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CAMPUS ADDRESS     PERMANENT ADDRESS

English Department   P.O. Box 666

Bethlehem University   Bethlehem,

P.O. Box 9   Palestine

Bethlehem, Palestine

e-mail: akhalil@bethlehem.edu

EDUCATION

    1984       Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, University of Illinois,

          Urbana-Champaign, USA

    1984       M.A. in Applied Linguistics, University of Illinois,

          Urbana-Champaign, USA

1976       M.A. in Linguistics, University of Reading,

  United Kingdom

    1970       B.A in English Language and Literature,

            University of Alexandria, Egypt

WORK EXPERIENCE

1989 - Present     Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics

        Bethlehem University, English Department

  1984 - 1989     Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics

          Bethlehem University, English Department

1979 - 1981     Instructor of Linguistics/Applied Linguistics

        Bethlehem University, English Department

1976 - 1979     Instructor of English

        Kuwait Oil Company Training Center, Kuwait

1970 - 1975     Instructor of English, Intermediate Stage, Kuwait

ADMINISTRATIVE    EXPERIENCE

2003-     Chair of the English Department

Curriculum Vitae

AZIZ M. KHALIL, Ph.D.

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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• ¨ International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, (IATEFL), UK

• ¨ Palestinian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (PATEFL, Associate of IATEFL - UK), (President 1994 – 1998)

• ¨ The Arabic Linguistic Society, University of Utah, U.S.A.

• ¨ Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities (APETAU) (Vice President 1997-2000).

AWARDS & GRANTS

•  Bethlehem University

          Internal Research Grant

(2005)

Fund for Support of Palestinian Universities

(2005-2006)

•  Bethlehem University

Internal Research Grant

(2004-2005)

2002       Fulbright Senior Scholar Award

        The Pennsylvania State University

        (2002-2003)

•  Bethlehem University

        Internal Research Grant

          (2001-2002)

1997       Bethlehem University

        Internal Research Grant

        (1997-1998)

1995       Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

        Study Visit Universitat Heidelberg, Germany

        (June 16 - July 16, 1995)

1993       Amideast Applied Research Grant

(April 1993 - July 1994)

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1990       Fulbright Senior Scholar Award

The University   of Michigan, Ann Arbor

(1990-1991, Sabbatical Year)

1990       British Council Grant

        Visit to the IELE, Lancaster University

        (March 18 - 25, 1990)

  1989       British Council Specialist Course 935:

Manchester "Communicative language teaching in perspective 2: teacher education."

        (April 2 - 14, 1989)

1987       British Council Specialist Course 667:

  Manchester "Communicative language teaching in perspective."

        (March 29 - April 11, 1987)

1981       Amideast Ph.D. Scholarship,

        University of Illinois,

        Urbana-Champaign

        (1981-1984)

    CONFERENCES

•  Conference of American Association of Applied Linguists

  Washington D.C.

  (March 21-25, 2003)

  Northeast Conference on the Teaching of

  Foreign Languages

        Washington D.C.

          (April 10-13, 2003)

2001       Al-Isra University Second Annual Symposium

“Comparing English with Arabic: Past Developments

and Future Perspective”

        Amman, Jordan

        (April 25, 2001)

2000   APETAU First International Conference,

  The University of Jordan,

  (August 28-30, 3000)

1999   The Fifth Annual Symposium of PATEFL, Al-Quds University

  (April 23, 1999)

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1999   The First International Conference on Contrastive Rhetoric: English and Arabic.

  The American University in Cairo, Egypt

  (February 19-20, 1999)

1998       The Fourth Annual Symposium of PATEFL

        Hebron University

        (April 24, 1998)

1998       The Fourteenth International Conference on Language,

        Linguistics, Literature and Translation.

        Yarmouk University, Jordan

        (April 28-30, 1998)

1997       The First International Conference on Arabic/English

        Contrastive and Comparative Studies.

        The University of Jordan.

        (August 23-27, 1997)

1997       The Third Annual Symposium of PATEFL.

        Bethlehem University

        (April 11th, 1997)

  1996   The Second International Conference on Palestinian Studies: “Palestinian Education: Historical, Contemporary Status and a Vision for the Future.”

        Birzeit University

        (December 13-15, 1996)

        The Second Annual Symposium of IATEFL PALESTINE,

      Bir Zeit University

      (April 19, 1996)

      The 30th IATEFL International Conference,

      University of Keele, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

        (April 9-12, 1996)

1995       The 29th IATEFL International Conference,

    University of York, UK

        (April 9-12, 1995)

        The First Annual Symposium of IATEFL PALESTINE

        Bethlehem University,

        (March 3, 1995)

  1994       The 28th IATEFL International Conference,

          Brighton, UK

        (April 6 - 9, 1994)

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  1993       English Department Symposium,

          An-Najah University, Nablus

        (December 2, 1993)

        The 27th IATEFL International Conference,

        University College of Swansea, Wales

        (April 4 - 7, 1993)

1992       The 12th Symposium on English Language

        Teaching in Egypt, Ain Shams University,

        Cairo, Egypt

        (February 25 - 27, 1992)

1991       The 17th Annual Third World Conference,

        Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.

        (April 4-6, 1991)

      The 5th Annual Symposium of the Arabic

      Lingyustic Society,

      The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A

      (March 1-2, 1991)

1990       The 24th IATEFL International Conference,

        Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

        (March 27 - 30, 1990)

1989       The 23rd IATEFL International Conference,

        University of Warwick, England

        (March 31 - April 3, 1989)

        The 20th Annual Conference on African Linguistics,

        University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.

        (April 19 - 22, 1989)

1987       The 1st Symposium on ELT at the West Bank

        and Gaza Universities

        Hebron University, Hebron

        (November 20, 1987)

1986       The 5th Annual Linguistics Conference

        Yarmouk University, Jordan

        (April 1 - 3, 1986)

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1985     The 4th Annual Linguistics Conference

      Yarmouk University, Jordan

      (April 1 - 3, 1985)

1985     The Philosophy of Higher Education and

      Arabization Symposium

      The Council for Higher Education, Jerusalem

      (November 22, 1985)

     PUBLICATIONS :

I. Books :

• ¨ A Contrastive Grammar of English and Arabic . 1999. Amman : The Jordan Book Center.

• ¨ Analysis of Errors Made by Arab EFL Learners . 2000. Bethlehem University.

II. Research Project Reports:

• ¨ An Investigation into Bethlehem University Faculty Assessment Beliefs and Practices , Bethlehem University Internal Research Grant, November 2005.

• ¨ Evaluation of the Senior Seminar Course , (Rima Dabdoub & Aziz Khalil), Bethlehem University Internal Research Grant, March 2005.

• ¨ Assessment of the Utility and Effectiveness of Student Evaluations of Faculty at Bethlehem University . 2002. Bethlehem University Internal Research Grant (2001-2002)

• ¨ Assessment of Palestinian EFL Learners' Use of Language Learning Strategies. 1998. Bethlehem University Internal Research Grant (1997-1998).

• ¨ An Evaluation Study of PETRA Materials Used at the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Grades in the West Bank Government Schools . 1994. Bethlehem University. (Citation: Khalil, Aziz & Jeanne Kattan) Funded by Amideast Applied Research Grant (1993-1994)

• ¨ Assessment of Achievement in Arabic of Fourth and Sixth Grade Students in the Central Region of the West Bank (Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem), 1991, Jerusalem: Tamer Institute for Community Education. (Citation: Kattan, Jeanne, Aziz Khalil, Yaser Al-Mallah & Jacqueline Sfeir).

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III. Papers:

• ¨ “Assessment of Language Learning Strategies Used by Palestinian EFL Learners”, Foreign Language Annals , Spring 2005

• ¨ “Assessment of Language Learning Strategies Used by US Learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language”, Al-Arabiyyah , Spring 2005

• ¨ “Syntactic Strategies for Marking Information Structure in English and Arabic,” International Journal of Arabic-English Studies , Vol. 1, 2000

• ¨ “Arabic Performative Verbs,” ZAL (Journal of Arabic Linguistics ), Vol. 36 1999; (Citation: Khalil, Aziz & Ernest McCarus).

• ¨ “The Role of Cross-Linguistic Influence in Arab EFL Students' English Compositions,” INTERFACE: Journal of Applied Linguistica , Vol. 13.2, June 1999.

• ¨ "Proverbs as Linguistic Reflections of Social, Religious and Cultural Values: the Case of Arabic,” Proceedings of the 17th Annual Third World Conference, Detroit, 1991.

• ¨ "Arabic Translations of English Passive Sentences: Problems and Acceptability Judgements," Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics , Vol. 27, 1991.

• ¨ "The Passive Voice in English and Classical Arabic: Formation, Type and Function," Bethlehem University Journal , Vol. 7 and 8, August 1989.

• ¨ "A Study of Cohesion and Coherence in Arab EFL College Students' Writing," System , Vol. 17,3, 1989.

• ¨ "A Study of the Relationship between Attitudes and Orientations of Arab Freshmen Students and their Proficiency in English", Bethlehem University Journal , Vol. 6, August 1987. (Co-Author: Shukri Sanbar).

• ¨ "Interlingual and Intralingual Errors in Arab Freshman English Compositions", Bethlehem University Journal , Vol. 4, August 1985.

• ¨ "Communicative Error Evaluation: Native Speakers' Evaluations and Interpretations of Written Errors of Arab EFL Learners", TESOL Quarterly , Vol. 19, No. 2, June 1985.

Curriculum Vitae

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CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS :

• ¨ “Contrastive Rhetoric, Contrastive and IL Pragmatics: Implications for and Applications in TEFL”, Al-Isra University Second Annual Symposium, Amman Jordan, April 25, 2001.

• ¨ “Evaluative Feedback on the English Curriculum at Bethlehem University”, APETAU First International Conference, The University of Jordan,

  August 28-30, 2000. (Co-researcher: Jeanne Kattan).

• ¨ “A Study of Compliments from a Cross-Cultural Perspective: Arabic vs. English”, APETAU First International Conference, The University of Jordan, August 28 – 30, 2000.

• ¨ “ELT Materials Evaluation: Principles and Procedures”, Workshop, Fifth Annual Symposium of PATEFL, Al-Quds University, April 23, 1999.

• ¨ “Analysis of Superstructure of Arabic and English Narratives Written by Palestinian EFL Students”, The First International Conference on Contrastive Rhetoric: English and Arabic”. The American University in Cairo,

  February 19-20, 1999.

• ¨ “You and Your Action Research Project”, Workshop, Fourth Annual Symposium of PATEFL, Hebron University, April 24, 1998.

• ¨ “Arab EFL Learners' Production of Expressions of Gratitude”, Fourteenth International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation”, Yarmouk University, 28-30 April, 1998.

• ¨ “Strategies for Encoding Information Structure in English and Arabic”, The First International Conference on English/Arabic Contrastive and Comparative Studies, The University of Jordan. 23-27 August, 1997.

• ¨ “Action Research for EFL Teachers”, Workshop at The Third Annual Symposium of PATEFL, Bethlehem University, April 11th, 1997.

• ¨ “Evaluation of School English Curriculum: Do We Need to Design a Palestinian PETRA?”, The Second International Conference for Palestinian Studies, Bir Zeit University, December 13-15, 1996. (Co-presenter: Jeanne Kattan)

• ¨ “To Supervise or not to Supervise: that is (NOT) the Question”, the Second Annual Symposium of IATEFL PALESTINE, Bir Zeit University, 19 April, 1996.

• ¨ “Arab EFL Students' Production of Requests”, the 30th IATEFL International Conference, University of Keele, UK, April 9-12, 1996.

• ¨ “Arab EFL Students' Production of Apologies”, the 29th IATEFL International Conference, University of York, UK, April 6-9, 1995.

• ¨ “Survey and Evaluation of Teacher Questioning Skills and Strategies”, the Second EFL Skills Conference, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, December 2-5, 1995.

• ¨ "Teacher Feedback on EFL Student Written Work", the 28th IATEFL International Conference, Brighton, UK, April 6 - 9, 1994.

• ¨ “Status of Teaching Writing at School: Problems and Remedies”, the First EFL Skills Conference, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, December13-14, 1994.

• ¨ "Evaluative Feedback on the English Programme at Bethlehem University", An-Najah National University Symposium on ELT at the West Bank Universities, Nablus, December 2nd, 1993. (Co-researcher: Dr. Jeanne Kattan).

• ¨ "Students' Attitudes Towards Corrective Feedback", the 27th IATEFL International Conference, University College of Swansea, Wales, April 4 - 7, 1993.

• ¨ “Proverbs as Linguistic Reflections of Social, Religious and Cultural Values: The Case of Arabic”, The 17th Annual Third World Conference, Detroit, Michigan, April 4-6, 1991.

• ¨ "Arabic Performative Verbs", the 5th Annual Symposium of the Arabic Linguistic Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 1 - 2, 1991. (Co-researcher: Professor Ernest McCarus)

• ¨ "Testing the role of transfer from L1 (Arabic) into L2 (English): Implications for EFL writing instruction", the 24th IATEFL International Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, March 27 - 30, 1990.

• ¨ "Evaluations Method and Teacher Variable Effects on Composition Grades", the 23rd IATEFL International Conference, University of Warwick (England), March 31 - April 3, 1989.

Curriculum Vitae

AZIZ M. KHALIL, Ph.D.

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TRANSLATION ACTIVITIES:

(1) Written Translation:

• ¨ I translated a large number of English and Arabic documents, proposals, research papers, reports that dealt with political, educational, legal, social and economic topics.

• ¨ I also jointly translated into English the Proceedings of the Jerusalem International Conference on Palestinian Folklore, Jerusalem, August 1987. The translated papers appeared in a volume published by the Research Centre for Arab Heritage (1994). The title is: Folklore Heritage of Palestine.

(2) Simultaneous Interpretation :

• ¨ First Conference on “Ageing With Dignity”, organized by Al-Ata' Services to the Elderly, the Tantur Institute, Jerusalem, 1 - 3 October, 1991.

• ¨ Conference on “Palestinian Broadcasting: Promises and Challenges”, sponsored by Jerusalem Film Institute and Internews, in association with The Palestinian Broadcasting Authority, Jerusalem, 5 - 8 January, 1994.

• ¨ Conference on “Distance Education and the Role of Information and Communication Technology”, organized by Al-Quds Open University, Amman (Jordan), 10 - 12 April, 1999.

• ¨ Symposium on the Role of the Media in Promoting Human Rights, the Arabic Department, Bethlehem University, 26 October, 1999.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• ¨ Member of Bethlehem University Standing Curriculum Committee.

• ¨ Chair of National Team working on designing the First Palestinian English Curriculum for the Government Schools. (May-August, 1998)

• ¨ Member of Bethlehem University Five-year Strategic Planning Task   Group.

• ¨ Dr. Jeanne Kattan and I designed the English component of Bethlehem University Entrance Examination for the years 1988, 1992, 1997.

RESEARCH PROJECTS IN PROGRESS:

• ¨ The Linguistic Atlas of the Palestinian Dialects

• ¨ Address Forms in the Palestinian Dialects.

• ¨ Research project: “An Investigation into the Assessment Practices of Palestinian Teachers of English as a Foreign Language”, funded by the Fund for Support of Palestinian Universities, (2005-2006).

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TEACHER TRAINING COURSES:

•  A 15-hour professional development workshop on Clinical Supervision, Classroom Observation and ELT. Materials Evaluation, for Supervisors of English in the West Bank, Ministry of Education, Bethlehem, September 25-28, 2003.

• ¨ A 50-hour Teacher Training Course on TEFL Methodology, Centre for Training, Jerusalem, January-April, 1997, taught jointly with Dr. Jeanne Kattan.

• ¨ A 45-hour Teacher Training Course on Testing and Action Research in the Classroom and ELT Materials Evaluation, sponsored by the Centre for Community Development and Continuing Education and the British Council, (Bethlehem University) taught jointly with Dr. Jeanne Kattan, between October and December 1996.

• ¨ A 40-hour Teacher Training Course on the teaching of Reading and Writing, Using Petra materials, for teachers of 8th, 9th and 10th Grades in Bethlehem area, sponsored by the Centre for Community Development and Continuing Education (Bethlehem University), taught jointly with Dr. Jeanne Kattan, between January and May, 1996

• ¨ A 40-hour Teacher Training Course on the teaching of Listening and Speaking Using PETRA materials, for teachers of 8th, 9th and 10th Grades in Bethlehem area, sponsored by the Centre for Community Development and Continuing Education (Bethlehem University), taught jointly with Dr. Jeanne Kattan, between January and May 1995.

• ¨ A 40-hour Teacher Training Course on English Language Teaching Objectives and Materials Evaluation and Production, for teachers of the Six Elementary Grades at Faith Schools, sponsored by Committee of the Society of Islamic Sciences and Culture, taught jointly with Dr. Jeanne Kattan, between October 1993 and February 1994.

• ¨ A 40-hour Teacher Training Course on Arabic Teaching Objectives and Test Design for 4th, 5th and 6th Elementary Grade Teachers, organized by Tamer Institute for Community Education, taught jointly with Dr. M. Abu-Katteh and Dr. Jeanne Kattan, between December 1991 and June 1992.

• ¨ A 40-hour Teacher Training Course on English Language Objectives and Materials Evaluation and Production, for teachers of the six Elementary Grades at the Lutheran Private Schools in the West Bank, sponsored by the Lutheran

Schools Administration, taught jointly with Dr. Jeanne Kattan, between December 1991 and May 1992.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:   

Arabic-English Contrastive Linguistics; Error Analysis; Interlanguage Pragmatics; Translation; Language Learning Styles and Strategies and EFL Writing problems; ELT Materials Evaluation.

COURSES TAUGHT:

• ¨ Error Analysis, Structure of English, Introduction to Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Advanced English Writing.
(English Department, Bethlehem University).   

• ¨ Arabic – English Contrastive Linguistics, Literary Translation (Minor in Translation, Arabic Department, Bethlehem University)

• ¨ Special Methods of Teaching English in the Secondary School, Microteaching, Classroom Observation, Practicum in the Secondary School (Post-graduate Teaching Diploma, Faculty of Education, Bethlehem University).

• ¨ English Language Teaching Methods I and II
(M.A. Programme in Teaching Methodology, Al-Quds University)

REFERENCES:

• ¨ Dr. Hazem Najjar, English Department, Bethlehem University, P.O. Box 9, Bethlehem, Palestine ( hnajjar@bethlehem.edu )

• ¨ Professor Sandra Savignon, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Penn State University, Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 305 Sparks Building, University Park, PA (16802-7365) ( SJSavignon@psu.edu )