Personal information

+962797842411

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  Marital status: Married
  
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  Nationality: Jordanian
  
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  Age: 35
  
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  Place of Birth: Hatem - Irbid
  
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  Date of Birth: 01/05/1977
  
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  Mail Address:
  

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  July, 2009- 15 February, 2012
  

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  August, 2001 - August, 2004
  

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  August, 1995- July,1999
  

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  09/09/2012- till now
  

Yarmouk University- Translation Department

Assistant Professor.

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  Dec. 2007 – Jan. 2008
  

A Part-time Instructor of English Language.

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  Feb. 2007 – Oct. 2007
  

A part- time Instructor for Remedial English 101 +102.

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  June 2007 _June 2009
  

A part- time Instructor for English Beginner, Intermediate and TOEFL.

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  Feb. – March 2006
  

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  February 2006 - June 2009.
  

A part- time Instructor for (ESL 101 / 102/ 103/ TOEFLE, Communication 1&2, Study Skills and Fundamentals of English ). Also, Instructor of Islamic Culture and Job Search.

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  August 2004 – June 2009
  

(Both Primary and Secondary)

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  August 2000- July 2004
  

(Both Primary and Secondary stages)

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   English as a Second Language ( Levels 1+2+3
   
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   Intensive English Language( Levels 1-5)
   
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   Communication 1 ( Writing)
   
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   Communication II ( Advance Writing)
   
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   Fundamentals of English.
   
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   Study Skills.100 / 101
   
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   Job Search.
   
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   TOEFL
   
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   ILETS
   
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    Islamic Culture.
    
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    Business Ethics
    

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   Reading and Listening Comprehension (101)
   
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   Vocabulary Building (104)
   
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   Translation of Religious Texts(489)
   
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   Legal Translation (303)
   
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   Texts Linguistics (418)
   
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   Media Translation (306)
   
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   Consecutive Translation (English into Arabic) (275)
   
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   Essay Writing (102)
   

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   Media Translation(689)
   

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   Teaching English as a second language for Non-native speaker.
   
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   Participating in developing procedures and remedies to improve student’s ability in learning English.
   
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   Learning CEPA course.
   
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   Training students for TOEFL test.
   
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   Participating in raising the student's awareness of the importance of teaching English as a second language.
   

7- Planning, organizing , implementing and evaluating the unit activities for each academic year.

8-Administrating diagnostic tests to find out the students' weak points .
9- Preparing daily and annually plans shifting the focus from teacher to student and from teaching to learning .
10- Studying the textbooks so as to list the difficulties, suggest alternatives, suggest modifications and corrections, prepare supplementary exercises and write evaluation reports.
11-Carrying out activities for bright students such as book reports and supplementary readings.
12- Carrying out activities for weak students such as coaching classes and remedial work.
13-Teaching and testing oral skills (listening and speaking)
14- Teaching and testing writing and reading skills.
15- Teaching functional writing that students carry out in the course of their jobs, studies or other activities.
16- Preparing different teaching aids that can help students gain better competence and performance of the language.
17- Helping Students to engage in new and interesting ways to practice vocabulary, reading, writing and comprehensive to build the skills needed for better understanding.
18- Handling remedial works concerning learning English as a foreign language.
19-Attending seminars, MA theses' defenses, workshops or conferences for professional self – development.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

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  ICDL
  
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  Have an excellent Internet Skills
  

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  Fluent in English.( Reading , Listening, Speaking and Writing)
  
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  Fluent in Arabic. .( Reading ,Listening, Speaking and Writing)
  

My Friends describes me as

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  Ambitious
  
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  Highly Educated
  
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  Social
  
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  Cooperative
  
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  Kindhearted
  
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  Honest
  

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  Reading
  
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  Traveling
  
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  Swimming
  
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  Fishing
  

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  The Action Research Project- November 29^th , 2004- UAE- Fujiarah.
  
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  Teaching English via the computer for basic classes.
  
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  Using Technology in Education.
  
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  Ongoing Assessments- UAE- Abu Dhabi October 12,2008.
  
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  Reading Skills: Building Blocks for Success. U.A.E-Abu Dhabi , November 6,2008
  
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  Using Power Point in classroom.
  
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  Teacher of Grade 12 English- UAE-Abu Dhabi- February-May, 2007.
  
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  CEPA Professional Development Programme-U.A.E- Abu Dhabi January 2007- January 2008
  
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  First Aid Certificate
  

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  PhD Thesis-unpublished Edith Cowan University-Perth- Western Australia-2012 (The Perception and Practice of Silence in Australian and Jordanian Societies: A Socio-Pragmatic Study)
  

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  M.A Thesis unpublished – Yarmouk University – Jordan -
  

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  Al-Harahsheh, Ahmad M.A. (2012).Silence and Politeness in Jordanian Society. Arab World English Journal. 3 (3).246-269.
  
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  Al-Harahsheh, Ahmad M.A. (2013). A Study of Pragmatic Functions of Silence in Colloquial Jordanian Arabic. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics.39(1).
  
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  Al-Harahsheh, Ahmad M.A. (Oct.2012). Self-initiated Repair Structures in Jordanian Arabic. International Journal of Business, Humanities and Social Sciences,Vol.1, No.1.
  
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  Silence with Agreeing and Disagreeing Responses in Australian Society: a Socio-pragmatic Study.( Sent for publication)
  

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  The Roles of Sociolinguistic Functions of Silence in Jordanian Society (sent for publication)
  

4-The 5^th Free International Linguistic Conference in the University of Sydney- Camperdown campus ,8-10 of October,2011.( Silence with Agreeing and Disagreeing Responses in Australian Society: a Socio-pragmatic Study).

Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, Translation (Religious Translation; Media Translation; Political Discourse), Language planning, language change, code switching, silence in conversation, ESL.

-Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.

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  A/Prof Jill Durey- Edith Cowan University- School of Communication and Arts- Perth- Western Australia.
  

Faculty of Education and Arts

Tel.: +61 8 9370 6308

E-mail: j.durey@ecu.edu.au

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  A/Prof. Graham Mckay- Edith Cowan University- School of Communication and Arts- Perth- Western Australia.
  

Faculty of Education and Arts

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  Prof. Fawaz Abed AL-Haq.
  

E-mail Address: fawazm2008@yahoo.com

+962777438508

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  Prof. Abdullah AL-Shunnaq – Yarmouk University Dept. of English Language . Irbid – Jordan. P.O.Box 4990.
  

E-mail Address: shunnaq1@yu.edu.jo