Ali Kushki

• Ed.D. — Curriculum and Instruction, Loyola University Chicago (2022)
• M.A. — Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Shiraz University (2012)
• B.A. — English Language and Literature, Lorestan University (2009)

• 2020 Nominee, Christopher Brumfit Essay Prize, Language Teaching journal, Cambridge University Press
• 2019 Presenter, Language Learning Roundtable Grant (2019). Annual conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics. Atlanta, Georgia, March 9-12.

• American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)

• Kushki, A., Rahimi, M., & Davin, K. J. (2022). Dynamic assessment of written commentary: Mediating task response. Assessing Writing, 52, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asw.2022.100606
• Davin, K. J., & Kushki, A. (2022). A sociocultural perspective: Seeking evidence of development in a PACE approach to grammar instruction. Language Learning, 72(Sup 2), 165-202. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12473
• Kushki, A., Nassaji, H., & Rahimi, M. (2022). Interventionist and interactionist dynamic assessment of argumentative writing in an EFL program. System, 107, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2022.102800
• Bohanon, H., Wu, M. J., Kushki, A., Vera, E., Carlson, J., LeVesseur, C., Goodman, S., Harms, A., & Shriberg, D. (2021). The role of school improvement planning in the implementation of MTSS in secondary schools. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, 65(3), 230-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/1045988X.2021.1908215
• Nassaji, H., Kushki, A., & Rahimi, M. (2020). The differential diagnostic of interventionist and interactionist Dynamic Assessment for L2 argumentative writing. Language and Sociocultural Theory, 7(2), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1558/lst.37685
• Smetana, L. K. T., & Kushki, A. (2020). Exploring career change transitions through a dialogic conceptualization of science teacher identity. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 32(2), 167-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/1046560X.2020.1802683
• Rahimi, M., Kushki, A., & Nassaji, H. (2015). Diagnostic and developmental potentials of dynamic assessment for L2 writing. Language and Sociocultural Theory, 2(2), 185-208. https://doi.org/10.1558/lst.v2i2.25956
• Davin, K. J., & Kushki, A. (2019). Framing our approach to teacher education: Sociocultural theory and the field-based apprenticeship model. In A. J. Heineke & A. M. Ryan (Eds.), Teaching, learning, and leading with schools and communities: Field-based teacher education for the next generation (pp. 13-24). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315099712

Conference Presentations

• Kushki, A., Juffs, A., & Wozniak, J. P. (accepted, AAAL 2023). Changing conceptual representation across cultures: The case of L2 Persian speakers in the U.S. [Conference session]. The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2023, Portland, Oregon, United States.
• Kushki, A., & Mullahey, K. (2021, Mar. 21). An activity theory perspective on written commentary practices of English language arts instructors [Conference session]. The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Virtual Conference.
• Smetana, L. K. T., & Kushki, A. (2021, Feb. 7). Professional tensions of beginning STEM teachers. Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Virtual Conference, United States.
• Kushki, A., & Heineke, A. J. (2020, Jun. 19). Reformulating the role of affective factors in L2 writing research: A sociocultural explanation of engagement with corrective feedback [Conference session]. Symposium on Second Language Writing, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Mullahey, K., & Kushki, A. (2020, Jun. 19). An activity theory perspective on written feedback practices: The case of teachers vs. stakeholders [Conference session]. Symposium on Second Language Writing, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Smetana, L. K. T., & Kushki, A. (2020, Apr. 18). Exploring science teacher career changer identity from a dialogic approach [Roundtable session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA, United States.
• Smetana, L. K. T., & Kushki, A. (2020, Mar. 16). Dialogic investigation of science teacher identity development: The case of 3 career changers [Conference session]. NARST Annual International Conference, Portland, OR, United States.
• Kushki, A., Nassaji, H., & Rahimi, M. (2019, Mar. 12). The effects of interactionist versus interventionist dynamic assessment on developing L2 academic writing skills [Conference session]. American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Atlanta, GA, United States.
• Kushki, A., & Rahimi, M. (2019, Nov. 14). Exploring written corrective feedback through the perezhivanie prism: A Vygotskyan perspective [Roundtable session]. Symposium on Second Language Writing Conference, Arizona State University, AR, United States.
• Rahimi, M., Saadat, M., & Kushki, A. (2019, Nov. 14). Concept-based instruction as an alternative approach to genre pedagogy: The case of writing thesis proposals in applied linguistics. Symposium on Second Language Writing Conference, Arizona State University, AR, United States.