Name of Staff : Associate Professor Dr. Thomas Chow Voon Foo
Designation : Dean
Qualifications : Ph.D. (USM), B.A. (Hons.) TESOL (University of Strathclyde), Cert. Ed. TESL (MPJN).
Recent Publications
- Hossein Vafadar & Thomas Chow Voon Foo (2020). The Effects of Communication Strategies Instruction on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate, The Asian EFL Journal Quarterly, Vol. 24/4, 130-173.
- Hossein Vafadar, Thomas Chow Voon Foo & Afsar Rouhi (2019). The Effects of Communication Strategies on Intermediate EFL Low and Mid-Willing Learners’ Willingness to Communicate: Personality Types and Learners’ Choice, Taiwan Journal of TESOL
Vol. 16/2, 101-150.
- June Chiang Kai Sing, Thomas Chow Voon Foo & Malini Ganapathy. (2018). Graded Readers: The Importance of Using Stylistic Devices to Maximise Language Learners’ Aesthetic Reading, International Journal of Language, Literacy and Translation, Vol. 1/1, 1-8.
- Mayyada Mahdi Ra’uf & Thomas Chow Voon Foo. (2017). Academic Writing in Science: Iraqi EFL Postgraduates’ Difficulties in Writing Abstracts of Theses and Dissertations in Physical Disciplines, Advanced Science Letters, Vol. 23/4, 2734–2739.
- Hosein Vafadar Samian, Thomas Chow Voon Foo & Hassan Mohebbi. (2016). The Effects of Giving and Receiving Marginal L1 Glosses on L2 Vocabulary Learning by Upper Secondary Learners, English Language Teaching, Vol. 9/2, 66-76.
- Maki Naiemi & Thomas Chow Voon Foo. (2015). Vocabulary Acquisition through Direct and Indirect Learning Strategies, English Language Teaching, Vol. 8/10, 142-151.
- Waltraud Brigitte Mayr, Thomas Chow Voon Foo & Akmar Mohamad. (2015). Target Situation Analysis in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Malaysia-based Multi-national Enterprises: the case of German, International Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 7/2, 94-132.
- Maki Naiemi & Thomas Chow Voon Foo. (2015). Vocabulary Acquisition through Direct and Indirect Learning Strategies, English Language Teaching, Vol. 8/10, 142-151.
- Seyed Saber Alavi, Thomas Chow Voon Foo & Mansour Amini. (2015). L2 Proficiency Development through Noticing Feedback, International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, Vol. 2/5, 25-41
Research Interest
- ESL Writing
- ESL Pedagogy
- Feedback and teacher-learner interaction
Official Correspondence Address:
School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences
Wawasan Open University
54 Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah,
10050 Penang
Email Address:
thomaschow@wou.edu.my