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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Writing Studies

Teaching areas

ESP, EAP, Applied Linguistics, Literacy, Discourse Analysis

Research areas

Cultural impact on literacies, thought patterns and discourse organization

Education

CERTESL, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 2010;
BA, English, University of Khartoum, Sudan, 1985;
MA, (TESOL), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, 1989;
PhD, University of Exeter, UK, 1993;

Professional experience

Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta , Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2005-2008;
Department of English, American University of Sharjah, UAE, 2008-2013;
Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2013-2014;
Institute for Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2002-2005;
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences EAP Program, the George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, 2014-2016;

Memberships

British Association of Lecturers of English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP);Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics;TESL Canada; TESL Ontario;The International Society for Language Studies

Contact

asayidina@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2498

Dr. Aisha Sayidina

Assistant Professor
PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Exeter, UK

Aisha Sayidina is an applied linguist with teaching specialty and research interests in discourse analysis, contrastive rhetoric, and academic writing and literacy. She published the results of her empirical research in peer reviewed journals investigating the impact of L1 literacy practices on subsequent literacies. Her paper “Transfer of L1 Cohesive Devices and Transition Words into L2 Academic Texts: The Case of Arab Students” offers insights into the rhetorical strategies preferred by Arabic speakers. She is currently researching Chinese students’ use of attribution in academic texts. Prior to joining AUS, Dr. Sayidina was teaching at George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

Publications

The Finite English Verb Group: A Working Book.Muenchen: LINCOMEUROPA. 2001.
Transfer of L1 Cohesive Devices and Transition Words into L2 Academic Texts: The Case of Arab Students.RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research. Vol. 41.3, December 2010:253-266.
Texture and Culture: Cohesion as a Marker of Rhetorical Organization in Arabic and English Narrative Texts. RELC Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2 (December, 2000): 45-75;
Syntax as a Marker of Rhetorical Organization in written Texts: Arabic and English. IRAL, Vol.XXXVII, No. 4.1999: 291-305
Elements of the English Sentence. Muenchen: LINCOMEUROPA. 2005;

Conference Presentations

"Oralized" Literacy in Arabic Language Education. The 2nd. International Conference: Literacy and Contemporary Society: Spaces, Discourses, Practices. Nicosia, Cyprus, November 28-29, 2017.
Texture and Culture. The 17th. Annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), Nottingham, England,1-5, July, 1997.
Attribution in Graduate Students' Research Papers. TESL Ontario 44th. Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada. November 24-25 2016.
Effective Uses of Blackboard Blogs and Journals in Academic Writing. Technology for Teachers TESL Toronto Conference. Toronto, ON, Canada. January 2016;
The Contrastive Rhetoric Hypothesis and composition teaching to EFL Arab students. The Inaugural MLI Teacher to Teacher Conference. Abu Dhabi: Military Language Institute, 2000.
Flipped and Blended L2 Writing Classes. The Bolashak Fellows Program: George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs, January, 2015
Cohesion and the Role of Culture. 38th. TESL Ontario Conference, Toronto, Ontario Canada, October 28-30, 2010.

Awards and Honors

American University of Sharjah Enhanced Faculty Research Grant 2018-2019
Faculty of Arts Prize 1985
Fulbright Scholarship, Georgetown University 1987-1989
Sir George Arthur Prize 1982
American Association of University Women Fellowship 1988-1989

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