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Name:Aziz M. Khalil, Ph.D.
Title:

Contact Address:

English Department,
Bethlehem University,
Rue des Freres, P.O.Box 9. Bethlehem,
West Bank (Palestine), via Israel.
Home:
P.O. Box 666
Bethlehem,
Palestine

 

PUBLICATIONS:
A. Textbooks
B. Research Project Reports
C. Papers
D.CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
E.TRANSLATION ACTIVITIES
F.TEACHER TRAINING COURSES
G.RESEARCH INTERESTS




A.Textbooks:

A Contractive Grammar of English and Arabic. 1996. Jerusalem: Al-Isra' Press.
Analysis of Errors Made by Palestinian EFL Learners. 1997. Bethlehem University.
B. Research Project Reports:
An Evaluation Study of PETRA Materials Used at the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Grades in the West Bank Government Schools. 1994. Bethlehem University. (Co-researcher: Dr. Jeanne Kattan)
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. (Co-researchers: Professor Y. Al-Mallah, Dr. J. Sfeir and Dr. J. Kattan).
C. Papers:
"Arabic Performative Verbs," to appear in Journal of Arabic Linguistics, 1997. (Co-author: Prof. Ernest McCarus)
"Arabic Proverbs as Reflections of Cultural, Social and Religious Values," 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.
D.CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS:
"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.
"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.
E.TRANSLATION ACTIVITIES:
Arabic/English translation of articles and documents; conference interpretation.
F.TEACHER TRAINING COURSES:
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.
G.RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Arabic-English Contrastive Linguistics; Error Analysis; Interlanguage Pragmatics; Translation; Language Learning Styles and Strategies and EFL Writing problems.