Mohammad Almoaily CV

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Mohammad Almoaily CV

Qualifications:

 Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Education (Teachers’ College in Riyadh, 2004).

 MA in English Language and Linguistics (Newcastle University, UK 2008).

 PhD in English Language and Linguistics (Newcastle University, UK 2013).

Work Experience

 Teaching Assistant at King Faisal University in Ahsa, Saudi Arabia (2005-2013).

 Assistant Professor at King Faisal University (2013-16).

 Assistant Professor at King Saud University since 2016

Committees and positions:

 Vice Chairman of the Quality Assurance Office (College of Arts, KFU. 2013).

 Chairman of the Graduates Office (College of Arts, KFU. 2014).

 Timetables Organiser (English Department at the College of Arts, KFU (2014-16)

 Member of the Standing Committee for Curricula and Study Plans at the Vice Rectorate for Academic Affairs at KFU (2015).

 Member of the recruitment committee, English Department at KFU, 2014.

 Head of the Study Plans Unit at the Vice Rectorate for Academic Affairs at KFU (2015).

 Head of the Alumni committee at the English Department, College of Arts at KSU, 2016- 2019.

 HR Committee member at the English Department, College of Arts at KSU, 2017-2019.

 Head of the Higher Education Committee at the English Department, College of Arts at KSU, 2017-2019.

 Member of the Committee for revising the BA plan at the English Department, College of Arts, KSU (2018).

 Member of the Comprehensive Exam committee (English Department, College of Arts at KSU, 2017-2019).

 A joint founder and Treasurer (2018-2019) of the Saudi Society of Linguistics (SSL).

 Supervisor of the Skills Improvement Unit (College of Arts, King Saud University, 2018-19).

 Member of the Graduate Studies Committee (College of Arts, KSU, since 2018).

 Head of the MA in Applied Linguistics Accreditation Executive Committee, College of Arts Vice Deanship for Development and Quality Assurance, 2019.

Courses I taught (2005-6), (2013-19):

 ESP

 Reading

 Listening

 Speaking

 Composition

 Essay

 Writing and Rhetoric

 Syntax and Morphology

 Psycholinguistics (Distant learning & conventional instruction).

 Sociolinguistics (BA, KFU and PhD, KSU).

 Research Methods and Design

 Language Variation (MA, KFU)

 Graduation Project (BA, KFU)

 Language Policy and Planning (MA, KSU).

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 Topics in Sociolinguistics (PhD, KSU).

 Topics in Psycholinguistics (PhD, KSU).

 Semantics

 Bilingualism

Conferences and Workshops:

 The Art of Convincing (Technical and Vocational Training Corporation, Saudi Arabia, 2004)

 Communication Skills (2009).

 DARN postgraduate poster conference Newcastle University, May 2009 (speaker).

 Fear (Newcastle, UK 2010).

 Workshop on Non-Indo-European lexifier non-West African substrate Pidgin and Creole Languages Newcastle University June 2010 (Co-organiser and speaker).

 Communication Skills (Newcastle, 2010)

 Features of Gulf Pidgin Arabic, King Faisal University, 2013 (speaker) https://www.spa.gov.sa/1163206

 Linguistics in the Gulf 3 Qatar University March 2011 (speaker).

 Completed a ten-day workshop on Quality Assurance in Academic Institutions, Illinois University, USA (2014).

 How to Translate a Book (KFU, 2016)

 Microteaching (King Saud University, 2017).

 Effective Academic Instruction (Three-day-workshop, King Saud University, 2017).

 Testing (Two-day-workshop, King Saud University, 2017).

 Course Design (Two-day-workshop, King Saud University, 2017).

 BlackBoard System (Online workshop presented by the Deanship of E-transactions and Communication, KSU, 2018).

 Techniques of Writing MCQs (Qiyas Center, 2018).

 APA 6^th ed. Citation (Online workshop presented by the Deanship of E-transactions and Communication, KSU, 2019).

Research interests:

 Pidgin and creole languages, Language variation and change, phonetics, morphosyntax, language policy and planning, language acquisition, linguistic politeness, and corpus linguistics.

Publications:

Almoaily, M. (2014) Language Variation in GPA. In Butchstaller, I., Holmberg, A., and Almoaily, M. (eds) Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters. Amsterdam: John

Benjamin's Publishing Co.

Butchstaller, I., Holmberg, A., and Almoaily, M. (2014). Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters. Amsterdam: John Benjamin's Publishing Co.

Almoaily, M. (2018). Greetings as a Politeness Strategy in EFL Distance Learning Students’ Official Emails. Linguistics and Literature Studies. 6(6), 259-266. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2018.060601 Almoaily, M. (2019). Language Policies and Power in EFL Out-of-Classroom Contexts: The Case of

English Language Departments in Saudi Arabian Higher Education Institutions. International Journal of English Linguistics. 9(2), 136-144. DOI:

10.5539/ijel.v9n2p136

Almoaily, M. & Alnasser, S. M. N. (2019). Current English Language Policies in Saudi Arabian Higher Education English Departments: A Study Beyond the Domain of the

Classroom. Journal of Arts, 31(2), 35-47.

Alkadi, H. & Almoaily, M. (2019). How do Saudi Females Contextualize Male Ancestors? A Corpus- based Investigation. Advances in Language and Literary Studies. 10(2), 11-18.

http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.10n.2p.11

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Forthcoming:

Almoaily, M. (2019). Linguistic Choices in the Saudi Entrepreneurial Cyberspace. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature Studies. 8(2), 181-187

Almoaily, M. (2020) Impact of Age and Gender on the Frequency of Interruption in Dyadic Interviews. Interaction Studies. 21

Other

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Refereed two translated books (English to Arabic), published by the Translation Centre, KSU (2019):

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Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition.

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.

Contact Information:

 Email: [email protected] , [email protected]

 Twitter: @m_almoaily

 Website: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/malmoaily/