Rouhollah Askari Bigdeli

Yasouj University

[ 1 ] - Challenges of Action Research: Insights From Language Institutes

Action research is a small-scale intervention in the functioning of the real world to address practitioners’ own issues and carry out a close examination of the effects of such an intervention. Classroom-based research, or action research, can be the viable solution to some pandemic academic sluggishness and scientific apathy. However, the erroneous impression that research is an elite discipli...

[ 2 ] - Master’s Thesis Writing: Cinderella of Iranian ELT Education

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...

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