Research on EFL doctoral thesis writing is booming. The literature indicates a link between and identity formation. Despite the call for scholarly attention writers, writers of theses in English as Foreign language (EFL) settings have not been well represented previous studies. Moreover, although writer has proposed consisting four aspects, most research mainly adopted corpus approach to discus...

This systematic review of the last seven years aims to identify and analyze emotional engagement in academic writing or undergraduate thesis. Referring Pekrun's academic, theory, object focus a thesis is loaded with content besides cognitive social aspects. The discrepancy between error targeted plan evokes positive negative emotions. Ten relevant studies literature search 2016-2022 are include...

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 process of responding to supervisory feedback requires student writers position themselves toward both the provider and content that feedback, indicating their stance in interaction evolving disciplinary competence. How positionings are discursively shaped, developed, enacted influence thesis revisions, however, has been relatively unexplored. In this article, we trace how two master’s stud...

metadiscourse markers help writers make coherent and reader- friendly texts, thus of considerable importance in academic writing. the main aim of this study was to investigate how interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers are used by iranian efl learners. an inquiry was carried out to investigate cross-cultural similarities and differences in the use of metadiscourse markers in the di...