The 69th episode of Parse is an excerpt of a talk given by Masoud Jasbi on Persian language pedagogy, focusing on definiteness and pluralization in Persian and presenting several “leaky generalizations” that may have affected Persian language pedagogy. Jasbi suggests that a closer dialogue between theoretical linguistics and language pedagogy would reduce errors introduced by leaky generalizations and likely improve language learning in the classroom. 
 
Masoud Jasbi is an Assistant Professor of linguistics at UC Davis. His main areas of research include language acquisition, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, computational and experimental methods in linguistics. 

To watch the full talk, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIyZpVfbi_U&t=597s