The COVID-19 pandemic posed numerous challenges for instructors and students. Professors, example, struggled to quickly effectively migrate face-to-face courses remote teaching modalities. What had not been anticipated, however, were the additional be managed when returning in-person teaching. This reflective essay provides some insight into how faculty at University of Puerto Rico attempted mo...

A cohort of American students came to Prague for their Study Abroad in spring 2020. They singed up a Czech language course but had leave the country middle term and continue learning from homes. At end term, they were asked write short reflective essay on how motivation learn transformed throughout what motivational factors regarded as key themselves. This text explores have say about own exper...

This reflective essay follows a faculty working group as they attempt to understand barriers access course materials through the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Through workgroup’s research collaboration with students in problem-based course, workgroup uncovered elements hidden curriculum assumptions regarding material procurement. The has served foundation for efforts begin transf...

L2 language socialization asks how learners come to gain the ability to write appropriately and sufficiently in an institutional academic community of practice. In the same line, this study focuses on the process of socialization of an Iranian English L2 essay writing class in the context of higher education. The theoretical backgrounds rely on the socialization and Vygotsky's sociocult...

In this paper we are concerned with the location of topics in text processing and the determination of the update unit in looking up topic continuations and topic shifts. Using key elements of the Centering Model of local discourse coherence and empirical evidence from Modern Greek and Japanese we argue that the appropriate update unit for topic tracking is the sentence in its traditional sense...

The e-rater system 1 is an operational automated essay scoring system, developed at Educational Testing Service (ETS). The average agreement between human readers, and between independent human readers and e-rater is approximately 92%. There is much interest in the larger writing community in examining the system’s performance on nonnative speaker essays. This paper focuses on results of a stud...

Recently, there is a need for fostering the critical reflective side of L2 teacher education. This study investigated the implications of personal narrative (PN) and reflective journal (RJ) writing for Iranian EFL teachers’ reflective writing. Sixty (36 women and 24 men) in-service secondary school EFL teachers were selected based on the convenience sampling from Iran. L2 teachers equally divid...