I am an academic staff member in the Department of English/College of Arts at the University of Baghdad - Iraq. I finished my PhD at the University of Huddersfield, which was about investigating collocations based on applying corpus tools to Critical Stylistics. I am interested in exploring language in various texts using new techniques and learning more about language theories.
- Educational Qualifying course (University of Baghdad, 2008)
- Educational Arabic course (University of Baghdad, 2008)
- ESL Initiative Workshop Course (Baghdad, Sally Port Hotel, 2010)
- Educational Computer course (University of Baghdad, 2010)
- Corpus Linguistics: Methods, Analysis, Interpretation, Online Course, Lancaster University 2016.
- A translator in the Consultation Department/College of Arts/University of Baghdad, (2019).
I am an assistant professor and a researcher at the Department of English/College of Arts University of Baghdad. I am also working on improving teaching methods and research horizons that can be beneficial for teaching and research approaches
- Oregon-Iraq Guided Online English Studies/Online Training Courses (University of Oregon/American English Institution, 2009)
- Summer 2012 Professional Development Workshop: Teaching with Technology; Effective Teaching Practices; Classroom Assessment; and Special Topics in Literature, Linguistics, and Translation (Atlanta, GA, USA)
- Summer 2012 Workshop Presentation ‘Corpus Linguistics and Teaching Grammar’, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA, 2012.
- Summer 2012 Professional Development Workshop (Georgia State University and University of Baghdad Linkages Program
- Online course titled: Learning Online: Searching and Researching/University of Leeds 2016.
- Online course titled: Corpus Linguistics: Methods, Analysis, Interpretation/ Lancaster University 2017.
- Online course titled: Stylistics: Using Linguistics to Explore Texts and Meaning/ Lancaster University of Huddersfield 2021.
I am currently focusing on research areas associated with employing corpus techniques in different areas of linguistics, particularly critical stylistics, and the application of corpus methods in the study of learner language and collocations, in addition to analysis of news or online corpora.
Applied Linguistics
- English texts in Department of Archaeology, Grammar, Essay and Letter Writing, Research Methods, and Composition in Department of English - Undergraduate students.
- Methods of research and General Linguistics – Postgraduate students
I am currently supervising an MA student.
This study explores the language used in reporting political headlines conducting a rhetorical stylistic analysis. It is based on showing the effect of the rhetorical stylistic relations in news reporting. The aim is to investigate the structure adopted in reporting political news. It argues that the rhetorical stylistic devices are necessary and applicable to non-literary texts, i.e. political headlines to evaluate language use in the representation of non-literary texts. The analysis was carried out on data selected from the British broadsheet The Guardian and the American New York Times newspaper headlines. The data were examined and subjected to a contrastive analysis incorporating rhetorical and stylistic tools to discern h
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