Zohreh Gooniband Shoushtari is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz. The courses she has taught include: language teaching methods, language skills, oral translation, psycholinguistics, English for special purposes, second language acquisition, language teaching in Iran and in the world, and issues in language teaching. She has written several articles in the field of second language acquisition in domestic and international journals.