| 1) |
B.A. in the English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Esfahan, Iran, July, 1965 |
| 2) |
M.A. in General Linguistics, University of Tehran, Iran, January, 1967 |
| 3) |
Post Graduate Diploma in Contrastive Linguistics of Farsi and Urdu, University of Karachi, Pakistan, 1969 |
| 4) |
M.A. in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language), University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, U.S.A., August, 1972 |
| 5) |
Ph.D. in General Linguistics, University of Tehran, Iran June, 1975 |
| 6) |
Post-doctoral research certificate in Applied Linguistics, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), U.S.A., August, 1977 |
| 7) |
Post-Doctoral certificate in Translation Studies, Warwick university in Coventry, UK, August 2006 |
