Tesfaye Habtemariam Gezahegn
Associate Professor
Contact
- Address
- Ethiopia
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- Website
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6343-0898
Bio:
Tesfaye is an Associate Professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), the Executive Research Director and President of the Ethiopian English Language Professional Association - South Chapter with publications authored on several prominent Journals focusing on Educational Technology, English Language Teaching and Thesis Supervision. He brings over 28 years’ of experience in teaching, research, research management and supervision, having led seventeen research centers and coordination offices and managing a number of country-focused research projects for the Hornby Trust-British Council, the Ethiopian Ministry of Education and Arba Minch University Ethiopia.
- Education:
- PhD in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- M. Ed in Trainer Development-ELT, University of St. Mark and St. John, UK
- B. Ed in Teaching English, Dilla University, Ethiopia
- Expertise:
- Educational Technology and Online Learning in English Language Teaching
- Feedback and Thesis Supervision in Teaching English
- Experiential Learning in English Language Teaching
- Research publications:
- Supervisors' and supervisees' perception and perceived practice of a process-oriented thesis written feedback: The case of Ethiopian universities
- Effects of information communication technology-assisted teaching training on English language teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and English language proficiency
- English language teachers’ engagement in and preference for experiential learning for professional development
- Mobile-based aural oral skill lessons: The effects on EFL teacher trainees’ oral performance
- Professional development for academic engagement: Primary school EFL teachers’ perceptions and predictors
- Business and Economics Students’ Conceptions of and Approaches to Learning
- The Effect of the Mobile-Based Lesson Approach on the Attitude and Performance of EFL Teacher Trainees’ Aural Skills
- TEFL trainees’ attitude to and self-efficacy beliefs of academic oral presentation
- Effects of Training in ICT-Assisted English Language Teaching on Secondary School English Language Teachers' Knowledge, Skills, and Practice of Using ICT Tools for Teaching English
- EFL supervisors’ written feedback focus and language functions: a mixed methods study
- AMU Funded Projects:
- Improving Quality of Teaching English Language through ICT tools: Arba Minch, Sawla and Arba Minch Community Secondary schools in Focus, Project code-GOV/AMU/GRAND/CSSH/GES/01/11-14 (Completed)
- Sophomore Students` Conceptions of and Approaches to Learning with Reference to Selected Undergraduate programs at Arba Minch University. Project Code-GOV/AMU/TH23/CSSH/DELL/04/12-14 (Completed)
- EFL Supervisors’ Written Feedback on TEFL Supervisees’ Theses: Supervisors and Supervisees Perspectives in Selected Ethiopian Universities. Project code -GOV/AMU/TH23/CSSH/DELL/03/12-14 (Completed)
- Supervisors and Supervisees Preferences of Virtual Tools and their Self-efficacy Belief of virtual these Feedback in English as a Foreign Language Context. Project code GOV/AMU/TH22/CSSH/ELL-AML/03/13-14 (On going)
- Collaborative Projects:
- General Education Quality Improvement Program (GEQUIP) funded by World Bank Partnering with Ministry of Education. Project duration was 2009 to 2010 (Completed)
- ICGEB Enset Project. Project Code- EXT/ITA/ERD/02/2013. Completed.
- Innovative Enset Project. Project Code- Project Code- EXT/ITA/ERD/02/2013. (Ongoing).
- Department: English Language and Literature