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Vol.19,No.1(2026)
Discourse and Interaction
Sepideh Javdani Esfahani
Technical University of Chemnitz
Sepideh Javdani Esfahani is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in English and Digital Linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology. She has been awarded the scholarship Sächsisches Landesstipendium (Saxon State Scholarship) to support her doctoral research on foreign language attrition, employing eye-tracking methodology. Her research interests lie primarily in psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, and corpus linguistics.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3458-6596
Address: Chemnitz University of Technology, 09126 Chemnitz, Germany. [e-mail: sepideh.javdani-esfahani@phil.tu-chemnitz.de]
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