Workshops & Conference Presentations
2011
- Bahloul, Maher. 2011.“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 ), (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sharjah-Theatres-Group/115800211790609 )
- Bahloul, Maher. 2011. “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 ), (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sharjah-Theatres-Group/115800211790609 )
- Bahloul, Maher. 2011.“Teaching and Learning Through Filmmaking” Paper/Workshop presented at the European Teacher Education Network (ETEN) Annual Conference. ‘Educating for International Orientation’http://www.eten2011.eu/. Amsterdam, 14-17 April. See sample production (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ZrFqlNAc4)
- Bahloul, Maher. 2011. “Integrating Filmmaking into Teaching and learning”. Paper/Workshop presented at the 17th International TESOL Arabia Conference & Exhibition ‘Rethinking English Language Teaching’. Dubai, UAE. 10-12 March (http://tesolarabia.org/conference/ ).
2010
- Bahloul, Maher. 2010. “Empowering Language Teachers Through Corpus-Based Grammar”. Paper presented at TESOL France 29th Annual Colloquium. Paris, France (http://www.tesol-france.org/index.php). 26-28 November.
- Bahloul, Maher. 2010.“Innovation in language teaching: learning through performing arts”. Paper presented at the International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2010), Valencia: Spain (March 10-12) (http://www.iated.org/inted2010/ ).
2009
- Bahloul, Maher. 2009. “Innovation In Language Teaching: Learning Through Acting” Paper presentated at UPALS ICL 2009 - AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGES, Penang, Malaysia (May 27-28)
- Bahloul, Maher. 2009. “Rolling the Camera in the classroom: Learning through Film Making” Innovations in Teaching Children and Teenagers. IATEFL & YL and Learning Technologies SIG. Milan, March 23-25, 2009
- Bahloul, Maher. 2009. Plenary Speaker “Teaching English Demonstratives: An Alternative Speaker-based Approach”. The First Sharjah Colloquium: Learning and Teaching Through the ELT Classroom. English Language center, University of Sharjah, UAE (March 16)
2008
- Bahloul, Maher .2008. “Descriptive Vs Prescriptive Approaches: Teaching English Tenses” English Language center, University of Sharjah, UAE (14 October ).
- Bahloul, Maher .2008. “Learning Through Film Making: A Case Study” TESOL Arabia Annual International Conference: Dubai Men’s College: Dubai, UAE (13-15 March).
2007
- Bahloul, Maher .2007. “Fostering Students’ Learning of English Tenses” TESOL Arabia International Conference: Dubai, UAE 15-17 March.
- Al-Jaboor, Ali & Maher Bahloul. 2007. “Learning English Modals: A Corpus-based Practice Approach”, TESOL Arabia International Conference: Dubai, 15-17 March.
- Bahloul, Maher. 2007. “The Uvular /q/ and itsvariantsAcrossArabicDialects: A sociolinguisticAnalysis”, Colloque typologie des parlers arabes modernes: traits, méthodes et modèles de classification, Montpellier, France, 14-15 May.
2006
- Bahloul, Maher. 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.
- Bahloul, Maher. 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.
- Bahloul, Maher. 2006. “Whom to Believe: The Textbook or the Teacher?”.The Annual Conference of Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Snow College, Utah. April 7.
2005
- Bahloul, Maher. 2005. “‘The Uvular Sound ‘Q’: A Sociolinguistic Analysis”The 19th Arabic Linguistic Symposium. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1-3 April 2005.
- Bahloul, Maher. 2005. “Spelling & Pronunciation: Unveiling the link”TESOL Arabia Literature SIG Conference. Emirates Aviation College, Dubai, UAE. December 15, 2005.
- Bahloul, Maher & Raja Mallek. 2005. “Assessing English Language Textbooks”. The 4th Annual English Language Teaching in Schools conference held in Sharjah on November 24
- Bahloul, Maher. 2005. “Assessing graduating students’ performance”The 9th TESOL Arabia CTELT Conference. Dubai Men’s College, Dubai. UAE. November 16-17, 2005.
- Bahloul, 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.
- Bahloul, Maher. 2005. “Enhancing Learning Through Corpus Linguistics”.11th TESOL Arabia International Conference. Dubai , 8-10 March 8-10 2005.
- Bahloul, Maher. 2005. “Designing Questionnaires for Action Research” 11th TESOL Arabia International Conference. Dubai , 8-10 March 2005.
2004
- Bahloul, Maher. 2004. “Negation and Negative Sensitive Items in Arabic Dialects” co-presented with Dr. ElabbasBenmamoun at the 18th Arabic Linguistic Society Annual Conference, University of Oklahoma, USA, March 19-20, 2004.
- Bahloul, Maher. 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.
- Bahloul, Maher. 2004. “From Hurtful to Helpful Comments”The 8th TESOL Arabia CTELT Conference. American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, December 8-9, 2004.
- Bahloul, Maher. 2004. “Toward a Theory of Foreign Language Spelling”, paper presented at The Annual TESOL convention, TESOL 2004. Long Beach, California, USA, March 31-April3
- Bahloul, Maher. 2004. “Tenses in Journalistic Discourse: Challenging English Grammar Textbooks” presented at TESOL-Spain 2004, March 26-28, Madrid.
- Bahloul, Maher. 2004. “Toward a Process-Based Approach (PBA) of College Writing Assessment” presented at the 10th TESOL Arabia International Conferenceheld at the Rotana Hotel in Dubai, March 10-12, 2004.
2003
Bahloul, Maher& 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
2002
- Bahloul, Maher. 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.
- Bahloul, Maher& 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.
2001
Bahloul, Maher. 2001. “Writing an Article: It all Starts in the Classroom”, Paper presented at the 7th TESOL Arabia International Conference ‘Research, Present, Publish’ American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, U.A.E. November 15, 2001.
2000
- Bahloul, Maher. 2000“Spelling Errors and the Interference Hypothesis”Paper presented at Association Française de LinguistiqueAppliqueé (AFLA) 2000 International Conference. University ofJussieu, Paris, France. 6-8 July 2000.
- Bahloul, Maher. 2000. “Spelling Mistakes and the Interference Hypothesis” Paper presented at the 5th TESOL Arabia international Conference. Al-Ain University, April 12-14, UAE.
1994
Bahloul, Maher. 1994. “Extending the NegP Hypothesis”, Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.
1991
Bahloul, Maher. 1991. “The Copula in Standard Arabic”. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. University of Ann Arbor, Michigan. USA
1992
- Bahloul, Maher. 1992. “Verbal Morphology, Tense/Aspect and the Structure of IP”. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Ohio State University. USA.
- Bahloul, Maher. 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.
- Bahloul, Maher& 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.
