Keivan Seyyedi

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at Cihan University-Erbil

Critical pedagogy has recently started to have an impact on the field of TESOL—teaching English to speakers of other languages—by introducing some new socio-political views of language teaching and linguistics. In this research, two main aims are set forward. The first aim is to explain the new concept of critical pedagogy and make suggestions for...

The present survey investigates the contribution rate of linguistics in the process of translator education at Iraqi universities. Here, those linguistic aspects are studied which Iraqi translation teachers have relied on to teach translation to undergraduate students and educate them to become competent translators. In the course of the study, 45...

Academic writing is commonly regarded as a means to facilitate communication between authors and readers. As a result, scholars are expected not only to present information about the external world through their texts but also to employ language to acknowledge, construct, and foster social connections. Textual engagement requires significant lingui...

Numerous second language acquisition scholars assert that mere exposure to language is insufficient. They claim that activities that are only focused on message development are insufficient for developing a correct grasp of the language and urge a more form-centered approach to language instruction. 'Focus on form' (FonF) is a fundamental concept i...

The development of Machine Translation (MT) systems and their application in performing translation projects gave a crucial position to the evaluation of these systems’ outputs. Recently, the Google Translate MT system added the central accent of the Kurdish language to its language list. The current study is an attempt to evaluate the acceptabilit...

This study attempts to demonstrate how a task-based syllabus (TBS) can be implemented to facilitate language learning in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment. As a first step, this research clarifies what is meant by "task" in the context of the task-based curriculum. Then, important theories that have contributed to the task-based cu...

The aim of the current study is to identify the reasons behind students' weakness in speaking and determine the challenges of oral communication that some students face in English Department of the Faculty of Arts at Soran University. Quantitative research was used as a method of data collection of this case study to achieve the goal. The populatio...

The main focus of this study is investigating how pre-task planning time influences the writing performance of second language (L2) learners when performing structured vs. unstructured tasks. Fifty first year undergraduate students studying at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang served as the participants of this study. All the participants ach...

Abstract Investigating how the narrative structure influence writing performance of second language learners is the main focus of this study. To provide an empirical support to the effect of structured and unstructured narrative tasks, 25 Malaysian English learners enrolled at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Penang, were asked to write two stori...

Building on Baddeley’s cognitive psychology (2007) and Skehan’s Limited Attentional Capacity Model (2009), this article reports a study of the effects of pre-task planning time (strategic planning time) on Malaysian English learners’ written narratives elicited by means of a picture composition. 50 first-year undergraduate students studying at Univ...

There has never been consensus among researchers for a clear cut definition of reading strategies. This diversity is largely due to the way the term has been used in different contexts such as first language [L1], second language [L2], or foreign language [FL] learning. However, research on second language reading strategies indicates that strategi...

Task-based is a kind of instruction in which language learners, performing activities, are engaged in meaningful, goal-oriented communication to solve problems, complete projects, and reach decisions. Tasks have been used for a broad range of instructional purposes, serving, for example, as units of syllabuses, activities for structure or function...