Rate My Professor Carmen Taleghani Nikazm

Taleghani-Nikazm's research centers on language use in social and cultural settings, utilizing conversation analysis and interactional linguistics to examine how speakers formulate utterances to perform social actions like requests and invitations in everyday, L1 (German and Persian), L2, and multilingual interactions. Her work explores interactional competence, multimodality, video-mediated interaction, sociolinguistics, and applications to L2 teaching, teacher training, and materials development. Major publications include her monograph Request sequences: The intersection of grammar, interaction and social context (2006, John Benjamins), the co-edited volume Mobilizing others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities (2020, John Benjamins), and highly cited articles such as "How can insights from conversation analysis be directly applied to teaching L2 pragmatics?" (2006, Language Teaching Research, 271 citations), "A conversation analytical study of telephone conversation openings between native and nonnative speakers" (2002, 114 citations), and "Rethinking language teacher training: Steps for making talk-in-interaction research accessible to practitioners" (2019, Classroom Discourse). With over 1,000 citations on Google Scholar, her contributions influence interactional linguistics, second language acquisition, and pedagogy through collaborative projects with scholars in the US, Canada, Germany, and Ireland. She teaches courses on conversation analysis, L2 pragmatics, German sociolinguistics, and the structure of spoken German.