Saber Gigasari, N. (Niloufar)

Niloufar Saber Gigasari (1989) is Researcher Variation Linguistics at the Meertens Institute. She received her M.A from Amsterdam University (UVA) in 2019 for a dissertation on an investigation of initiation, response, feedback (IRF) sequence and students’ further participation opportunities in classroom.

In her first M.A, received from Guilan University in (2015), she focused on the relationship between teachers’ social comparison tendencies, self-efficacy and burnout in ELT profession.

Her research interests are the relations between language and culture, language variations, diversity and inclusion in multicultural and bilingual settings, and psychological well-being of employees in multicultural organizations. At the Meertens Institute she has been diligently engaged in a research endeavor centered on the investigation of cultural behaviors and their reciprocal influence on language dynamics, as well as the consequential ramifications of language on intercultural interactions. In addition to her work at the Meertens Institute, she is a language and culture instructor.

Key publications

• Gigasari, N.S., (2023, February). Taarof from Inside and Outside. Manuscript submitted for publication to the peer-reviewed Journal o Language and Culture.
• Gigasari, N. S., & Hassaskhah, J. (2017). The effect of social comparison tendencies on EFL teachers’ experience of burnout and instructional self-efficacy. Cogent Psychology, 4(1), 1327130.
• Hassaskhah, J., Tous, M. D., & Saber, N. PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT FROM SOCIAL COMPARISON THEORY: A CASE OF IRANIAN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS.