Writing Instruction, Academic Labour, and Professional Development

Labour economics and healthcare professional education

  Healthcare professional education is the undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development for doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals. Labour economics is the relationship between workers and employers, and the resultant effect on employment and wages.   Healthcare professional education ultimately produces a workforce, and that workforce is governed by the rule...

Future Trends in Academic Professional Development

Universities have changed over the past two decades in response to more dynamic employment environments (Hager, Holland, & Beckett, 2003). Government and employers around the world expect university graduates to have more relevant knowledge and, perhaps more importantly, a range of professional skills developed as a result of their university education (Business Higher Education Round Table, 19...

Access and Teachers’ Perceptions of Professional Development in Writing

the comparative impact of prompts and recasts in processing instruction versus meaningful output-based instruction on efl learners’ writing accuracy

the purpose of the present study was to see which one of the two instruction-processing instruction (pi) and meaningful output based instruction (mobi) accompanied with prompt and recast- is more effective on efl learners’ writing accuracy. in order to homogenize the participants in term of language proficiency a preliminary english test (pet) was administrated between 74 intermediate students ...

Promoting Teacher Professional Development through Online Task-Based Instruction

The importance of teachers in the success of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is unquestionable. However, designing a teacher course on TBLT raises many questions concerning ‘what’ and ‘how’ it can be implemented. Can teachers’ professional development be promoted through Task-Based Instruction (TBI)? This paper explores this question by examining the design and implementation of an online c...