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Professional Experience

I know that “learning is not a mirror of teaching”. The current Linguistics course is very significant to be given to the students. During my teaching, as a teacher, I tried and did my best to develop and improve the teaching and learning processes. In the last years, I used to follow a traditional routine of teaching process: methods and activities. However, today my teaching methodologies are totally different. Accordingly, there should be a process of creating and modeling new activities and strategies through various types of skills according to both the teaching and learning needs. In order to fulfill a professional development, new modern theories and strategies for teaching and learning (principles and knowledge) should be undertaken. Now, as a teacher I can use how to set up a program for my students: developing a syllabus, choosing and adapting materials, doing diagnostic tests (especially quizzes) and daily lesson plans, etc. Also, I can manage a course, that is, understanding about most of learning strategies, I will be able to use how to deal with text evaluation, student behavior, learning styles, assessments and grading. Not familiar with oral activities before, I can now use almost all classroom activities such as communication activities, pronunciation, jazz chants, games, drills, media, and the like. As learners, the students got benefits from all the above mentioned aspects: setting up and managing a program, dealing well with most activities and skills. Topics are presented by the teacher, and they are explained, assigned and completed by students both during lesson periods and outside of class. The students are usually divided into groups of four-five people during every lesson. That is, group discussions are achieved. Doing classroom activities, in groups, help the students cooperate in their learning. Quizzes are given according to the accomplishment of topics within lessons. A quiz is done for each topic. Also, the students’ work is evaluated according to monthly and final exams. As a result of having this course (i.e. linguistics course), the students will be able to learn how to define linguistics with its different concepts and topics. The current coursebook covers many linguistic topics: an introduction to language, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and language acquisition. In the very beginning, definitions of language, origins of language, differences between human language and animal communication, and functions of language are all dealt with. In phonetics and phonology, speech sounds are described, giving charts of consonants and vowels. Also, there will be a good chance for having a good knowledge about phonemes, allophones, minimal pairs and sets, the syllable, clusters, stress, weak forms, co-articulation effects such as assimilation, linking and elision. Within morphology, definitions of words, morphemes, allomorphs, and word formation processes are studied. In syntax, light is shed on parts of speech, classification of words, and constituent analysis. Within semantics, the students will know about meaning, its types and theories, lexical fields, sense relations, idioms and collocations. In pragmatics, topics like context, its types, invisible vs. visible meaning, deixis, reference, presuppositions, speech acts, rules of conversation are tackled. According to sociolinguistics, speech community, social dialects, social markers, style (formal and informal), standard vs. vernacular languages, gendered language are taken into consideration. Within discourse analysis, concepts including cohesion, coherence, and conversation analysis are studied. In language acquisition, important approaches to language acquisition as well as the stages of language acquisition in children are dealt with. Finally, it is very significant to say that there is no doubt that I will move from being a what-to-teach teacher to a how-to-teach one.

Membership

2013

Sworn Translator

2013-09-25,current

Kurdistan Translators Union No. 20/2013

Academic Title

2014

Asst. Professor

2014-06-22
2010

Lecturer

2010-03-27
2006

Asst. Lecturer

2006-09-12

Evaluation

2018

No. 727

2017-04-03

No. 744

2017-05-02

No. 748

2018-01-11

No. 74

2018-03-08

No. 77

2018-03-29

No. 103

2018-05-30

No. 137

2018-08-27

2017

No. 727

2017-04-03

No. 744

2017-05-02

No. 748

2018-01-11

No. 74

2018-03-08

No. 77

2018-03-29

No. 103

2018-05-30

No. 137

2018-08-27

Training Course

2009

Methods of Teaching Course

2009-11-02,2010-01-04

TEFL Teacher Training Course

2009-06-01,2009-07-28

Thesis

2018

An Analysis of the Use of Euphemisms in English and Kurdish Texts. (PhD)

2018-12-01
2006

Ergativity in Northern Kurmanji with Reference to English (MA)

2006-06-22

Published Journal Articles

2024

The Use of Illustrators by Bahdini Kurdish Teachers in EFL University Classrooms

2024-10

THE EFFECT OF GAMIFICATION ON STUDENTS' MOTIVATION TOWARD LEARNING ENGLISH

2024-09
2023

Investigating the use of fillers by kurdish efl university students in relation to speaking fluency

2023-09
2022

Impact of E-learning on th Education of Students of University of Zakho during Covid-19

2022-01
2020

Learning Vocabularies through Semantic Mapping Strategy

2020-06

The Effect of Increasing Student Talking Time on University EFL Students’ Comprehension of Pragmatic Concepts

2020-06

An Analysis of Teachers' Proxemics in Bahdini EFL University Classrooms

2020-05

The Effect of Teacher Talk Time (TTT) Strategy on the Awareness of Semantic Topics

2020-03
2019

An Analysis of the Pronouncing of English Monophthongs by Kurdish EFL University Students (Northern Kurmanji Speakers)

2019-12

The Use of Presuppositions in the Short Story of Zilkê Şixatê (Matchstick)

2019-12

Maximized and Minimized Off-Record Politeness Strategies in Hacani’s Short Stories

2019-12
2018

A Content Analysis of Euphemistic Strategies in Evro Daily Newspaper

2018-06

A Content Analysis of Euphemistic Functions in Evro Bahdini Daily Newspaper

2018-03
2014

The Effect of Dissect Strategy on First Year EFL University Students’ Word Awareness

2014-05

The Use of Phonological Awareness Skills for Teaching Phonetics and Phonology with University Students

2014-03
2013

The Use of Euphemisms and Dysphemisms in Bahdini Dialect

2013-10
2012

The Use of Abbreviations in Northern Kurmanji

2012-06
2011

A Socio-linguistic Study of Mobile SMS Messages: College of Education as a Sample

2011-06
2009

Informal Style in Northern Kurmanji

2009-02