A scientific symposium at the University of Maisan about the annual meeting of postgraduate students in the departments of the English language.
The Department of English Language at the College of Education – University of Maisan held a scientific symposium entitle (Annual Meeting for Postgraduate Students in the Departments of English Language) with the participation of professors, experts and researchers from (22) local and international universities.
The symposium included discussion of (33) study projects for postgraduate students from various Iraqi universities under the supervision of the Head of the English Language Department (Dr. Tahseen Ali Mahuder)
The session was moderated by (Asst. Prof. Iqbal Sahib Disher), in addition to the members of (Asst. Prof. Nadia Majid Hussein) and (Inst. Aswan Fakher Jassim).
The symposium dealt with the discussion of postgraduate students project proposals for the English language departments of the various Iraqi universities in the writing phase. The students presented their topics to the committee of experts in the specializations of language, literature, teaching English and applied linguistics, which in turn discussed these topics and gave opinions to develop these proposals to reach a unified coordination for writing these projects at the global level.
The symposium aims to develop the ideas of postgraduate students in the writing stage and direct the students to how to move from the preparatory stage to the writing stage, and to emphasize that the arrangement of the research project is uniform despite the different disciplines.
The symposium recommended activating the scientific citation for postgraduate students’ subjects in the English language departments before the subject of study is approved, and the topics are presented for discussion by the graduate studies committees in the English language departments to ensure their scientific validity and to emphasize the supervisors by taking the recommendations of the scientific committees in the department.
