Purpose The purpose of this article is to investigate the effectiveness of accountability
mechanisms employed in financial management practices of school principals in the …

Purpose This paper explores the challenges of conducting qualitative research from ELT
(English Language Teaching) Ph. D. candidates' perspectives. Design/methodology …

One of the significant drawbacks of the English Language Teaching (ELT) Ph. D.
programme in the Iranian ELT setting is the insufficiency of the research courses offered in …

Poor vocabulary retention is one of the major difficulties experienced by English as a foreign
(second) language (EFL/ESL) students. To tackle this problem, the current study explored …

Research in second language teacher education (SLTE) is critical for making short-and long-
term policies and decisions about SLTE programs, materials, methods, etc. Therefore, it is …

This study aims to determine how doctoral students and the faculty members make sense of
academic identity, to examine how doctoral students' academic identity is formed, to analyze …

The current study investigated the Iranian Teaching English as a Foreign language (TEFL)
Ph. D. candidates'(TPCs) professional identity development during the TEFL Ph. D …

This mixed-method study is an attempt to investigate the effects of the Project-based
expressive and referential types of writing instruction on the Iranian English as a foreign …

The present study implemented a narrative inquiry approach to gain a deeper
understanding of how three doctoral students in Türkiye discovered their research interests …

Conducting qualitative research in applied linguistics seems to have some challenges.
Hence, this study aimed to investigate the challenges of applied linguists across different …