FACULTY PROFILE – Dr. Syed Muhammad Mujtaba
Category: July 2, 2024

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name Dr. Syed Muhammad Mujtaba
Email smmujtaba.bukc@bahria.edu.pk
Phone +923452950269
Research Area L2 writing, written corrective feedback (WCF), technology in teaching and learning English, task-based language teaching (TBLT), learner individual difference variables, etc.
Number of Publications  11
 

 

AFFILIATIONS
Designation Assistant Professor
Department Humanities & Social Sciences
University Bahria University Karachi Campus
 
 
QUALIFICATION
DEGREE PASSING YEAR MAJORS UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. 2023 English (Language Studies) Universiti Sains Malaysia
M.Phil. 2018 English IQRA University
M.A. / MSc 2015 English language teaching (ELT) National University of Modern Languages (NUML)
BA / BSc      
EXPERIENCE
DESIGNATION FROM TO ORGANIZATION
Assistant Professor 15-08-2023 TO DATE Humanities & Social Sciences Department

 Bahria University, Karachi Campus

Senior Lecturer Jan 2016 Sept 2022 IQRA University
Lecturer June 2015 Dec 2015 Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU)
PUBLICATIONS
1.        Mujtaba, S. M.*, Parkash, R., & Nawaz, M. W. (2019). Do Indirect Coded Corrective Feedback and Teachers Short Affective Comments Improve the Writing Performance and Learners Uptake? Reading & Writing Quarterly, 1-14. (SSCI 2020 IF 1.181 5-Year IF 1.874) * corresponding author

2.       Mujtaba, S.M., Gol, A. K, & Parkash, R. (2021). A study on the relationship between language aptitude, vocabulary size, working memory and L2 writing accuracy. Foreign Language Annals. (SSCI 2021 IF 2.976)

3.        Mujtaba, S.M., Reynolds, B.L., Parkash, R., & Singh, M. K. M. (2021). Individual and Collaborative Processing of Written Corrective Feedback Affects Second Language Writing Accuracy and Revision. Assessing Writing. (SSCI 2021 IF 3.164 5-Year IF 3.780)

4.        Mujtaba, S.M, Reynolds, B., Gao, Y., Parkash, R. & Ha, X. (2023). The effects of recalling and imagining prompts on writing engagement, syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency: A partial replication of Cho (2019). Open Linguistics, 9(1), 20220259. (SCOPUS 2022 SJR 0.280 CiteScore 1.6 Q2)

5.       Mujtaba, S.M. *, Parkash, R., & Reynolds, B.L. (2022). The Effects of Language Proficiency and Online Translator Training on Second Language Writing Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency, and Lexical Complexity. CALL- EJ, 23 (1), 149-166 (SCOPUS 2020 SJR 0.16 CiteScore 0.45 Q2) * corresponding author

6.        Mujtaba, S.M. *, Parkash, R., Singh, M.K.M., & Gol, A.K. (2022). The effect of computer-mediated feedback on L2 accuracy. Does the difference in learners’ perceptual style moderate the effectiveness of the feedback? Computers in the Schools (SCOPUS 2020 SJR 0.52 CiteScore 1.6 Q1) * corresponding author

7.        Mujtaba, S.M.*, Singh, M.K.M. (2023). The Efficacy of Written Corrective Feedback in ESL/EFL Context:

  A Synthesis of Present and Past Studies. MEXTESOL Journal (SCOPUS2021SJR0.162SNIP0.365

  CiteScore 0.3 Q2) *corresponding author

8.        Mujtaba, S.M., Gol, A.K., & Parkash, R. (2022). The impact of writing strategy instruction: Undergraduate students’ academic writing performance and strategy use. Language Related Research (SCOPUS 2021 SJR 0.207 SNIP 0.247 Citescore 0.257 Q2).

9.        Mujtaba, S. M. *, Singh, M. K. M., Zhang, T., Ahmed, N., & Parkash, R. (2022). Unfocused Written Corrective Feedback and L2 Learners’ Writing Accuracy: Relationship Between Feedback Type and Learner Belief. Journal of Language and Education, 8(4), 137-152 (SCOPUS 2021 SJR 0.22 SNIP 0.501 Q2) * corresponding author

10.    Mujtaba, S.M., Barrot, J.S., Parkash, R. & Nawaz, M.W. (2023). Combining Sociocognitive-transformative Approach and Form-focused Instruction: Effects on L2 Learners’ Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in writing. 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature, 29 (3), 180-194 (SCOPUS 2022 SJR 0.283, Q1)

 

11.    Mujtaba, S.M., Zhang, T., Mao, S.S, & Ahmed, N. (2024 accepted). Model text as corrective feedback in L2 writing: The role of working memory and vocabulary size. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (SSCI 2022 IF 0.97 5-Year IF 1.4 Q1)

 

 

Short Biography

Dr. Syed Muhammad Mujtaba, PhD English (Language Studies),  is Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences at Bahria University Karachi Campus. He has taught English to both undergraduate and graduate students. His research and teaching interests are L2 writing, language teaching pedagogies, and written corrective feedback.

 

List of courses Taught

  • English language teaching
  • Academic & Professional Writing
  • Research Methodology
  • TEFL 2