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مدير الأبحاث اللغوية في mawdoo3.com

• الأردن - عمان
• أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ يوليو 2019

Arabic linguistic consultant (contract) في Amazon

• بولندا
• أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ يناير 2018

(Hired by Appen)
I am giving linguistic support for building Amazon TTS text-to-speech system in Arabic language.

Tasks include:
- Normalizing textual resources
- Creating natural language test cases for natural language processing modules
- Labeling texts with semantic, syntactic and morphological features
- Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines
- Producing/validating phonetic transcriptions
- QA of TTS voices and linguistic data
- Translating/proofreading different contents
- Proof-listening of recordings to assure sound-text/phonetic representation matching
- Supervising recording sessions.

Arabic language Checker / News Editor/ Journalist في JRTV

• الأردن - عمان
• أغسطس 2016 إلى يناير 2019

Checking news stories and bulletins for Arabic language to maintain high level of grammar and language usage.

Content Creator and Arabic Language Expert (freelance) في busuu

• المملكة المتحدة - لندن
• مارس 2017 إلى فبراير 2018

Create content for Arabic language course on busuu application including different types of language exercises.

Lecturer of Arabic as a Second Language في University of Jordan

• الأردن - عمان
• فبراير 2017 إلى مايو 2017

- Teaching Arabic as a second language.
- Assessing students.
- Create exams.

Arabic Language Expert في Lingvist Ltd

• المملكة المتحدة - لندن
• ديسمبر 2015 إلى نوفمبر 2016

Lingvist is an adaptive language-learning platform that uses new technology to teach languages online.
▪ Translating and editing Arabic-English module content.
▪ Finding and preparing educational content.
▪ Finding test users for Arabic-English module, organising feedback sessions; developing customer relations.
▪ Finding suitable corpora and setting criteria to analyse them in order to build the language modules.

Arabic Language and Literature teacher في International School of London in Surrey, UK

• المملكة المتحدة - لندن
• أغسطس 2015 إلى ديسمبر 2015

▪ Teaching Arabic literature to Grade 6-10 students at Middle Years Programme (MYP) affiliated with the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme.
▪ Teaching Arabic language to Grade 4-5 students at Primary Years Programme (PYP) affiliated with the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme.
▪ Teaching Arabic as a second language.
▪ Writing exams and assessing students.

Arabic Language Teacher and Course Coordinator في Babylon School of Languages, Salisbury. UK

• المملكة المتحدة - لندن
• مارس 2014 إلى أبريل 2015

▪ Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers
▪ Teaching Modern Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic and Gulf Arabic.
▪ Developing course materials
▪ Writing exams and assessing students.

Arabic Linguistic Consultant ( Contract) في Summitsoft Limited ( http://www.summitsoft.co.uk)

• المملكة المتحدة - لندن
• ديسمبر 2013 إلى مارس 2014

Providing linguistic consultation for the IT projects in the company to maintain high level of accuracy in all lingual aspects.

Arabic language Checker / News Editor/ Journalist في Jordan TV

• الأردن - عمان
• مارس 2006 إلى أكتوبر 2013

Checking news stories and bulletins for Arabic language to maintain high level of grammar and language usage.

Arabic Teacher for Non- Arabic Speakers في Qasid Institute

• الأردن - عمان
• يناير 2012 إلى ديسمبر 2012

▪ Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers at different levels
▪ Teaching literature and cultural courses to non-Arabic speakers
▪ Teaching Modern Standard Arabic, Classical (Quranic) Arabic and Levantine Arabic.
▪ Preparing teaching materials, writing exams and evaluating students.