Meri Nasilyan (MA TEFL ’12), Rozita Aghamalyan (MA TEFL ’12), and Addeh Hovassapian (MA TEFL ’11) will present alongside Dr. Irshat Madyarov, assistant professor and MA TEFL program chair. Their presentation, entitled “The Death of an Academic Writing Course,” highlights the findings of a recent study investigating the effectiveness of AUA’s academic writing course on students’ academic performance.
Lilit Manvelyan, a 2nd year MA TEFL student, will co-present with Dr. Rai Farrelly, assistant professor in the MA TEFL Program. For the first time, the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching internship employed the co-teaching model, where two teachers work together to plan and implement lessons in the classroom. Lilit focuses on the attitudes and experiences of the pre-service teachers and their language learners. Dr. Farrelly focuses on the effectiveness of co-teaching as a pre-service teacher education tool. The title of their presentation is “Introducing Co-Teaching for EFL Pre-Service Teacher Development.”
Narine Gevorgyan, a 2nd year MA TEFL student, will present on the use of voice recording software to support English language learners as they develop their speaking skills. This work is based on her Capstone Thesis research. The title of her presentation is “Practicing speaking through VoiceThread, Voxopop and Voki.”
Sevan Adourian and Tamar Adourian, 2nd year students in the MA TEFL Program, will present research conducted at AUA to explore the role of self-assessment in adult EFL courses offered in our Extension Program. The project is the Capstone Thesis research of Sevan and will be conducted with the support of Tamar.
Sirush Vardazaryan, a 2nd year MA TEFL student will present her Capstone Thesis research, which explores the challenges faced by Armenian teachers when attempting to implement student-centered teaching in the language classroom. The title of her presentation is “Problems of Implementing Collaborative Learning in Armenia.”
Ninel Gasparyan, a 2nd year MA TEFL student, will present an EFL content-based instruction (CBI) course she designed this year. She is implementing the course in the Spring as part of the fulfillment for her Capstone Design Project. Her presentation is entitled “Dancing: Teaching English through Body Movement.” This innovative approach to language teaching will merge her passion for language teaching with her years of dance experience.
Mariam Davtyan, a 2nd year MA TEFL student, will present an EFL CBI course that she designed this year. She is also implementing her course in the Spring for her Capstone Design Project. Her presentation, “Arts and Crafts: Fostering Creative Language Learning,” will showcase her approach to teaching EFL to children through arts and crafts.
These two CBI courses are among the first ever content-based instruction courses offered in Armenia. CBI courses are characterized by a focus on teaching English through the medium of a primary content, such as an academic subject, or in these cases – through the arts. Course design requires consideration for learning objectives that target language knowledge and skills, content knowledge, and learning strategies. We are very excited to evaluate these courses in the Spring to measure the experiences of all involved – teachers, students and parents. In addition to the two courses, being showcased in Dubai, we have other students implementing CBI courses which center on: Disney movies and songs, creative writing, documentary films, worldwide folktales, and global citizenship.
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