Maher Bahloul, Ph.D

Cornell University                       American University of Sharjah                              E-mail: mbahloul@ausedu

www.bahloul.com                                     Department of Language                          Office Tel: (971) 5152714

                                                                & Literature                                             Office Fax: (971)5152570

                                                                P.O.Box 26666                                        Mobile: 00971506462113

                                                                                Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

 

Ph.D in Linguistics

Sep.88-May 94

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. U.S.A

Major field: Syntax & Semantics

Minor Field: Discourse & Pragmatics

Dissertation Title: “The Syntax and Semantics of Taxis, Aspect, Tense and Modality in Standard Arabic”

M.A. in Linguistics January 92

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A

Major: Theoretical Linguistics

M.A. (D.E.A)  (Very High Honors). Sep.85 - June 86

Sorbonne University, Paris III, Paris, France

Major Field: Contrastive Linguistics

Minor: Discourse & Pragmatics

 

B.A. (Maitrise)

(Very High Honors)

Sep.85 - June 86
Sorbonne University, Paris III, Paris, France

Major Field: Theoretical Linguistics.

Minor Field: Contrastive Linguistics

                                            

DIPLOMA in Chinese.

Sep.85 - June 87

National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilization, Paris, France.

Major: Chinese Language

Minors: Chinese History & Civilization

LICENSE  in English, Chinese & Arabic

Sep. 82 - May 85

Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages. University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia.

Major: English & Chinese Languages

Minor: Arabic

           

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

 

Teacher Training

Summer 1988                    

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. U.S.A. Training Program consisting of lectures readings, and practical experience in  foreign language teaching with particular emphasis on current teaching methods.

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

 

Assistant Professor

Fall 2006-

American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

·         Teaching graduate TESOL courses.

·         Teaching English & Linguistics BA courses

·         Teaching English Communication courses.

 

Visiting Scholar

Spring 2006

·         University of Utah, USA

o        Department of Languages and Literature

 

Assistant Professor

Fall 2000- Fall 2005

American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

·         Teaching undergraduate and graduate TESOL courses.

·         Teaching English & Linguistics BA courses

·         Teaching English Communication courses.

·         Teaching  Translation courses within the B.A. & M.A in Translation programs.

Assistant Professor

Fall 95 – Spring 2000

College Of Languages & Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

 

  • Taught courses in English language & linguistics.
  • Taught translation courses within the Diploma and B.A in Translation programs.

Language Instructor

Fall 96 – Spring 2000

Intensive English Program, Institute Of Banking, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

·         Taught English language skills ( Grammar, Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking) within the Evening  Intensive Language Program.

 

 

Lecturer

August 93 - Fall 94

Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University. New York, U.S.A.

  • Taught graduate and undergraduate courses within the French Program. (Full teaching responsibilities)
  • Directed graduate translation projects

 

Adjunct Lecturer

August 92 - May 93

Dept. of Classical & Near Eastern Studies. SUNY at Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.

  • Taught courses in Arabic language & linguistics. 
  • Directed graduate linguistic research projects.
  • Directed undergraduate translation projects.

Teaching Assistant

August 88 - May  93

Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University. New York, U.S.A.

  • Taught courses within the French language program (full teaching responsibilities).

 

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

  1. Maher Bahloul, 2006.“Copula”,  Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (EALL). pp. 506-511. BRILL, Leiden – Boston.
  1. Maher Bahloul, 2006.“Agreement”,  Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (EALL). pp. 43-48. BRILL, Leiden – Boston.
  1. Wayne Harbert & Maher Bahloul. 2002.  “Postverbal subjects in Arabic and  the theory of agreement”. In: Themes in Arabic and Hebrew   Syntax, edited by Jamal Ouhalla and Ur Shlonsky, Dordrecht: Kluwer, p. 45-70..                        
  1. Triki Mounir & Maher Bahloul. 2001. “The Reported Speech Revisited: A Question of Self and Expressions”. Academic Research, pp. 1-35. Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Sfax, Tunisia.
  1. Linda Waugh & Maher Bahloul. 1996. “La différence entre le futur simple et le futur périphrastique dans le discours journalistique”. Modèles Linguistiques, Vol.33, XVII, 1, pp. 19-36
  1. Maher Bahloul. 1994. “Extending the NegP Hypothesis: Evidence From Standard Arabic”. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory pp. 31-46.
  1. Maher Bahloul. 1994. The Syntax and Semantics of Taxis, Aspect Tense and Modality in Standard Arabic. 250pp. Cornell University, DMLL Publications.
  1. Maher Bahloul. 1993. “The Copula in Modern Standard Arabic” Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 101, pp 200 - 229. John Benjamin’s Publishing Company.
  1. Maher Bahloul & Wayne Harbert. 1993. “Agreement Asymmetries in Arabic”. The Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Jonathan Mead Edition, pp. 15-31.
  1. Linda Waugh, Theresa Antes & Maher Bahloul. 1992. Review of Tense and Text: A Study of French Past Tenses by Engel Dulcie, Routledge (Croom Helm Romance Linguistics Series), 1990.Studies in Language, 16: 1, pp. 192-200.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS  (FORTHCOMING)

  1. Maher Bahloul. Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb. Accepted for publication by Routledge (book)
  2. Maher Bahloul. “Linguistic Diversity: The Qaf Across Arabic Dialects” In Benmamoun (ed). Perspectives on Arabic linguistics 19. John Benjamins. (book chapter)
  3. Maher Bahloul. “Spelling Errors of Arab Learners: Evidence for Intergraphemic Mapping”. In Coomb and Barlow (eds), Language Teacher Research in the Middle East (book chapter)
  4. Maher Bahloul. “Real Tense Usage and the Tense we Teach” Submitted to The Journal of the Utah Academy. (Journal Paper)
  5. Maher Bahloul. “The Pragmatics of the Discourse Modal Tab’an in Conversational Arabic.” In Owens (ed),  (book chapter)
  6. Maher Bahloul. “The Particle QAD in Arabic: Is it a Syntactic Filler?” In Mughazy (ed). Perspectives on Arabic linguistics 20. John Benjamins. (book chapter)

 

BOOKS IN PROGRESS

  • Before You Start Teaching.

 

WORKING PAPERS

 

1.         Maher bahloul. “Toward a Theory of Foreign Language Spelling”

2.         Maher Bahloul “Tenses in Journalistic Discourse: Challenging English Grammar Textbooks”

3.        Maher Bahloul  “The Use of ‘Recommend’ in Graduating Students’ Writing’

4.        Maher Bahloul. “The Pragmatics of English Demonstratives and Language Teaching”

5.        Maher Bahloul. “Assessing ESL Writing: Towards a Process Based Approach”.

6.        Maher Bahloul. “Enhancing Learning Through Corpus Linguistics”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PAPER PRESENTATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCES

 

1.         Maher Bahloul. 2006. “The Pragmatics of the Particle Tab'an in Conversational Arabic”. The Conference on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic. University of Maryland, June 8-10.

2.         Maher Bahloul. 2006. “Whom to Believe: The Textbook or the Teacher?”. The Annual Conference of Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Snow College, Utah. April 7.

3.       Maher Bahloul. 2006. “The Verbal Particle Qad in Arabic: Is it a Syntactic Filler?”  The 20th Arabic Linguistic Symposium. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, March 3-5, 2006.

4.        Maher Bahloul. 2005. “Spelling & Pronunciation: Unveiling the link” TESOL Arabia Literature SIG Conference. Emirates Aviation College, Dubai, UAE. December 15, 2005.

5.      Maher Bahloul & Raja Mallek. 2005. “Assessing English Language Textbooks”. The 4th Annual English Language Teaching in Schools conference held in Sharjah on November 24

6.        Maher Bahloul. 2005. “Assessing graduating students’ performance”  The 9th TESOL Arabia CTELT Conference. Dubai Men’s College, Dubai. UAE. November 16-17, 2005.

7.         Maher & Raja Bahloul. 2005. “‘The Pragmatics of English Demonstratives and Language Teaching” The 9th International Pragmatics Conference. Riva Del Garda, Italy, 10-15 July 2005.

8.         Maher Bahloul. 2005. “‘The Uvular Sound ‘Q’: A Sociolinguistic Analysis” The 19th Arabic Linguistic Symposium. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1-3 April 2005

9.         Maher Bahloul. 2005. ““Enhancing Learning Through Corpus Linguistics”. 11th TESOL Arabia International Conference. Dubai , 8-10 March 8-10 2005.

10.      Maher Bahloul. 2005. ““Designing Questionnaires for Action Research” 11th TESOL Arabia International Conference. Dubai , 8-10 March 2005.

11.      Maher Bahloul. 2004. “From Hurtful to Helpful Comments”  The 8th TESOL Arabia CTELT Conference. American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, December 8-9, 2004.

12.      Maher Bahloul. 2004. “Toward a Theory of Foreign Language Spelling”, paper presented at The Annual TESOL convention, TESOL 2004. Long Beach, California, USA,  March 31-April3

13.      Maher Bahloul. 2004. “Tenses in Journalistic Discourse: Challenging English Grammar Textbooks” presented at TESOL-Spain 2004, March 26-28, Madrid.

14.      Maher Bahloul. 2004. “Negation and Negative Sensitive Items in Arabic Dialects”  co-presented with Dr. Elabbas Benmamoun at the Arabic Linguistic Society Annual Conference, University of Oklahoma, USA, March 19-20, 2004.

15.      Maher Bahloul. 2004.  “Toward a Process-Based Approach (PBA) of College Writing Assessment” presented at the TESOL Arabia Annual Conference to be held at the Rotana Hotel in Dubai, March 10-12, 2004.

16.      Maher Bahloul. 2004. “The Sound ‘Q’ in Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Analysis” presented at The Third International Conference on Middle Eastern and North African Popular Culture. American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, January 25-27, 2004

17.      Maher Bahloul & Ron Sheen. 2003.  “Assessing Writing Progress of ESL Learners: What Went Wrong?” presented the TESOL Arabia 7th Annual CTELT Conference American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE. December 10-12, 2003

18.      Maher Bahloul. 2002. “Real Tense Usage and the Tense We Teach: Revisiting the Past Perfect” Paper  presented at The First Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) group International Conference on  "Language in Use and Language in the Classroom"  Hosted jointly by The University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland  14 - 15 June 2002.

19.      Maher Bahloul & Raja Bahloul. 2002. “When the Use Violates the Rules: Revisiting Reported Speech” Paper presented at the 7th International BUSEL Conference ‘A Fresh Look at Grammar and Vocabulary’, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey 24-26 January 2002.

20.      Maher Bahloul. 2001. “Writing an Article: It all Starts in the Classroom”, Paper presented at TESOL Arabia Conference ‘Research, Present, Publish’  American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, U.A.E. November 15, 2001.

21.      Maher Bahloul. 2000“Spelling Errors and the Interference Hypothesis” at Association Francaise de Linguistique Applique (AFLA)  2000 International Conference. University of Jussieu, Paris, France.  6-8 July 2000.

22.      Maher Bahloul. 2000. “Spelling Mistakes and the Interference Hypothesis”      Paper presented at the TESOL Arabia 2000 Conference. Al-Ain University, April 12-14, UAE.

23.      Maher Bahloul. 1998. “When English Acronyms are Translated to Arabic: Semantic Ambiguity and Solutions” Paper presented at a  conference  entitled  “Generalizing Arabization  and Developing  Translation    in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” Sep. 22-23, 1998 King Saud University, KSA.

24.      Maher Bahloul. 1994. “Extending the NegP Hypothesis”. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.

25.      Maher Bahloul & Raja Bahloul 1993. “Subject-verb Agreement, Variation and Salience”. Paper presented at the Seventh Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, University of Austin, Texas, USA.

26.      Maher Bahloul. 1992. “Verbal Morphology, Tense/Aspect and the Structure of IP”. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Ohio State University. USA

27.     Maher Bahloul & Wayne Harbert. 1992. “Agreement Asymmetries in Arabic”. Paper presented at  The Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of  California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.

28.      Maher Bahloul. 1991. “The Copula in Standard Arabic”. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. University of  Ann Arbor, Michigan. USA

 

RESEARCH, TRAVEL  & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

1-    Maher Bahloul. 2006. “‘The Particle QAD in Arabic: Is it a Syntactic Filler?” The 20th Arabic Linguistic Symposium. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, March 3-5, 2006.. (AUS Grant, $760.00)

2-    Maher Bahloul. 2005. “‘The Uvular Sound ‘Q’: A Sociolinguistic Analysis” The 19th Arabic Linguistic Symposium. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1-3 April 2005 . (AUS Grant, $2000.00)

3-    Maher Bahloul, Jerald Cumbus and Ron Sheen. (2004) Project entitled “Assessing the Communication and Writing Program at the American University of Sharjah: An Ethnographic Approach to the Discrepency Analysis Model” (AUS Grant $4000.00)

4-    Maher bahloul. 2004. “Toward a Theory of Foreign Language Spelling”, paper presented at The Annual TESOL convention, TESOL 2004. Long Beach, California, USA,  March 31-April3. (AUS Grant, $2000.00)

5-    Maher Bahloul, , (2002) “Visiting Scholar at The Summer Institute of Applied Linguistics, the State University of Pennsylvania, July 1 - July 26, 2002,  Pennsylvania, USA. (TESOL Arabia Grant, Dhs. 2500)

6-    Maher bahloul,  (2002) “Visiting Scholar at The Summer Institute of Applied Linguistics, the State University of Pennsylvania, July 1 - July 26, 2002,  Pennsylvania, USA. (AUS CAS Grant, Dhs 3000)

7-    Maher bahloul. .(2002) “Real Tense Usage and the Tense We Teach: Revisiting the Past Perfect” Paper  presented at The First Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) group International Conference on  "Language in Use and Language in the Classroom"  Hosted jointly by The University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland  14 - 15 June 2002. (Aus Grant, $2000.00)

8-    Maher Bahloul & Raja Mallek (2001), “When the Use Violates the Rules: Revisiting Reported Speech” Paper presented at the 7th International BUSEL Conference ‘A Fresh Look at Grammar and Vocabulary’, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey 24-26 January 2002. (AUS Grant, $2000.00)

 

 

CONFERENCES , SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS

 

 

2005-2006

  • Attended 
    • The 9th International Pragmatics Conference. Riva Del Garda, Italy. July 10-15, 2005.
    • The 9th TESOL Arabia CTELT Conference. Dubai Men’s College, Dubai. UAE. November 16-17, 2005.
    • The 4th Annual English Language Teaching in Schools Conference Sharjah University City, November 24, 2005.
    • The 20th Arabic Linguistic Symposium. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, March 3-5, 2006.
    • The Annual Conference of Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Snow College, Utah. April 7, 2006.
    • The Conference on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic. University of Maryland, June 8-10, 2006.

 

 

2004-2005

  • Attended 
    • The 9th International Pragmatics Conference. Riva Del Garda, Italy