for the vast majority of the iranian m.a. students of tefl, thesis writing is the first individual engagement with research. despite having some pedagogical merits, such an academic activity generally poses some intellectual and affective challenges to such students. during thesis completion, if students are not effectively scaffolded by supervisors and not supported by universities, they are l...

The present study aimed at providing a typology of Iranian supervisors’ written feedback on L2 graduate students’ theses/dissertations and examining the way different speech functions are employed to put the supervisors’ thoughts and feelings into words. In so doing, a corpus of comments, including 15,198 comments provided on 87 TEFL theses and dissertations by 30 supervisors were analyzed. We ...

For the vast majority of the Iranian M.A. students of TEFL, thesis writing is the first individual engagement with research. Despite having some pedagogical merits, such an academic activity generally poses some intellectual and affective challenges to such students. During thesis completion, if students are not effectively scaffolded by supervisors and not supported by universities, they are l...

This study examines the effect of selfie video reflection, model lesson and peer-coaching relating to videos on TEFL student-teachers' receptive skills teaching practices. An observation checklist (11) practices was used by participants during reflection. Four groups (6) carried out two practice days each week for three months met with researcher monthly. The first group recorded their lessons ...

This study was an attempt to examine the supervisors’ and graduate students’ needs for written feedback on thesis/dissertation and juxtaposed them to see how each group views feedback. A mixed-method design was employed to collect the data. Questionnaires and interviews were deployed to collect the data from 132 graduate TEFL students and 37 supervisors from 10 Iranian Universities. Results ind...

Systemics Functional Grammar (SFG) has been used to address issues of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) in extensive research, however the aim this article is analyze how instances specific genre, recipe, may present different functional features, well discuss TEFL use genre their work with learners. The paper presents summary relevant theoretical aspects on three Meta Functions SFG...

In any given learning context, there are constraints on the development of learner autonomy. However, this does not mean that developing autonomy is not feasible. In this paper, I firstly describe student passivity in Bachelor of Arts Graduation Paper (BAGP) writing in a four-year BA Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) program in a Chinese teachers’ university. I then present how stud...

TESL 505, Second-language Acquisition, 3 Units This course examines the process of acquiring a language, focusing on second-language acquisition. Questions to be explored include: What is the nature of language proficiency? What regular patterns characterize the process of language acquisition? What strategies do successful language learners employ? How do linguistic, affective, cognitive and s...