Arabic and English Linguistics

RESUME FOR RAJA TEWFIK NASR

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Curriculum Vitae

NATIONALITY: Lebanese; Citizen of the U.S. MARITAL STATUS: Married to Bonnie S. Nasr CHILDREN:

Raif (boy) 1963

Randa (girl) 1964

ADDRESS: RESIDENCE:

P.O. Box 7032 3701 S. George Mason Dr. Unit 1105N

Alexandria, VA 22307 Falls Church, VA 22041

E-Mail: ****.****@*********.***

TELEPHONE: 703-***-****

EDUCATION:

Elementary Education: International College,

AUB-graduated June, 1941

Secondary Education: International College

AUB-graduated June, 1946

College Education:

AUB, Business and Economics, B.B.A.- graduated June, 1950

Graduate Studies:

American University of Beirut, Business and Economics, 1950-1952

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, M.A. (Linguistics), February, 1954

Ed.D. (Education, Linguistics, and American Literature), June, 1955

Post-Doctoral Study and Research, 1959-1960

WORK EXPERIENCE

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Teacher of English, International College, A.U.B.

Instructor in Linguistics, A.U.B., (part-time) Consultant, Point IV English Teaching Project in

Lebanon

Member and Chairman (5 years.) Curriculum

Committee, Beirut College for Women (B.C.W.) Director of Summer Sessions B.C.W. (Summers)

Director of the A.I.D./A.U.B. Regional Center for English Language Research and Teaching (on leave from B.C.W.)

English Language Consultant, Ministry of Education, Jordan

Acting Dean of the Faculty, B.C.W.

Vice-President for Academic Affairs, B.C.W Part-time Professor of Linguistics,

Lebanese University, Beirut

Professor of Education, B.C.W. (now Lebanese American University:LAU Chairman, Department of Education, L.A.U.

Chairman, Language and Education Division, L.A.U.

Chairman, Division of Applied Language Studies, L.A.U.

Longman English Language Consultant for the Arab

World

Visiting Professor, University of Reading

(Summers)

Language Consultant for 16 governments in the Middle East and East and North Africa

1964- Trained teachers of English and Arabic in 21

1983 countries (M.E., Africa, Europe, Asia, U.S.A.). Prepared long-range English language teaching plans for Bahrain, Jordan and Morocco.

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. 1997

1997-

Professor of Education and Linguistics and Chairman, Division of Applied Language Studies, L.A.U.

Language and Curriculum Specialist, Government of

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Adjunct, School of Education and Human Services, Marymount University, Arlington, VA

Associate Professor of Education, Marymount

University

2016 Professor of Education, Marymount University

CITATIONS

Junior Chamber of Commerce, Ann Arbor, Michigan for outstanding contributions to the community (as a student)- 1955

Several citations from the International Biographical Association, Cambridge, England

HONOR

Book Prize, Lebanese University, 1968

MEDALS

Medal of Education (First Class) Government of Jordan, 1970

First Five Hundred Silver Medal of Achievement, Dartmouth, England, 1984

Gold Medal of Congress, International Biographical Center,

Cambridge, England, 1985, GOLD BA R, 1989

Medal of Education (First Class) Government of Lebanon, 1987

FELLOWSHIPS

International Biographical Association, Dartmouth, England, F.I.B.A.

Royal Society of Arts

London, England, F.R.S.A. (Life Fellow)

EDITORIAL BOARDS AlMAV Official Publications Brussels, Belgium - Member Library of Arabic Linguistics London, England - Member MEMBERSHIPS

Association of University Teachers of English in the Arab World (Beirut, Lebanon) Vice-President

International Association for Research into and Diffusion of Audio-Visual and Structuro Global Methods (Ghent, Belgium) - Member, Board of Directors and Vice-President (1972-1996), and President (1996-2010)

International Society of Phonetic Sciences (Germany and Florida) - Honorary Vice President

International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (London, England) - Member

Linguistic Society of America (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) Life-member

OTHERS

Beirut Metropolitan Lions Club

Beirut, Lebanon - Past President

National Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Beirut, Lebanon - Member and Elder

Westminster Presbyterian Church

Alexandria, VA - Member

Near East School of Theology

Beirut, Lebanon- Member, Board of Directors (1980-1987)

Andrew Jackson Masonic Lodge (Life Member)

Alexandria, VA

LISTED IN

Dictionar y of International Biography

The First Five Hundred

International Who's Who in Community Service

The International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement

The International Who's Who of Intellectuals

Men of Achievement

2000 Men of Achievement List of Publications BOOKS

1 The Teaching of English to Arab Students, Longman, London, 1963

2 Thirty Short Stories, Longman, London, 1963

3-7 Active English (Primer and Books 1-4 with Workbooks), Longman, London, 1964

8-10 My First (Second, Third) ABC Book, Librairie Sayegh, Damascus, 1965

11 Colloquial Arabic, Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1966

1966 12 Ten Short Stories, Longman, London, 1966

13 Twenty Short Stories, Longman, London, 1966

14 English Dictation, Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1967

15 English Pronunciation Drills for Arab Students, Longman, London, 1967

16 The Structure of Arabic: from Sound to Sentence, Librairie du Liban, Beirut,

1967

21 An English-Colloquial Arabic Dictionary, Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1972

22 The Structural Patterns of English, (with Michael Paine), Longman, London,

1972

23 Teaching and Learning English, Longman, London, 1972

24 An Intermediate Colloquial Arabic Course (with Hadia Harb) Librairie du

Liban, Beirut, 1973

25-26 A New Secondary English Course (with Alan Gilchrist) Books 1 and 2, Longman, London, 1973

27 A New Secondary English Course (with Alan Gilchrist) Book 3, Longman, London, 1974

28 A New Secondary English Course (with Alan Gilchrist) Book 4, Longman, London, 1975

29 Patchwork: Stories Around the World for Students of English, Longman, London, 1976

30 Learn to Read Arabic (with Tape), Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1978

31 The Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language: Linguistic Elements, Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1978

32 The Essentials of Linguistic Science, Longman, London, 1980

33 Foreign Language Teaching and Cultural Identity (Ed. with A. Odunuga, E. Rosseel, and C.Y. Silva), Institute De Idiomas Yazigi, Sao Paulo, 1982

34-38 Active English for Today (Primer and Books 1-4), Longman, London,

1983

39 The Teaching of Arabic to Adults in Europe (editor), AlMAV, Brussels,

1983

Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1985

41 Communicate in Colloquial Arabic, Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1986

42 A Toast to Your Life: It's Worth It, Essential Medical Information Systems, Oklahoma, 1992

43 Whole Education: A New Direction to Fill the Relevance Gap. University

Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1994

44 A First English Dictionary for ESL Students. University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1995

46-8 Ten/Twenty/Thirty International Short Stories for ESL Students. University Press of America, Lanham, MD 1995

49 Applied English Phonology: For ESL/EFL Teachers. University Press of

America, Lanham, MD 1997

50-51 English for Starters. (Book One and Workbook One), York Press, London 1998 (with Dylis Brown)

English for Starters. (Book Two and Workbook Two), York Press, London

1998 (with Dylis Brown)

52 Language and Literature Across Culture. (Ed. with Anne Quataert), AIMAV, Brussels 2004

53 Education as Communication: Adding Quality to Teaching, Linus

Publications, Inc., New York, N.Y. 2010

ARTICLES

1. "Velarization in Lebanese Arabic" Phonetica Vol. 3, No.4, Basel, Switzerland, 1959

2 "The Predictability of Stress in Lebanese Arabic" Phonetica Vol. 4, Nos. 2-

3, Basel, Switzerland, 1959

3. "Phonemic Length in Lebanese Arabic" Phonetica Vol. 5, Nos. 3-4, Basel, Switzerland, 1960

4 "Phonemic Velarization in Literary Arabic" Proceedings of the Ninth

International Congress of Linguists, Cambridge, MA 1962

5 "Arabic Vowels and Vocoids: Their Characteristics and Distribution" Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

6 "The Nature of Language Learning'' La Revue Pedagogique, Ministry of

Education, Beirut, November, 1964

7 "Teaching English Consonants and Vowels" La Revue Pedagogigue, Ministry of Education, Beirut, December, 1964

8 "Teaching English Grammar: An Introduction" La Revue Pedagogigue, Ministry of Education, Beirut, April, 1965

9 "Teaching English Grammar: Forms of Words" La Revue Pedagogigue, Ministry of Education, Beirut, April 1965

10. "Teaching English Grammar: Word Order" La Revue Pedagogigue, Ministry of Education, Beirut, June, 1965

11. "Modification Patterns" La Revue Pedagogique, Ministry of Education, Beirut, October, 1965

12 "The Mastery of Language Features: Pronunciation" La Revue

Pedagogigue, Ministry of Education, Beirut, November 1965

13 "The Mastery of Language Features: Pronunciation" La Revue

Pedagogique, Ministry of Education, Beirut, December, 1965

14 "The Lesson Plan: A Teacher's Greatest Tool" La Revue Pedagogigue, Ministry of Education, Beirut, March, 1966

15 "English Teaching in the Middle East: A Case of Diversity, A Need for Coordination" English Language Teaching, Vol. XXI, No. 3, Oxford University Press, 1967

16 "A Code for Teachers of English" TDFL Newsletter, American University

of Beirut, Beirut, March, 1968

17 "The Morpho-Phonemic Forms of THE in Lebanese Arabic" Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 10, No.6, June 1968

18 "The Role of the Oral Approach in the Teaching of English" La Revue

Pedagogique, Ministry of Education, Beirut, October, 1969

19 "The Teaching of Reading: Principles and Techniques" La Revue

Pedagogigue, Ministry of Education, Beirut, November, 1969

20 "Techniques in the Teaching of Writing Skills" La Revue Pedagogique, Ministry of Education, Beirut, December, 1969

21 "Grammar: Separate or Integrated?" La Revue Pedagogique, Ministry of

Education, Beirut, January, 1970

22 "The Teaching of English Dictation" La Revue Pedagogigue, Ministry of

Education, Beirut, February, 1970

23 "The Role of Memory Work in the Teaching of English as a Foreign

Language" La Revue Pedagogigue, Ministry of Education, Beirut, March,

1970

24 "The Teaching of English Penmanship to Arab Students" La Revue

Pedagogique, Ministry of Education, Beirut, April, 1970

25 "Some Aspects of the Teaching of English Pronunciation to Arab

Students" La Revue Pedagogique, Ministry of Education, Beirut, May-June,

1970

26 "The Phonetic Environment as the Determiner of the Allomorphic Forms of THE in Standard Arabic, Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Mouton, The Hague, 1972

27 "English Teaching in the Middle East and North Africa: a Case for Standardization" Studies in Honor of Albert H. Marckwardt, Edited by James E. Alatis, TESOL, U.S.A., 1972

28 "Training Criteria for Effective Language Teachers" Transactions of the

Fifth AlMAV Seminar, Brussels, Belgium, 1973

World Papers in Phonetics: Festschrift for Dr. Onishi's Kiju, The Phonetic

Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 1974

30 "Constructive and Destructive Interference in Applied Phonology" Eighth

International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Leeds, England, 1975

31 "Constructive and Destructive Interference in Applied Phonology II" The

. Third World Congress of Phoneticians, Tokyo, Japan, 1976

32 "Levels of Analysis for Applied Phonology" Twelfth International

Congress of Linguists, Vienna, Austria, 1977

33 "The Preparation of Teachers of Arabic as a Foreign Language" (in

Arabic) Arabic Language Institute, University of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1978

34 "Intensive Language Courses at the University Level: Problems and Suggested Solutions" Review of English Studies in the Arab World, (Journal of the Association of University Teachers of English in the Arab World, Beirut), 1980

35 "Thinking and Communicative Teaching in the ESL Classroom" ABLA Papers, No. 3, Vreemdetalenonderwiis de Universiteit, Edited by Jos Nivette, Brussels, 1980

36 "Foreign Language Teaching in the Arab World" Foreign Language Teaching and Cultural Identity, Edited by R.T. Nasr et al, Institute De Idiomas Yazigi, Sao Paulo, 1982

37 "The Teaching of Arabic Communicatively" The Teaching of Arabic to

Adults in Europe, Edited by R.T. Nasr, AIMAV, Brussels, 1983

38 "Semiotics and the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language" Degres, Vol. XXI, No. 38, Brussels, 1984

39. "A Semantically-Based Foreign Language Course" Linguistic Agency, University of Duisburg, Duisburg, Series C, No. 4, Autumn 1985

Several papers on language and communications for the annual International

Biographical Centre) Cambridge, England.

40 "Educational Technology and the Teacher of English" Studies in Honour

1987 of Rene Derolez, Edited by A.M. Simon-Vandenbergen, Seminarie voot

Engelse en Oud-Germaanse Taalkunde, R.U.G., Ghent, 1987

41 "The Possibilities and Limitations of Translation in Intercultural Communication,'' in Transfert des Cultures par le biais des traductions litteraires. Didier, Paris, 1999.

42 "Language Pragmatics in the ESL/EFL Classroom" in Language and

Literature Across Cultures. AIMAV, Brussels, 2004.

2015 43 “The Communication of Humor: A Socio-Linguistic Approach” in The

International Journal of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2, No.1.

44 “Adding Rigor to teaching and Learning” in the Journal of Education and

Social Policy, Vol.2, No. 2.

45 The Need for a New Mind-Set in Legal Proceedings Dealing With Student

Behavior” in The journal of Education and Social Policy, Vol. 2, No. 5.

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