TOEIC Programme Coordinator
ENET'Com
Total years of experience :12 years, 0 Months
Over the last three years as the English Programme Coordinator at the National School of Electronics and Telecommunications (ENET'Com, Sfax), I have worked on phasing in the TOEIC training programme for our engineering students. I have also supervised the TOEIC Exams preparation and helped to organised testing sessions with the collaboration of the AMIDEAST organisation.
I had been the coordinator of the English programme at the Preparatory Institute for the Engineering Studies in Gafsa, teaching first and second year college students in preparation for the national competition for entry into the engineering schools!
I taught ESP for two-years professional licence students specialised in Automatics of Industrial Systems, Maintenance of Heavy Engines, and New and Renewable Energies.
I tried to make them familiar with the kind od English they are expected to need, to meet in their professional careers, and that employers would like to find them master it. Together with this, I tried to make them know how to build their especially professional CVs, how to write letters of applications and how to deal with employers in interview situations and how to make computer-based job search and hunting.
I was teaching at first and second levels of higher education (bac+2) and I was at the same time the teacher, the syllabus maker, the executor, the examiner and the assessor. Moreover, I was responsible for all the English lessons presented in the Institute as I was charged with programmes making.
My MA in English Theoretical and Applied was a two-year postgraduate programme of study. In the first year, we were taught many courses in linguistics (Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Syntax, Semantics, Literary Stylistics, ... etc). In the second year, we were required to write up a thesis about a topic of our choice under the guidance of one supervisor. My research topic was revolving around the investigation of how Arab adolescents get impacted by the physical and verbal violence in US subtitled movies aired on the mbc 2 TV channel. As such, it was a mixed quantitative/qualitative piece of writing in which I developed a Neurocognitive Model of cross-cultural physical and verbal violence acquisition.
This was the second phase of my undergraduate studies. As a major in Anglo-American Studies, I took extensive and in-depth courses in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Literature and History and Civilisation. As for Linguistics, I was recipient of courses in Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, Syntax & X-Bar Theory, Semantics, Stylistics, Educational Psychology, Morphology, phonology and Phonetics. Concerning Literature, we did fiction, theatre, poetry and Literary Survey. To start with the last, we started with the year 809 A.D. up to the 20th Century (Post-World War II). In fiction, we focussed on a plethora of texts from the UK and the USA from the 18th century onwards. We also took a course in Slave Narratives as a Specific Literature course as well as a special focus on Diaspora writings and postmodern novel. In theatre, we took Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear), Drama of the Absurd, the Angry Young Men streak of plays and US Black Drama. To end with poetry, we did metaphysical, romantic and contemporary poetry. To end with civilisation and History, we took course about WWII, the US Civil War and Reconstruction, The UK Labour Party, the Cold War, the American & British Political Systems, the Anglo-American Special Relationship, ...etc.
This was the first step in my undergraduate studies. As a higher education training, it was geared toward familiarising the students with the English language via the activation of the four skills. Therefore, I took courses in Grammar, Composition, Listening, Reading, Literature, Civilisation, History and Translation.
I majored in Letters and Fine Arts from the Habib Mâazoun High School in Sfax. I succeeded in the National Baccalaureate Exam with an average of 12.8/20 (Summa Cum Laude in the Letters branch). I was taking three languages (Arabic, French and English), History, Geography, Philosophy, and two options: Maths and Physics.