Azita Hojatollah Taleghani

Undergraduate Cross-Appointment: Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations

Azita H. Taleghani is Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in Persian language, literature, and linguistics at the University of Toronto. Her research has primarily focused on second-language learners and heritage speaker’s pedagogy, linguistic approaches in modern Persian literature, especially stylistic aspects in the poems of Persian women poets, Persian syntax, and morphology, as well as web-based and online language teaching.

Education

• PhD, Linguistics, University of Arizona
• MA, Linguistics, University of Arizona 
• MA, General Linguistics, Tehran University
• BA, English Language and Translation, Tehran University

Areas of Teaching and Research Interests

• Second language pedagogy  
• Heritage speakers' pedagogy 
• Linguistic approaches in modern Persian literature 
• Syntax & morphology of Iranian languages
• Web-based and online language teaching

Selected Publications

Book

• Taleghani, A. H. (2008). Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian. John Benjamins.

Articles & Book Chapters

• Taleghani, A. H. (2020). Archaism: Poetic Technique vs. Linguistic Process. Iran Namag, 5(3), 127–142.
• Taleghani, A. H. (2020). Negative Forms of Persian Progressive Tenses: Evidence from monolingual, second language learners and heritage speakers of Persian. In Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (Ed.), Handbook of Persian Second Language Acquisition (pp. 100–121). Routledge. 
• Taleghani, A. H. (2016). Foregrounding and Its Role in Modern Persian Poetry. Iran Nameh, Academic Journal of Iranian Studies, Special Issue dedicated to Homa Katouzian, 30(4), 36–65.
• Taleghani, A. H. (2010). Persian Progressive Tense: Serial Verb Construction or Aspectual Complex Predicate? Iranian Studies Journal, 43(5), 590–607.
• Taleghani, A. H. (2008). Mood and Modality in Persian. In the monograph of Iranian Aspects of Linguistic (pp. 391–416). Cambridge Scholars Press.