Arman Abednia

Academic Qualifications 02/2013-04/2018 PhD in Education 

School of Education 

Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia 

PhD thesis: Teacher Identity Construction in a TESOL Graduate Certificate of Education in Western Australia 

10/2004-06/2010 PhD in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) 

Department of English Language and Literature 

Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran. 

PhD thesis: Transformative L2 teacher development: development of a tentative model, exploration of its dynamics and contributions to Iranian L2 teachers' professional identity construction 

Coursework: Second Language Acquisition, First Language Acquisition, Testing and Assessment, Research Methodology, Psycholinguistics, Theories of Linguistics, Materials Development. 

10/2002-09/2004 Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) 

Tarbiat-Modares University, Tehran, Iran 

Master’s thesis: Developing a Language Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale Coursework: Applied Linguistics, Second Language Teaching Methodology, Teaching Second Language Skills, Testing and Assessment, Research Methodology, Psycholinguistics, Theories of Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Syllabus Design, Academic Writing, Seminar. 10/1998-09/2002 Bachelor of Arts in English Translation 

University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran