Curriculum Vitae

Professor Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali, PhD

Department of English Language and Linguistics

JordanUniversity of science and Technology

Citizenship: Jordanian

Current Address: Department of Languages and Translation/ Tabuk University

Address (Jordan):Department of English Language and Linguistics,

JordanUniversity of Science and Technology,

P.O. Box 3030, Irbid22110

JORDAN

Phone No: Home: (00962-2-7104464); Mobile (00962797314912)

(00966-534497800)

E-mail:

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Education:

1996- 1999PhD; Discourse/Genre Analysis, Department of Linguistics & English Language, University of Durham, UNITED KINGDOM

1989- 1992MA; Linguistics & English Language, JordanUniversity, JORDAN

1973- 1976BA; English LanguageLiterature, JordanUniversity, JORDAN

Employment Experience

21/10/2014 until present professor of Linguistics Department of English language and Linguistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology University, Irbid, JORDAN.

1/9/2013-20/10/2014 Visiting Professor at Tabuk University/Department of Languages and Translation.

Consultant and Committee member/ Faculty of Scientific Research/ Saudi Arabia.

16/1/2011- 1/9/2013General Director of University Library,Jordan University of Science and Technology University, Irbid, JORDAN.As a Library Director, we have met theQUALITY MANAGEMENT System Requirement (ISO 9001: 2008). The Quality Management System in JUST Library has been approved byLloyd’s Quality Assurance, 25 September, 2012.

11/5/2010-Professor of Linguistics, Department of English language and Linguistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology University, Irbid, JORDAN.

1/9/2008-10/5/2010Associate Professor, English for Applied Studies, Jordan University of Science and Technology University, Irbid, JORDAN.

1/9/2007- 1/9/2008Head of the Department of English for Applied Studies, JordanUniversity of Science and TechnologyUniversity, Irbid, JORDAN.

17/9/2006- 1/9/2007Associate Professor (Sabbatical Leave), Department of English and Literature, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.

1999-2/5/2005Assistant Professor, Department of English for Applied Studies, Jordan University of Science and Technology University, Irbid, JORDAN.

1998-1999 Teaching Assistant, University of Durham, United Kingdom

1993- 1996 Part Time Lecturer, English Language Unit, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, JORDAN

1990-1996Head of Periodicals/Main Library, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, JORDAN

1987- 1990Administrative Librarian/ Main Library,Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, JORDAN

1976-1986Teacher of English Language: Ministry of Education, KUWAIT

Academic Awards& Honors

1996PhD Scholarship, 1996-1999 from the Faculty of Science and Arts/ Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, JORDAN to study Linguistics at Durham University, UNITED KINGDOM

1998Deanship Award, Faculty of Arts, Durham University, UNITED KINGDOM

1992The First Rank in the MA Program, Linguistics & English Language, JordanUniversity, JORDAN

1981Exceptional Promotion, Ministry of Education, KUWAIT

1975Ashakhsheer’s award for the distinguished students, Faculty of Arts, JordanUniversity, JORDAN

Academic Publications

  1. Published Books:
  1. Al-Ali, M. N. (2012) Genre, Schema, and the Academic Writing Process: An Enquiry into the Generalisability of Generic Structure and its Relationship to Schematic Knowledge. Saarbrucken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing.
  1. Selected Published Articles:
  1. Al-Ali, M. N. Holme, R. (1999). The flight from a perfect world: Rethinking the notion of genre in Language teaching. In P. Thompson (Ed.). Issues in EAP Writing Research and Instruction (pp. 4- 17). The University of Reading, U. K.: Centre for Applied Language Studies.
  2. Al-Ali- M. N. (2003). ‘Remodeling the relation between genre constraints and registerial options’. Grazer Linguistische Studien, 60: 1- 15.
  3. Al-Ali, M. N. (2003). ‘Analyzing the generic structures and the rhetorical patterns of the Qur’anic narrative parables’. Al-‘Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Arabic, 36: 81-106.
  4. Al-Ali, M. N. (2004). ‘How to get yourself on the door of a job: A cross-cultural contrastive study of Arabic and English job application letters’. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 25 (1): 1- 23.
  5. Al-Ali, M. N. (2004). ‘Familiar words in unfamiliar contexts’. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 12(2): 134-144.
  6. Al-Ali, M. (2005) ‘Communicating messages of solidarity, promotion, and pride in death announcements genre in Jordanian newspapers’. Discourse and Society,16: 5- 31.
  7. Al-Khatib, M. A. Al-Ali, M. N. (2005). ‘Language and cultural maintenance among the Gypsies of Jordan’. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,26(3): 187-215.
  8. Al-Ali, M. N. (2006) ‘Religious affiliations and masculine power in Jordanian wedding invitation genre’, Discourse and Society,17: 5- 31.
  9. Al-Ali, M.N.(2006) 'Genre-pragmatic strategies in English letter-of-application writing of Jordanian Arabic-English bilinguals', International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism,9(1): 119-39.
  10. Al-Ali, M.N.(2006) 'Conveying academic and social identity in graduate dissertation acknowledgments'.Fifth International Conference of the European Association of Language for specific Purposes, 14-16 September, Zaragoza, Spain (pp. 35- 42)
  11. Al-Zoubi, M. Q.; Al-Ali, M. N. & Al-Hasnawi, A. R. (2007). 'Cogno-cultural issues in translating metaphors' Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 14 (3): 230- 239.
  12. Al-Ali, M.N. & Sahawneh, M. (2008) 'An investigation into the generic features of English requestive e-mail messages, Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) & Professional Communication, 8 (2): 40- 65.
  13. Al-Ali, M. N. (2009). Academic and socio-cultural identities in English dissertation acknowledgements of Arab writers. ESP Across Cultures, 6: 7- 27.
  14. Al-Ali, M. N.& Al-Zoubi, M. Q. (2009)Different pausing, different meaning: Translating Qur'anic verses containing syntactic ambiguity. Perspective: Studies in Translatology, 17 (4): 227- 241.
  15. Al-Ali, M. N. (2010) ‘Generic patterns and socio-cultural resources in acknowledgements accompanying PhD dissertations’ Pragmatics, 20 (1): 1- 26.
  16. Al-Ali, M. N. & Alawneh, R. (2010).Linguistic mitigating devices in American and Jordanian undergraduate students’ requests. Intercultural Pragmatics, 7 (2): 311- 339.
  17. Al-Ali, M. N. & Arafa, H. I. (2010) An experimental sociolinguistic study of language variation in Jordanian Arabic. Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics, vol. 3, 207-230.
  18. Al-Azzam, B.; Al-Quran, M. & Al-Ali, M, N. (2010). Preserving the cultural essence in translating into Arabic the Shakespear’s sonnet “Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s day”. Journal of Language and Literature. May,pp. 40-46.
  19. Al-Khatib M. A. & Al-Ali, M. N. (2010) ‘Language and cultural shift among the Kurds of Jordan’. SKY Journal of Linguistics, Issue 23, pp. 7- 36.
  20. Al-Ali, M. N. & Sahawneh, Y. (2011) Rhetorical and Textual Organization of English and Arabic PhD Dissertation Abstracts in Linguistics. SKY Journal of Linguistics, Issue 24, pp. 7-39.
  21. Al-Ali, Mohammed and Alliheibi, Fahd (Accepted 2015). Struggling to retain the functions of passive when translating English thesis abstracts. Pragmatics, 25 (2): 129- 148
  22. Al-Ali, M. N. (In Press) Genre- Evaluative Strategies in Arabic book Reviews published in Academic Journals.

Unpublished Works

  1. Al-Ali, M. N. (1992)Some Linguistic Characteristics of the Language of Dentistry. Unpublished MA Thesis. Department of English Language and Literature, JordanUniversity, Jordan.

Academic Conferences and Seminars

  1. Al-Ali, M. N. ‘English and Arabic Generic and Linguistic Options in Book Blurbs: A Contrastive Study’. A paper presented at AKDENIZ LANGUAGE STUDIES CONFERENCE, 9th-12th May 2012,Antalya, Turkey.
  2. Al-Ali, M. N. 2nd International PRISEAL Conference, Publishing and presenting research Internationally, Occupying niches:Interculturality, cross-culturality and aculturality in academic research. Rhetorical and Textual Organization of English and Arabic PhD Dissertation Abstracts in Linguistics Institute of English, University of Silesia, 9th-11th June, 2011, Sosnowiec, Poland.
  3. Al-Ali, M. N. 'The Generic and registerial features of Email messages Written by American native speakers and Jordanian non-native speakers of English’. A paper presented at The English and Asia: The First International Conference on Language and Linguistics, 24-27, November, 2008, Kualalumpur, Malaysia.
  4. Al-Ali, M. N. “Generic patterns and Socio-cultural resources in acknowledgements accompanying PhD dissertations’. A paper presented at The First International Conference in LSP- and translation Studies- Oritnted Textual analysis, 27-29 May 2008, El Jadida, Moracco.
  5. Al-Ali, M. N. Head of the organizing committee of the 2008 JUST Conference of Applied Linguistics, April 29-30, 2008, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
  6. Al-Ali, M. N. Chairof the Eighteenth International Conference on Language and Linguistics, Literature, and translation, April 24-26, 2007, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
  7. Al-Ali, M. N. 'Conveying Academic and Social Identity in Graduate Dissertation Acknowledgements'. A paper presented at 5th International Conference of the European Association of Language for specific Purposes, 14-16 September, 2006, Zaragoza, Spain.
  8. Al-Ali, M. N. participated in 5th International TEFL Conference, 1-3 September, ESPCenter, Damascus University, Syria
  9. Al-Ali, M. N.'Genre-pragmatic Strategies in English Letter-of-Application Writing of Non-native EFL Speakers'. A paper presented at the 2005 Annual Conference of the International Society for Language Studies, April 18-20/2005, Montreal, Canada.
  10. Al-Ali, M. N. ‘Exploring the notion of genre’ Proceedings of the Sixth Science Conference. Faculty of ScienceArts, Jordan University of Science and technology. Jordan. 2004.
  11. Al-Ali, M. N. ‘How to get yourself at the door of a job’ a paper presented in September, at the 37th Linguistic Colloquium: Language and the Modern Media. 25- 27 September 2002. Germany.
  12. Al-Ali, M. N. ‘Remodeling the relation between genre constraints and registerial options’ 36th Linguistic Colloquium. 11- 13 September 2001. Slovynia.
  13. Al-Ali, M. N. ‘The relationship between rhetorical patterns and the generic structures’. Proceedings of the Fourth Science Conference. Faculty of ScienceArts, Jordan University of Science and technology. Jordan. 2002.
  14. Al-Ali, M. N. ‘Disambiguating the relation between genre and register’. A paper presented at the Second Durham Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Durham, 18 June 1999. United Kingdom.
  15. Al-Ali, M. N.‘Contextualized research article writing genre vs. decontextualized models; implications for the teachability of reading and writing RA genre through process techniques’ A paper presented at the First Durham Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Durham, 16 June 1998. United Kingdom.
  16. ‘The flight from a perfect world: rethinking the notion of genre in language teaching’ A paper presented at the BALEAP PIM at the University of Reading, November, 1997. United Kingdom.

Reviewer

  • Reviewer of many articles published in international, indexed and refereed journals such as:

1.Journal of Pragmatics by Elsevier Publishing

2.Discourse, Context and Media by Elsevier Publishing

3.Journal of Sociolinguistics b Wiley Publishing

4.Text and Talkby Elsevier Publishing

5.Language, Culture and Curriculumby Taylor and Francis

6.System Journal by Elsevier Publishing

7.International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism by Taylor and Francis

8.Social Semiotics

9.GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies

10.Language for Specific Purposes(LSP)& Professionalcommunication

  • Reviewer of Books
  1. English for Law

Selected MA Theses Supervised

  1. Asnat Al-Mutari (2004). The Generic Structure of Prophet Moses’s stories. Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
  2. Zainab Al-Shdiefat (2004). The Effect of Starting Age on Foreign Language Reading Comprehension Proficiency. Jordan University of Science and technology, Irbid, Jordan. (Co-supervisor).
  3. Arafa, HebaI. (2005). An experimental Socio-phonetic Study of Language Variation in Jordanian Arabic: Irbid as a Case Study. Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
  4. Marji, Lana S. (2005). Linguistic Accommodation among Jordanian Doctors to Elderly Patients in KingAbdullahUniversityHospital. (Co-supervisor). Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
  5. Alawneh. Rami (2007).Linguistic Mitigating Devices in the Requestive Acts of American and Jordanian Undergraduates. Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
  6. Sahawneh, Meera B (2008). The Generic and the Registerial Features of Email Messages Written by Americanand Jordanian Nonnative Speakers of English.JordanUniversity of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
  7. Ma’ayah, Katea M. (2009). Responses to Complaints among American and Jordanian University students: A Contrastive Study.Jordan university of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
  8. Sahwneh, Yara B. (2009) A Genre Analysis of English and Arabic Dissertation Abstracts in Linguistics.Jordanuniversity of Science and Technology. Irbid, Jordan.
  9. Alsalman, Amani H. (2009). Rhetorical and Linguistic Choices in Dissertation Abstracts Translated from English into Arabic.Jordanuniversity of Science and Technology. Irbid, Jordan.
  10. Al-Marashdeh, Mohammed H. (2010). A Comparative Study of the Generic and Linguistic Features of English and Arabic Book Blurbs. Jordanuniversity of Science and Technology.Irbid, Jordan.

Selected MA Theses Examined (External Examiner)

  1. Al-Qudah, Ayat (2003). Acquisition of Selected Phrasal Verbs by English majors at YarmoukUniversity in Jordan. YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  2. Saleh, Khalid (2004). Some Problems of Translating Economics Written texts. YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  3. Hammadeen, Maram (2004). Physician-Patient Face-to-Face Interaction in Irbid, Jordan. YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  4. Al-Rawabdeh, Nuha A. (2005). Art of Argumentation and Persuasion in Political Speeches of His Majesty King Abdullah II Maintained in their Arabic Translation.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  5. Khwaileh, Fadwa, A. (2005). A Pragmatic Analysis of Jordanian Arabic and American English Refusal Strategies. YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  6. Al-Daoud, Mowafaq M. (2006). American Ideologies on Satellite TV Channels: A Critical Discourse Analysis. YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  7. Al-Sadi, Hanan Z. (2006). The Acquisition of Passive Voice by Jordanian Children.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  8. Muheidat, Mukarram A. (2006). The Morphophonemics of Loanwords in Arabic.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  9. Al-Essa, Rima. (2006). A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Lexical and Grammatica; Variations in the Dialect of Howarah-Madaba District (Jordan). YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  10. Al-Omari, Osama M. (2006). An Analysis of Friday Sermons Discourse: A Case Study of Jordanian Mosques. YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  11. Al-Omari, Mohammad A. (2006). Universal Grammar and the Acquisition of Arabic by Adult Native Speakers of English.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  12. Al-Sharif, Ahmad K. (2007). Metaphorical Conceptualization of Happiness and anger in English and Arabic: A Comparative Study.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  13. AlShalaan, Ibrahim A. (2007). Translating Death Announcements in Saudi, American and British Newspapers.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  14. Ababeneh, Heba (2007). A Phonological Study of Nasals in YarmoukUniversity Students' Recitation of the Holy Qur'an.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  15. Hazaymeh, Wafa' A. (2007). A Sociolinguistic Study of Written Expressions on Vehicles in Jordan. YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  16. Al-Dwairi, Omar M. (2008). The Speech Act of Promising in Jordanian Arabic.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  17. Ahmed, Ali (2008). Discourse Analysis of Violence Expressions in Jordanian Newspapers.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  18. Al-Yousef, Haitham M. (2008). Obstacles of Translating Nasser and Churchill’s Speeches Due to Built-in-Language repetition.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  19. Al-Rashdan, Mohammed A. (2008). The Incompatibility of Verb Tenses in English and Arabic.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  20. Al-Raba'a, BasemI. (2009). The Generic and Registerial Features of Facebook Apology Messages in English and Arabic by Americans and Jordanians.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  21. Shadafan, Neveen S. (2009). Intertextuality in Translating Political Texts in Jordanian Newspapers.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  22. Al-Wardat, Mohammed A. (2010) A Semantic and Morphological Study of Diminutives in English and Arabic.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  23. Juruh, Hala (2010) The Rendition of Emphasis in Translating Barak Obama’s Speeches into Arabic.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  24. Al-Abdullah, Maram (2011) Aristotle’s Rhetorical Strategies in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.YarmoukUniversity, Irbid, Jordan.
  25. Mammeri, Sofiane (2012) A Sociolinguistic Study of Code Switching in Algeria. Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
  26. Al-Anbar, Khalid Abdullah (2012)Arab Learners’ Acquisition of English Nominal Phrase Premodification. The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
  27. Khelf, Yakout (2013). The Semantics of Instructional Texts in Arabic, English and French: A Contrastive Study.Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.

Teaching Experience

A) Undergraduate Course

  • English 111
  • English 112
  • Grammar I (YarmoukUniversity)
  • Reading Comprehension (Engl. 114)
  • Writing I (Engl. 115)
  • Introduction to Linguistics (Engl. 201)
  • Paragraph Writing (Engl. 202)(YarmoukUniversity)
  • Essay Writing (Engl. 206) (YarmoukUniversity)
  • Writing II (Essay Writing) (Engl. 211)
  • Advanced grammar and Usage I (Engl. 313) (YarmoukUniversity)
  • Advanced grammar and Usage II (Engl. 314)(YarmoukUniversity)
  • English for Tourism and Aviation (Engl. 314) (JUST University)
  • English for Hotels (Engl. 315) (JUST University)
  • Syntax and Morphology (Engl. 315)(YarmoukUniversity)
  • Contrastive Linguistics (Engl. 316) (YarmoukUniversity)
  • Functional Grammar (Engl. 374)
  • Discourse Analysis (Engl. 402)
  • English for Business, Commercial Correspondence, and Secretarial Purposes (Engl. 410).
  • English for Medical Purposes (Engl. 415)
  • Creative Writing (Engl.417)
  • Applied Linguistics (Engl. 418)(YarmoukUniversity)
  • Syntax and Morphology (Engl. 473)

B) Graduate Courses

  • Stylistics (Engl. 615)(YarmoukUniversity)
  • Stylistics (Engl. 706) JUST University
  • Applied Linguistics (Engl. 701)
  • Research methodology (Engl. 791)
  • Seminar (Engl. 792).
  • Advanced Topics in Linguistics (Engl. 793).
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Communication Skills for MA Students of Tourism (YarmoukUniversity)

Workshops

  1. Workshop on Quality Assurance titled: “Student Learning Outcomes (SQLs): Design and Measure” for Humanities and Social sciences Faculties. Organized by the Center of Quality Assurance, The Hashemite University, Jordan,29/1- 31/1/2012.
  2. QUALITY MANAGEMENT System Requirement (ISO 9001: 2008)organized by Quality Consultants, Jordan, 19 February- 1 May, 2012. As a Library Director, the Quality Management System in JUST Library has been approved by Lloyd’s Quality Assurance, 25 September, 2012.
  3. Statistical Analysis of Examinations & Research Data, organized by The Academic Development Center, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan, 28/10/2009- 29/10/2009.
  4. Workshop (20) onEducation and Evaluation Technology: Using Internet in Education, organized by Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan, 15-29/4/2000.
  5. Workshop (18) on Education and Evaluation Technology, organized by Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan, 26-29/9/1999.

Committee Membership at the Department of English Level

  • Head of the Organizing Committeeof the 2008 JUST Conference of Applied Linguistics, April 29-30, 2008, JUST University, Jordan
  • A member of Graduate Studies Committee from 2000- present
  • A member of Scientific Research Committee from 2000- present
  • A member of the Committee of the Study Plan from 2001- Present
  • A member of the Promotion Committee of Department Staff

Committee Membership at the Faculty of Science and Arts Level

  • A member of Graduate Studies Committee from 2007- 2008
  • A member of Scientific Research Committee from 2007- 2008
  • A member of the Committee of the Study Plan from 2007- 2008
  • A member of the Promotion Committee of Faculty Members
  • Department representative in the Faculty of Science and Arts Council 2000/2001

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