- “When at school, I was always bored with reading, grammar and writing. After years of painfully trying to learn the language by memorizing grammar rules and spending nights over nights memorizing arbitrary vocabulary lists, I promised myself to become an English teacher someday and bring all the joy of learning I could to my classroom. If only my English teachers knew at the time that Teaching at its best could be a joyful, passionate, creative often uncharted adventure !!!”
- Laleh Khojasteh is a PhD candidate in Teaching English as a Second language (TESL) at Universiti Putra Malaysia. She did her first degree in Iran in Translation English to Persian and her master’s degree in India in English literature. She has tutored Literature in English Teaching Materials courses for TESL undergraduates at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her research interests include out of class language learning strategies, academic language-based difficulties, academic writing difficulties as well as corpus-based studies.