interpreter Hafez Language Institute, Mashhad, Iran Shokooh Language Institute ESL classes (From starter to intermediate levels) Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships Persian Flagship Teaching Assistantship $21000 Persian Flagship Persian Proficiency Test Development Research Grant $ International Student Scholarship (2010), Columbia University $ CEP Fellowship ( ), Columbia University $ 8000 Zankel Fellowship ( ), Columbia University $ Publication Vafaee, P. (2011). Dynamic Assessment: A Dialectical Integration of Assessment and Instruction, Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics,11(1), Vafaee, P. Basheer, N. & Heitner, R. (2012). Application of Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Construct Validity Investigation: The Case of the Grammar Sub-Test of the CEP Placement Exam, Iranian Journal of Language Testing, 2(1), Conference Presentations Investigating Variability in Tasks, Rater Judgment and Analytic Scoring of a Speaking Placement Test, Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Carnegie Mellon University, 2012 Reexamining the Role of Explicit Information in Processing Instruction Addressing a Methodological Gap: A Pilot Study, NYS TESOL 42nd Annual Conference Albany, New York,2012 The Application of Generalizibilty Theory in Investigating Variability in Tasks and Rater Judgments in a Speaking Performance Test, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT), Georgetown University,2012 4

5 Persian Compliment Responses: the case of Off-line and On-line World Data, Applied Lingustcis Winter Conference (ALWC),, 2012 Investigating the Construct Validity of the Grammar Sub-Test of the CEP Placement Exam, East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT), Georgetown University,2011 Assessing and Teaching Interlanguage Pragmatics: the case of Persian and English, The First National Conference on Language, Discourse, and Pragmatics (LDP), Shahid Chamran University, Iran, 2009 Languages Persian/Farsi: Native English: Proficient (TOEFL ibt score: 113/120. Reading: 30/30, Listening: 29/30, Writing: 27/30, Speaking: 27/30) (IELTS score: 8.5/9. Reading : 8/9, Listening: 9/9, Speaking : 9/9, Writing: 8/9) Computer Skills GENOVA, mgenova, EQS, SPSS, MS Office 5