Education
He completed his primary and secondary education in the same city.
He completed his primary and secondary education in the same city.
He has worked at universities including University of Teachers Education, Tehran in Iran, University of California, Los Angeles, Texas A &M, University of Southern California, and University of Shenandoah in the United States.A, American University of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, and Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey. During his professional career, he has trained many applied linguistics and university lecturers. Farhady was born in the city of Chaldoran, West Azerbaijan Province in Iran in 1947.
In 1967 Farhady was admitted to Tehran University Iran where he completed Bachelor of Arts program in English language and literature.
After teaching English as a foreign languages at high schools in Iran for 6 years, he was granted a scholarship to continue his studies at University of California, Los Angeles where he completed Masters and Doctor of Philosophy programs in four years 1976 to 1980. Farhady has presented at conferences at various levels of technicality including Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), American Association of Applied Linguistics (American Academy of Arts and Letters), European Association of Language Testing Association (EALTA), TESOL Convention, Asia Teaching English as a foreign language, Second Language Acquisition Forum, Southern California Association of Language Assessment Research (SCALAR), East Coast Language Testing (ECOLT), and Japan Association of Language Testing (JALT).
These diverse activities have given him opportunities to write at different levels of technicality on different areas of applied linguistics including language testing, classroom assessment, English for Specific Purposes (Education Support Professionals), reading, translation and a number of others The bulk of his work has concentrated on research in language testing and assessment.