Simin Sasani

Simin Sasani is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton within the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. She holds a PhD in English Language Teaching from the School of Education, University of Sheffield, alongside an MA in TESOL and a BA in English language and literature.

• Education:
  • PhD in English Language Teaching (University of Sheffield)
  • MA in TESOL
  • BA in English Language and Literature
• Academic Career:
  • Senior Lecturer at International College Portsmouth (research methods, academic skills, EAP)
  • Postgraduate Language Education teaching and dissertation supervision at University of Sheffield
  • Current role as Senior Lecturer at University of Southampton

Her research explores Intercultural Communicative Competence in ELT, sociolinguistics of English as a global language, and intercultural pragmatics in global Englishes. She supervises PhD candidates in Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics/ELT, including Nehad Ahmed N Asiri, Nada Alnaim, and Yidi Yang.

Recent publications analyze the communicative values of online remote learning in higher education contexts. She is affiliated with the Centre for Global Englishes and the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research.