Dr. Mahboubeh Taghizadeh, Ladan Soleimani & Babak Daneshvar
Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
The purpose of this study was to explore the significance of the indicators, categories, and the elements of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework for the online graduate program of TEFL. A questionnaire including the indicators of the CoI was administered to 100 MA students of TEFL. The results of the data analysis revealed that Setting curriculum and method, Setting climate for learning, Designing method, Press content, and Utilizing medium effectively were reported to be the most important indicators for the online graduate program of TEFL. Considering the categories of the framework, Design and organization was considered the most important, while Affective was found to be the least important category. With regard to the importance of the elements of the CoI, the results also showed that the elements were hierarchically ranked as teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social presence.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Third International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 31 January-1February 2019 , Ahwaz.
