About this ebook
By placing Iran at the centre of analysis, this book offers a context-sensitive account of AI in language education with relevance far beyond a single national setting. It is valuable to researchers, teacher educators, postgraduate students, policymakers, and ELT professionals across applied linguistics, TESOL, CALL, educational technology, and AI ethics.
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About the author
Dara Tafazoli (PhD, University of Córdoba, Spain) is a researcher and educator specialising in the integration of emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI), immersive environments, and digital innovations, into language teaching and higher education. He currently serves as Research Lead in AI in Education at the School of Education, La Trobe University, Australia. His research and teaching interests include computer-assisted language learning (CALL), teacher education, and cultural issues in language education, and his work is driven by a deep commitment to equity, access, and inclusion, ensuring that technology-enhanced education benefits learners from under-represented and resource-constrained contexts.
His recent co-edited volumes are Computer-assisted language learning in the Global South (Routledge, 2024) and Handbook of CALL teacher education and professional development (Springer, 2023). Dara serves as the Book Series Editor of Digital Teacher Education Futures and the Editor-in-Chief of The Palgrave encyclopedia of computer-assisted language learning.
His scholarship consistently focuses not only on what technology can do, but how it can serve social good, learner empowerment, and educator agency. He is committed to collaborative, impact-driven research that leads to practical models and frameworks for educators, learners, and policy-makers alike.
