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Department of English

Payam Rahmati

Lecturer

Payam Rahmati is a lecturer in the English Department at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches composition. He earned his PhD in Applied Linguistics from Oklahoma State University. His main research areas include second language writing, teacher education/cognition, and computer-assisted language learning.

Representative publications

Journal Articles

  • Koltovskaia, S., Rahmati, P. & Saeli, H. (2024). Graduate students’ use of ChatGPT for academic text revision: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement. Journal of Second Language Writing, 65, 101130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2024.101130
  • Saeli, H., Rahmati, P., & Koltovskaia, S. (2023). Learner engagement with written corrective feedback: The case of automated writing evaluation. Journal of Response to Writing, 9(2), 1-39.  https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/journalrw/vol9/iss2/1
  • Saeli, H., Rahmati, P. (2023). Developments in learners’ affective engagement with written peer feedback: The affordances of in situ translanguaging. Assessing Writing, 100788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asw.2023.100788
  • Rahmati, P., Dalman, M., & Saeli, H. (2023). Oral corrective feedback on pronunciation errors: Implications for teacher trainers. The Journal of Asia TEFL, 20(1), 197-206. http://dx.doi.org/10.18823/asiatefl.2023.20.1.16.197
  • Saeli, H., Rahmati, P. (2022). Development in a teacher’s cognition about written corrective feedback: A Sociocultural Theory-driven perspective. Language Teaching Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688221142018
  • Saeli, H., Dalman, M., & Rahmati, P. (2020). How do learners engage with oral corrective feedback on lexical stress errors? Effects of learner engagement on the working of corrective feedback. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 43(3), 247–276. https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.19010.sae

Book Chapters

  • Rahmati, P., & Shamsi, Y., Dalman, M. (in press). Teacher cognition about pronunciation instruction: A case study of Persian as a second language teachers. In H. Saeli (Ed.), The handbook of teaching and learning Persian as a foreign/second language. Springer Nature.
  • Saeli, H., Rahmati, P., & Dalman, M. (2024). Oral corrective feedback: Perceptions of Iranian Learners. In A. Korangy (Ed.), The handbook of cultural Linguistics. Springer.
  • Rahmati, P. & Shamsi, Y. (2024). Are We Heading Towards a Future We Cannot Control? In S. Link, F. Junnier, E. K. Hess, & H. B. Brunner (Eds.), Simulations for critical discussions in higher education. Oklahoma State University Library ePress. https://open.library.okstate.edu/criticaldiscussions/chapter/ethical-ai/
  • Shamsi, Y. & Rahmati, P. (2024). Towards an Equitable Global Energy, Simulations for Critical Discussions in Higher Education. In S. Link, F. Junnier, E. K. Hess, & H. B. Brunner (Eds.), Simulations for critical discussions in higher education. Oklahoma State University Library ePress. https://open.library.okstate.edu/criticaldiscussions/chapter/energy-equity/

Awards

The Carol Guagliardo Preston TESLing Award (2023). Department of English, Oklahoma State University

The Gene B. Halleck Annual Award for Outstanding Student Teacher (2022) Department of English, Oklahoma State University

The TESLing Excellence in Leadership Award (2021). Department of English, Oklahoma State University

The TESLing President’s Award. (2020) Department of English, Oklahoma State University