Jon Jilani

Jon Jilani has been a professional linguist and writer for over a decade and has been published in a number of venues, including, most recently, a piece for Blogging4Jobs.com. He is also the author of the first widely available Tajik-English/English-Tajik dictionary, which was published in 2008. In his current role at Language Testing International, he is a content development specialist, with responsibilities including the authoring of scholarly publications and creating and rating language certification tests in English, Persian-Farsi, Dari, Pashto and Tajik.

Articles by Jon Jilani

• Multilingual healthcare providers for a multilingual nation

  Monday, March 17, 2014

  ​Over the past several decades, the United States has become an increasingly multilingual society. This is a marked transformation from the previous "melting pot" ideal, where immigrants and even Native Americans were encouraged to shed their native languages and adopt English.

• Hire more effectively through language testing

  Wednesday, March 12, 2014

  Whether job candidates intentionally exaggerate their language skills or they simply define "fluency" differently than the hiring manager would, it is hard to compare and contrast their abilities without any kind of standard measure.