English and Education Lecturer
Lebanese International University
Total years of experience :14 years, 8 Months
• Assess learner needs, and plan and teach lessons which take account of learners’ backgrounds, learning preferences and current needs.
• Demonstrate language knowledge and awareness and appropriate teaching strategies.
• Demonstrate knowledge about language skills and how they may be acquired.
• Plan and prepare lessons designed to develop the learners’ overall language competence.
• Demonstrate an appropriate range of teaching skills at this level and show professional awareness and responsibility.
• Develop students’ critical thinking and academic writing competencies.
Coordinator of Freshman Courses:
• Decide on the most appropriate teaching methods to suit the particular needs of the class.
• Become involved in decisions regarding teaching methods, curriculum design, personnel and textbooks.
• Participate in education conferences and workshops.
• Teach Beginners-Advanced classes (children, teenagers and adults), Conversation, TOEFL, SAT, IELTS and EEE classes
• Teach classes and assess students' progress and performance.
• Plan and prepare lessons, grade papers and prepare report cards.
• Provide constructive feedback and guidance to students experiencing educational or personal challenges.
• Maintain order and discipline in the classroom.
• Communicate with parents, teachers and other professionals, both formally and informally.
• Supervise the work of other employees, such as teaching assistants.
• Participate in education conferences and workshops.
• Teaching Linguistics, Writing and Ethnography courses
• Develop students’ writing techniques and rhetorical strategies.
• Design lessons that strengthen students’ writing abilities to compose college-level writing assignments.
• Work individually with students on the challenges they face when writing academic texts.
• Develop students’ skills and knowledge on conducting ethnographic research.
• Core Curriculum Assessor (Spring 2020)
• Student organizer at the 10th Humor Research Conference 2020 in Commerce, Texas
• Student volunteer at the 2019 Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) in Austin, Texas
• Member of committee to set budget for events for the department of Literature and Languages (2019-2020)
• Applied Linguistics lab manager (Fall 2018 - Fall 2020)
• Eye Tracking lab manager (Spring 2018 - Fall 2020)
• First Year Writing Program Celebration of Student Writing Assessor (Spring 2018)
• Student volunteer at the 2018 Humor Research Conference hosted by the Applied Linguistics Lab
• Student volunteer at the College of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts Professional Development Day (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2018)
• Global Awareness Assessment Committee (2016 - 2017)
• President of German Club (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
- Teach Upper-Advanced Arabic Conversation Class
- Assist in Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Arabic courses
- Teach Upper-Advanced Arabic Conversation Class
- Organize Arabic conversation tables and Arabic events
- Tutor students in the Arabic language courses.
- Graduate Courses:
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: ML521 - Principles and Practice in Second Language Teaching and Learning
• Acquire theoretical and practical background to evaluate and judge language teaching practices, for example: methods, learner variables, textbooks, tests, and so on.
• Plan and prepare lessons.
• Discuss current pedagogical literature.
Department of Psychology: PSY735 - Developmental Psychopathology
• Acquire in-depth knowledge about child and adolescent mental health disorders.
• Understand the varied presentation of disorders across time, causal and risk factors and protective factors.
• Discuss dynamic relationships between different factors that contribute to the development of psychopathology.
Department of Education: EDUC 582 - Reading in the Content Areas
• Focus on theory and research related to reader-text interactions and strategies for enhancing text comprehension.
• Develop instruction that is responsive to learner needs in a case study approach.
• Report on field work experience in an American high school.
Department of Sociology: SOC 315 - Crimes in Urban America
• Examine crime in pre-industrial, industrial and modern societies.
• Discuss criminal justice, social welfare as well as the police, courts and prisons.
English Instructor (General Academic Writing & Intensive Courses)
• Guide students to write texts by offering models, samples, useful language items, advice, etc.
• Help students to improve their mastery of grammar in writing.
• Guide students to become effective writers.
• Develop communicative skills for the expression of basic needs and for basic interactive skills.
• Develop the ability to work with others in a cooperative learning framework.
• Develop critical understanding of spoken discourse.
• Develop ability to produce different forms of writing.
• Examiner and Administrator
• Invigilation.
• Perform administration tasks
• Examine candidates in the speaking session.
Certification TESOL: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Fall 2019 CELTA: Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults September 2010 Publications Bouchard, J., Di Ferrante, L., Pickering, L., El Khatib, N. (2020). AAC users’ discourse in the workplace. In E. Friginal & J. Hardy (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of corpus approaches to discourse analysis (pp. 22-38). Routledge. Simarro Vázquez, M., El Khatib, N., Hamrick, P., & Attardo, S. (2020). On the order of processing of humorous tweets with visual and verbal elements. Internet Pragmatics. Presentations El Khatib, N., & Pickering, L. (November, 2020). AAC Users’ Discourse in the Workplace. Paper presented at DFW Metroplex Linguistics 2020 Conference, Texas. El Khatib, N., Attardo, S., Simarro, M., & Hamrick, P. (November, 2019). Understanding the Processing of Funny Tweets through Eye Tracking and Pupillometry. Poster presented at DFW Metroplex Linguistics 2019 Conference, Denton, Texas. Simarro, M., El Khatib, N., & Attardo, S. (October, 2019). Different Strategies to Process Multimodal Humorous Texts. Paper presented at International Conference on Verbal Humor, Alicante, Spain. Simarro, M., El Khatib, N., & Attardo, S. (June, 2019). Processing Order of Captions and Images in Humorous Texts. Paper presented at 2019 Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS), Austin, Texas. El Khatib, N., & Furlich, S. (November, 2018). Understanding Arabic Instructor Verbal Immediacy Behaviors and Student Motivation to Learn in U.S. Foreign Language Classrooms. Paper presented at 4th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA), Albany, New York. Editing Experience Co-Editor, Writing Inquiry 2nd Edition, Fountainhead Press, 2019 Assistant Editor, Best of the Journals in Rhetoric & Composition 2019, Parlor Press, 2020