Research

2010 - 2011

The European Teacher Education Network (ETEN) Annual Conference. ‘Educating for International Orientation’ http://www.eten2011.eu/e. Amsterdam, 14-17 April 2011.
The 17th International TESOL Arabia Conference & Exhibition ‘Rethinking English Language Teaching’. Dubai, UAE. 10-12 March 2011.
TESOL France 29th Annual Colloquium. Paris, France (http://www.tesol-france.org/index.php). 26-28 November 2010.

“School Theatre: An International Experience” Teacher Training Workshop conducted in Dibba, UAE within the School Theatre Festival organized by Sharjah Theatres Group. April 21. (http://www.stg.gov.ae/en/home.aspx ).
“Teaching and Learning Through Theatre”. Teacher Training Workshop conducted in Sharjah, UAE within the School Theatre Festival organized by Sharjah Theatres Group. April 28. (http://www.stg.gov.ae/en/home.aspx ),

Parisian Workshop on Gesture, Sign and Language Acquisition. Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Institut du Monde Anglophone, April 16; Paris. France.
GraduateLinguistics Symposium; Sorbonne Nouvelle University: SNUGLS 2010 Institut du Monde Anglophone, (April 10, 2010 Paris) France.
International Conference ‘Grammaticalization and Language Acquisition’ CNRS Site Pouchet (March 25-26, 2010) Paris, France.
The International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2010), Valencia: Spain (March 10-12)
“Innovation In Language Teaching: Learning Through Acting” Paper presentated at UPALS ICL 2009 - An International Conference on Languages, Penang, Malaysia (May 27-28)
Innovations in Teaching Children and Teenagers. IATEFL & YL and Learning Technologies SIG. Milan, March 23-25, 2009

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.

18 TESOL Arabia Annual International Conference: Dubai Men’s College: Dubai, UAE (13-15 March, 2008).
TESOL France's NLP Day with Mario Rinvolucri, Paris, France. (June 9, 2007).
2nd AUS TESOL Symposium, May 5, 2007.
Colloque Typologie des parlers arabes modernes: traits, méthodes et modèles de classification, Montpellier, France, (14-15 May, 2007).
17 TESOL Arabia Annual International Conference: Dubai, UAE (15-17 March, 2007).

“Adapting Authentic Materials in the ELT Classroom”,2nd AUS TESOL Symposium, May 5, 2007.

Conducted the following seminar:
- They Graduated, But Their Writing Didn’t: A Case For Writing Across the Curriculum” Faculty Development Center, American University of Sharjah

The 9th International Pragmatics Conference. Riva Del Garda, Italy. 10-15 July 2005
The 19th Arabic Linguistic Symposium. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1-3 April 2005
The 11th TESOL Arabia International Conference. Dubai , 8-10 March 8-10 2005.
The 8th TESOL Arabia CTELT Conference. American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, December 8-9, 2004.

“Tenses in Journalistic Discourse: Challenging ESL Textbooks”, Sponsored by TESOL Arabia, Abu Dhabi Chapter, British Council, Abu Dhabi, 16 December, 2004.
“How to deal with Students’ Spelling Errors” Sponsored by Sharjah Educational Zone, Az-Zahrah Secondary School, Sharjah, 28 March, 2005.
“A Speaker based approach to English Tenses” Sponsored by TESOL Arabia, Sharjah Branch, Shajah Pakistani School, 15 April, 2005.

Participated in the following seminar
- “Students’ low performance/achieving factors at the American University of Sharjah”,Challenges Facing English Teaching in the UAE’. Seminar sponsored by the UAE Ministry of Education, Al-BustanRotana, Dubai, 13 March, 2005.