ESL/EFL

• 1993-1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 Instructor of English as a Second Language (TA) at the university level for the Intensive English Institute (IEI), the non-university ESL arm of the Division of English as an International Language (DEIL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Taught English Structure (Grammar) in the Fall '93, Spring '96, and Fall '96 semesters and Reading in the Spring '97 semester. For the latter course, I designed a class Web page that contained assignments, links to on-line readings, etc. Taught Current Events for ESL students Fall '99, Spring 2000, and Fall 2002. In addition, I taught for a special one-month summer ESL program in 1994 for Japanese students from Kinki University, Osaka, involving field trips to local points of interest in the Illinois-Missouri area.

Intensive English Institute (IEI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1205 W. Nevada Street, Urbana IL (USA) 61801, tel. (217) 333-6598 Fax:. (217) 265-0158 

• 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 Instructor of English as a Second Language in the Intensive English Program at Parkland College, the community college of Champaign County, during Summer semesters 1996 and 1999. Subjects taught were Listening/Speaking and Grammar. Taught advanced English Grammar Fall '99 and Spring 2000.

Intensive English Program (IEP), Parkland College, 2400 West Bradley Avenue, Champaign, IL (USA) 61821-1899, tel. (217) 351-2547

• 1994 Instructor of Writing (TA) for the ESL Service Courses program in the Division of English as an International Language (DEIL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I taught academic English writing to high English proficiency international graduate students enrolled at the university for one semester, Fall 1994.  Writing genres including term papers, reports, and abstracts .

ESL Service Courses, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3040 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathew's Ave., Urbana, IL (USA) 61801, tel. (217) 244-5481

• 1991-93 Instructor of English as a Foreign Language for the Center for Adult and Continuing Education (CACE) at the American University in Cairo. In a US-AID-funded training program for Egyptian government employees, I taught English reading, grammar and listening for 4 semesters.

CACE, American University in Cairo, P.O. Box 2511, 11511 Cairo, Egypt, tel. (011) 20-2-3542964 (university operator)

• 1989-91 Instructor of English as a Foreign Language at the university level for the English Language Institute (IEI) at the American University in Cairo. I taught university-level English composition and writing for three semesters, English grammar and reading for one semester.

IEI, American University in Cairo, P.O. Box 2511, 11511 Cairo, Egypt, tel. (011) 20-2-3575085

• 1988-89 Instructor of English as a Foreign Language at the Royal Sa'udi Naval Forces' Technical Institute for Naval Studies. I taught elementary to intermediate English grammar and reading to naval cadets for a 12-month contract.

Royal Sa'udi Naval Forces - T.I.N.S., P.O. Box 3783, 31481 Dammam, Sa'udi Arabia, tel. (011) 966-3-8575079

• 1987-88 Instructor of English as a Second Language for adult continuing education students at the Burbank Adult School. I taught basic and intermediate ESL to multi-ethnic classes of adults for two years, January 1987 to July 1988.

Burbank Adult School, 3811 Allan Ave., Burbank, CA (USA) 91505,  tel. (818) 558-4611

• 1985-86 Instructor of English as a Second Language at the Cornerstone Tutoring Center, Pasadena, California, a private ESL institution catering to native speakers of Chinese from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China.  October 1985 to September 1986.  (School no longer in existence.)

Teacher training

Instructional Technology *

• 2001 Instructor,  TFL 210:  Curriculum Design and Technology in the Classroom Designed and taught  a course on the basics of  integrating curricular  design and instructional technology to teacher trainees in a 1-year TEFL certificate program at Parkland College during Spring 2001.

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certificate program ,  Parkland College, 2400 West Bradley Avenue, Champaign, IL (USA) 61821-1899, tel. (217) 351-2547.

• 2001 Instructor, TFL 114:  Teaching English through American Cultural Media Designed and taught  a course on cultural issues in the Foreign Language  classroom and how to incorporate US culture into the TEFL curriculum to teacher trainees in a 1-year TEFL certificate program at Parkland College during Fall 2001.

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certificate program , Parkland College, 2400 West Bradley Avenue, Champaign, IL (USA) 61821-1899, tel. (217) 351-2547.

Modern Standard Arabic

• 1983-84 Instructor, Modern Standard Arabic, at the (then) MRM/Language Research Center.  Taught a small class of US government employees to read and write standard newspaper Arabic from July to December 1983.  Secondly,  researched a guide to Arabic prepositions to have been published by the MRM publishing arm Dunwoody Press, but the manuscript, although complete was never published due to budget limitations on the project.  January to December 1984.

MRM/ McNeil Technologies, Language Research Center, 6525 Belcrest RoadSuite 550, Hyattsville, MD (USA) 20782, fax. (301) 864-8956
 
• 1984 Teaching assistant (TA), Modern Standard Arabic, Department of Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics, Georgetown University.  Taught standard Arabic (Fus'ha)grammar, reading and writing to second semester students of Arabic  five days a week during the Spring 1984 semester under the direction of Prof. Mouldi Hadidji.

Department of Arabic Language, Literature and Linguistics,  Georgetown University, P.O Box 571046, Washington, DC  (USA) 20057-1046, tel. (202) 687-5748 fax. (202) 687-2408