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4th Applied Linguistics Webinar Session Held at TUMS

4th Applied Linguistics Webinar Session Held at TUMS

25 May 2021

The 4th session of TUMS Applied Linguistics Webinar Series 1 entitled “Academic Literacy Development in EAP Classes” was virtually held by the Department of Foreign Languages of Tehran University of Medical Sciences on 23 November, 2020. The keynote speaker was Dr. Amir Zand-Moghaddam, an assoc. professor of applied linguistics at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran, who elaborated on the concept of academic literacy, its underlying components as well as its process of development in EAP classes. The perceptions of university lecturers and students at 10 Iranian universities towards the construct of Academic Literacy were also elaborately compared and contrasted.

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2nd Applied Linguistics Webinar Session Held at TUMS

2nd Applied Linguistics Webinar Session Held at TUMS

25 May 2021

Dr. Behrooz Azabdaftari, an emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Tabriz University, Iran was the keynote speaker of the 2nd session of TUMS Applied Linguistics Webinar Series I on 11 July, 2020 who delivered his talk on “Halliday's Transitivity in EFL Context.” The speaker made a distinction between transitivity in its traditional sense, being a grammatical feature, and the concept of transitivity in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), which is concerned with the mental processes involved in expressing life experiences. Drawing upon Vygotskian epistemology, the speaker argued that the mental processes underlying the verbal structures are basically affected /determined by socio-cultural/historical factors.

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1st Applied Linguistics Webinar Session Held at TUMS

1st Applied Linguistics Webinar Session Held at TUMS

25 May 2021

The first session of TUMS Applied Linguistics Webinar Series I was virtually held by Department of Foreign Languages, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) on 13 June, 2020. The keynote speaker was Dr. Gerhard Leitner, an emeritus Professor of English linguistics at the Department of English of the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. In his talk titled “From the ‘best [British] English’ to ‘Englishes’ and challenges for English Language Teaching”, Prof. Leitner chronologically reviewed through the main existing models of spread of English and touched upon a paradigm shift from World English into World Englishes across time.

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3rd Applied Linguistics Webinar Session Held at TUMS

3rd Applied Linguistics Webinar Session Held at TUMS

25 May 2021

The third session of TUMS Applied Linguistics Webinar Series I was held virtually by the Department of Foreign Languages at Tehran University of Medical Sciences on 12 August, 2020. The keynote speaker was Dr. Javad Gholami, an assoc. Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of English at Urmia University, Iran. In his talk entitled “Principles of Instructed Language Learning and their Embodiment in EFL classes in Iran”, the speaker reviewed a spectrum of theories and models pertaining to instructed language acquisition and provided their down-to-earth practical representations in the actual contexts of EFL classes in Iran.

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Opening Session

Opening Session

23 May 2021

Dr. Shabbidar Vice-Dean for Educational & Research Affairs at the International College and Executive Secretary of the meeting, explained necessity & the program of the course.

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