I received a BA in English Literature and an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Shiraz University, Iran. I am currently a PhD candidate in Second Language Education.

Babaee, N. (2012a). Motivation in ESL: A literature review. Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 4(1), 1-7. Babaee, N. (2011a). A textual analysis of Facebook comments among Iranian female and male users. the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, 4 (24), 183-193. Riazi, A.M. & Babaee, N. (2008). Iranian EFL Female Students' Lexical Inferencing And Its Relationship To Their L2 Proficiency And Reading Skill. the Reading Matrix, 8 (1).

My areas of research interest include socio-cultural perspectives on second/heritage language learning, heritage language maintenance and loss, critical theory and identity.