PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
MASTER’S THESIS COMMITTEES
A. Thesis Advisor: thesis in progress “Elementary Bilingual Education in Jordan: Attitudes of Parents and Teachers” by Layla El-Khatib; expected defense in Fall 2011.
B. Thesis Committee Membership: read and commented on the following theses :
- Odeh, NaimZuhdi ( 2008) “L2 Teachers’ Perception Towards the Use of Computers in L2 Language Instruction” (Defended May 12) (74 page thesis)
- Hamidaddin, HodaYahya (2008) “Important Factors to Consider for Bilingual Education in the UAE” (Defended May 14) (140 page thesis)
- Dahan, Laila (2005 ) “LEARNING AND TEACHING ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONALLANGUAGE IN THE ARABIAN GULF: THE ROLE OF CULTURE”
COURSE DEVELOPMENT AND REVISION
- ELT 694: Arts in English language Teaching
- ELT 694: Corpora for ELT Teachers
- ELT 511: Linguistics for ESL Teachers
- TRA 504: Discourse, Semantics & Pragmatics in Translation
- ENG 501: Advanced English Grammar
- TRA 303: Interpreting and the Profession
- ENG 334: Semantics and Pragmatics
- ENG 406: Survey of Topics in Linguistics and Communication
- ENG 331: Phonetics, Phonology & Morphology








