Literacy Studies in English language education ( Multiliteracies, Critical Literacy and critical sociolinguistics; …), Critical Pedagogy, Language Policy, World Englishes, English language and Literacy Assessment and Materials Development, Critical Discourse Analysis, Research Methodology (Qualitative Orientation)

1. Khadijeh Aghaei, Mojtaba Rajabi, Aref Danyali (2020), Critical Discourse Analysis on English Language Textbooks for Learners with Special Needs: Laclau & Muffe Approach, Language Related Research Journal, 11(1), 329-358.

2. Aref Danyali, Khadijeh Aghaei (2020), Deesentialism, Reducing Religion into Neo-Emerging Theosophies (Erfans) (A Critical Discourse Analysis on Pargar’s BBC Persian T.V Programmes, Culture-communication Studies , 21( 49), 67-92.

3. Khadijeh Aghaei, Mojtaba Rajabi, Kow Yew Lie, Fereshte Ajam (2019), Flipped Learning as Situated Practice: A Contrastive Narrative Inquiry in an EFL Classroom. Education and information Technologies, 2(25).

4. Khadijeh Aghaei, Mojtaba Rajabi (2019), Exploring the Cohesive Devices in Written and Spoken Texts of “Let’s Learn Persian” based on Halliday and Hassan’s (1976) Model. Journal of Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages,  8(1), 157-182.

5. Khadijeh Aghaei, Ebrahim Mirzaei  Rad (2018), On the Interconnection between Bloom's Critical Thinking Taxonomy & Listening Comprehension Performance of Iranian EFL Learners‏, International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, 6( 3). 22-31.

6. Khadijeh Aghaei, Fariba Khederzadeh Gouglani (2016), Multimodal Pedagogy and L2 Vocabulary Retention, International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, 4(3). 142-153.

7.Khadijeh Aghaei (2016). A Slice of a Baking Cake: Language and Literacy Education Issues in Schooling Systems. Global Journal of Educational Studies. 2(2). Google Scholar, PKP Open Archives Harvester.

8. Khadijeh Aghaei, Koo Yew Lie, Noorizah Mohd Noor (2015). Manifestation of Cultural Identities in an Iranian English Language Literacy Classroom: A Critical Discourse Analysis.  Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. Vol 2, 149-156.

9. Khadijeh Aghaei, Mojtaba Rajabi (2014). Criticality in English Language Literacy Teaching in an Iranian English Language Institute, Journal of Studies in Education, Vol. 4. ( ProQuest indexed, EBSCOhost), USA.

10. Mojtaba Rajabi, Khadijeh Aghaei (2013). Revisiting Challenges of Traditional & Transformational Grammar in ELT: A Sign-Based Approach. Procedia Social and Behavioural Sciences). 

11. Khadijeh Aghaei, Koo Yew Lie, Noorizah Mohd Noor, Mojtaba Rajabi. (2013) From Theory to Practice: Theater Reading (TR) as a Critical and Transformative Literacy Practice in an Educational Development Course. Procedia Social and Behavioural Sciences.

12. Khadijeh Aghaei, Koo Yew lie, Noorizah Mohd Noor. (2012). Sustainable Language and Literacy Learning: A Critical Trace in English Language Education. English Language Teaching Journal, 5(6). (Scopus Indexed).

13. Mohammad Abdollahi-Guilani, Sepideh Mirzaeifard, Khadijch Aghaei, Shadi Khojastehrad. (2012). Clashes of Conciseness and Wordiness between English and Persian Verbs.  Asian Social Science Journal, 8(9).(Scopus Indexed)

14. Mohammad Abdollahi-Guilani, Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Tan Kim Hua & Khadijeh Aghaei (2012). An Investigation into Verb Direction in English and Persian. Asian Social Science Journal, 8(7). (Scopus Indexed).  

15. Mohammad Abdollahi-Guilani, Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, Tan Kim Hua & Khadijeh Aghaei (2012). Culture-Integrated Teaching for the Enhancement of EFL Learner Tolerance. Asian Social Science Journal, Vol. 8, No.6. (Scopus Indexed)