Master of Arts Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages MA TESOL
Dr. John Battenburg
Professor and Department Head
John Battenburg was awarded a PhD in English Linguistics and American Literature from Purdue University, USA. He has taught at institutions such as Purdue University and California Polytechnic State University in the US, and the University of Tunis, Tunisia. He served as US AID Consultant in Costa Rica, a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Tunisia, and a US State Department Academic Specialist in Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Austria. His teaching interests focus on general linguistics, applied linguistics and American literature through the 19th century. His research interests include international education, forensic linguistics, language policy and planning, lexicography and second language teaching.
Dr. Khawlah Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Khawlah Ahmed earned a PhD in English, with a minor in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), from the State University of New York, USA. She has taught for more than 15 years in institutions such as the State University of New York, Erie County School District in New York, and institutions in the Middle East in the capacity of both administrator and faculty member. Her research interests include examining theories of teaching that facilitate learning in mainstream and ESP/EFL/ESL contexts, curriculum development, intercultural communication, culturally relevant pedagogy and the Arab Islamic culture and its connections to the English language and literature.
Dr. Naghmana Z. Ali
Assistant Professor
Naghmana Z. Ali earned a PhD in Adult Education from the University of Toronto, Canada. She trained English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and taught linguistics courses for over 16 years in Nigeria, Pakistan and Canada. Her research interests are curriculum development, language culture and identity, teacher education, women and education, second language education and bilingualism.
Dr. Ahmad Al-Issa
Associate Professor
Ahmad Al-Issa earned a PhD in Rhetoric and Linguistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars in applied linguistics and communication in the US, Germany and Jordan. His areas of research include cross-cultural communication, language and identity, global English, pragmatics, classroom research, teaching effectiveness and curriculum design. He is a member of many international organizations and a recipient of several international research grants. He has published many articles and book chapters, and presented papers and workshops in many parts of the world.
Dr. Fatima Badry
Professor
Fatima Badry earned a PhD in Psycholinguistics from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. She has taught courses, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in first and second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, Arabic language and English composition, in the US, Morocco and the UAE. Her research activities are in the areas of applied linguistics, bilingualism and education policy. While in Morocco, she was a representative of an international non-governmental organization on child labor and produced investigative reports on child labor.
Dr. Maher Bahloul
Associate Professor
Maher Bahloul earned a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University, New York. He has taught in English, translation and linguistics departments for more than 22 years at institutions such as Cornell University and State University of New York at Binghamton, USA; King Saud University, Saudi Arabia; University of Sfax, Tunisia; and AUS. His areas of research and teaching interest are theoretical and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and teaching and learning through the arts.
Dr. Peter Crompton
Assistant Professor
Peter Crompton earned a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Lancaster, England. He has taught English and linguistics since 1992 at colleges and universities in the UK, China, Saudi Arabia, Brunei and the UAE. His research interests include text analysis, corpus linguistics and language transfer. His publications involve the application of insights from corpus-based linguistic and discourse analysis to problems in language and literacy education, particularly in the areas of English for specific purposes and academic writing.
Dr. Tharwat M. El-Sakran
Professor
Tharwat M. El-Sakran earned a PhD from the University of Bangor, UK. His research interests are in the fields of translation, Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), English for Specific Purposes (ESP), discourse analysis, intercultural communication and socio-linguistics. He has published four books and a substantial number of research papers in peer reviewed journals. Along with his colleagues, he is currently engaged in the teaching of technical communication skills through engineering multidisciplinary projects. In such projects the focus is on teamwork, personality management and development and student-centered learning.
Dr. Cindy Gunn
Associate Professor and Director of Faculty Development Center
Cindy Gunn earned a PhD from the University of Bath, UK. She has taught Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and education courses for more than 22 years in Canada, the United States, Japan, Turkey, Thailand and New Zealand. Her main research paradigm is exploratory practice focusing on the contributions teachers and learners make to classroom research. Her main research interests are reflective teaching and learning, materials development and technology use in education.
Dr. Betty Lanteigne
Assistant Professor
Betty Lanteigne earned a PhD in Rhetoric and Linguistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. She has taught linguistics at undergraduate and graduate levels in the United Arab Emirates for five years, supervising master’s research in applied linguistics. Her areas of research and teaching interests are sociolinguistics and language assessment, pragmatics, stylistics and applied linguistics. Prior to her academic career in linguistics, for ten years she taught English as a second/foreign language at language institutes in the USA (Oregon, Missouri, and Pennsylvania), and at Hebron University in Palestine, Qatar University in Qatar, and Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.
Dr. David Prescott
Associate Professor
David Prescott received his PhD from Curtin University, Australia. For this study he designed implemented and evaluated a post-graduate teaching qualification in different cultural contexts (Australia, Indonesia, South Korea). The outcome was a formative, summative and retrospective evaluation model. He has taught in New Zealand, Singapore, Australia and Brunei and worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program and the Australian and Brunei Governments. His research interests are collaborative online learning, Internet literacy, online teacher training, classroom-based action research. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts for services to English Language teacher training.
Dr. Rodney Tyson
Associate Professor
Rodney Tyson earned a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. He has taught for more than 20 years at institutions including the University of Arizona as well as Hong Ik University, Ewha Woman’s University and Daejin University in Korea. He teaches undergraduate courses in academic writing, writing for business, and linguistics as well as graduate courses in the Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MATESOL) program. His research and professional interests include second language reading and writing, language teacher training, Korean language and culture, and Korean-English translation.
