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Direct linkAsaie, Mojtaba; Farsani, Mohammad Amini – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
Research Methodology (RM) is the backbone of any TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) MA programme. Although a burgeoning body of research has investigated students' attitude towards research and RM course in various disciplines, students' attitudes towards research and research methods courses in TEFL research has remained a relatively…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes, Graduate Students
Hajizadeh, Anna; Mohammadi, Saeedeh; Khodadust, Mohammad Reza – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
Research is an indispensable part of any educational endeavour generally and graduate/postgraduate studies particularly, since the Iranian educational system requires M.A. and Ph.D. candidates to submit a thesis or dissertation as partial fulfilment of the requirements for attaining their respective academic degrees. However, a review of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Research
Reza Ahmadi; Hiwa Weisi – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The increasing demands on faculty members and students to conduct research might result in domination in supervisor-student relations across cultural contexts. This study aimed to explore how students' research relationships with their supervisors are manifested within TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) postgraduate curriculum in Iran's…
Descriptors: Student Research, Student Experience, Foreign Countries, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Bakhshi, Hossein; Weisi, Hiwa; Yousofi, Nouroddin – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This paper explores the challenges of conducting qualitative research from ELT (English Language Teaching) Ph.D. candidates' perspectives. Design/methodology/approach: The participants of the study consisted of 30 Iranian Ph.D. students majoring in ELT. The semi-structured interview was employed to investigate the heart of experiences,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Download full textRazeghi, Nader – Asian Journal of University Education, 2019
Postgraduate student's academic activities have an important role in the production and development of scientific knowledge. The present study was mainly aimed at identifying factors which might affect postgraduate students' scientific and research activities at Mazandaran University. The survey method was used and the data were collected through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Research, Influences
Rahimi, Masoud; Yousofi, Nouroddin; Moradkhani, Shahab – Research Papers in Education, 2021
As part of a large-scale project, this study explored research conception and research engagement of English as a second/foreign language (L2) researchers as stakeholders of research in higher education communities of practice. To this end, 10 Masters students, 10 doctoral students, and 10 instructors in L2 education of English in different…
Descriptors: Higher Education, English (Second Language), Graduate Students, College Faculty
Ebadi, Saman; Pourahmadi, Fereshteh – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
This study is intended to explore challenges in writing master theses from postgraduate English as Foreign Language (EFL) students' and supervisors' perspectives. To do so, 40 EFL postgraduate students and 10 supervisors were selected nonrandomly based on availability sampling from five major Iranian universities. Qualitative data were gathered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
Yousefi, Reihanne; Tahriri, Abdorreza; Tous, Maryam Danaye – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2019
Developing research performance has become an important theme in Iranian higher educational institutions as other national and international academic institutions across the world. However, the research performance of Iranian Teaching English as a Foreign Language postgraduate candidates has been argued to be limited. In order to increase their…
Descriptors: Productivity, English (Second Language), Student Research, Second Language Learning
Robati, Fatemeh-Al-Sadat; Tonkaboni, Forouzan – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The present study investigates the hidden experiences of students in the doctoral programs. This qualitative study was performed using the phenomenological method. The data were collected through the interview. The population consists of PhD graduates whose study period had passed. Using normal purposeful sampling, 45 graduates were interviewed.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Experience, Student Research, Doctoral Programs
Hasrati, Mostafa – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
This article is part of a larger scale project on some aspects of the process of academic socialization of a group of Iranian Ph.D. students studying in five UK universities, particularly focusing on the relationship between these students and their supervisors. The study included eight engineering and five social sciences/humanities students, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Supervision
