Hasan Mohsen Alwadi

• Doctor of Education in TESOL
• Professor (Associate) at Bahrain Teachers College, University of Bahrain

Students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL) or English as a second language (ESL) often struggle with limited vocabulary and poor reading comprehension skills. This action research explores the effectiveness of implementing scaffolding instruction for university level EFL/ESL students in improving their language learning skills, namely c...

It may be argued that flipped classroom is one of the teaching methods that is likely to play a vital role in improving students’ engagement inside mathematics classroom. This chapter seeks to propose and test the effect of pre-class assignment on improving students’ engagement when interpreting relations between geometrical shapes. To achieve this...

This study responds to the international widespread application of content-based instruction in foreign/second language teaching as well as the recent calls in Bahrain to promote literacy skills within the learning of English as a foreign/second language (EFL/ESL). The study achieves this through exploring the effectiveness of using designed conten...

This paper examines the perceptions of school leaders, teachers and education officials of the effectiveness of an Education Leadership Program (ELP) offered at the Bahrain Teachers College )BTC( to school assistant principals and principals, using a multilevel conceptual framework and a 360-degree feedback approach. The multilevel conceptual frame...

Purpose This study arises from a recent school-based professional development (PD) programme conducted for English language teachers (ELTs) in a secondary school in the Kingdom of Bahrain, where a participatory lesson study (PLS) strategy was implemented to develop four ELTs' teaching skills and their senior teacher's leadership. The influence of t...

Comprehending English medical terms represents a major obstacle for medical students, especially the none-native English speaking learners that might lead some of them to failure sometimes. This study was intended to examine the usefulness of a “pre-lecture medical terminology guide” in improving those students’ academic achievement and class parti...

This article examines the perceptions of school assistant principals and principals who completed the Bahrain Teachers College higher diploma of education leadership program about its impact on their performance. The study sample consisted of 141 program graduates from 9- cohorts. A multilevel concept in measuring the impact of the educational lead...

This study examines the usefulness of an alternative supervision model for a group of in-service English Language Teachers (ELT) at the Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) programme at Bahrain Teachers College (BTC), University of Bahrain in developing those teachers’ teaching practices during their teaching practicum. A two-cycle approach was...

The present study investigates the effects of implementing an inquiry-based teaching technique on motivating EFL/ESL student teachers to learn an English content-based course and to become critical toward the knowledge they are exposed to in this course. A quasi-experimental methodology of research was implemented through the one independent group...

The current study aimed at investigating students’ understanding of open education and blinded learning that is implemented by the Arab Open University, Bahrain’s branch in the Kingdom of Bahrain from the students’ point of views. The study also attempted to explore the success that Arab Open University has made in spreading the culture of open edu...

This paper investigates the role English plays as the medium of instruction in reshaping Bahraini senior teachers’ perceptions about their actual role in their schools during their professional development program at the Bahrain Teachers College at the University of Bahrain. The data were collected using questionnaires, semi-structured interviews a...

This paper reviews the concept of professional development and how it has been influenced by the major educational theories. Mainly, this paper argues for a call of a different perspective of the concept professional development in education and provides a critical rationale through certain actions and stands that were initiated by some parties in...

This research paper is the product of a research grant project (49/2012) that was approved and supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research at the University of Bahrain. The study investigates how English language teacher trainees' pre-perceptions of their identities, teaching methods and professional practices shift after joining their in-serv...

Teachers' knowledge has recently become a new area of interest in TESOL. The understanding of the main elements that constitute TESOL teachers' knowledge of their teaching context such as the linguistic, methodological and cultural knowledge is essential to understand the main factors that may, in some cases, negatively affect these teachers' motiv...