CV
Sa’da Bader, PhD. Clinical linguistics.
Personal Information & Contact
Date of Birth: August 20, 1980
Nationality: Jordanian
E-mail:
Mobile: 00962-799437025
Education
April 2007-July 2010
PhD. with ‘summa cum laude’; with the highest praise in ‘’The Phonology of Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition: A Study of Jordanian Arabic Speaking Children.’’Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Bielefeld Universität, Germany.
This work has been financed by a four-year-scholarship from (Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst – KAAD), The Catholic Academic Exchange Service-Germany supporting the scientific research in the developing countries in general and the middle east in particular.
October 2002-June 2005
Jordan University of Science and Technology, College of Science and Art, MA. In Applied Linguistics.
Thesis: A socio-pragmatic study of offering and responses in Jordanian Arabic.
Areas of study:
Sociolinguistics, Phonetics & Phonology, Applied linguistics, Translation & Interpretation, Syntax, Contrastive linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics.
Average: 88.7 Rating: very good
1998-2002
Jordan University of Science and Technology, College of Science and Art, Bachelor of (ESP) English for Specific Purposes.
Areas of study:
Arabic-English Translation and vice versa
English for Business and secretarial work, mass media, travel& insurance as well as English for accounting and Commerce.
Bachelor thesis: English for mass media.
Average: 90,2 Rating: Excellent
1997-1998
High school examination. Alwahadneh Ajloun with average 93,9
Teaching & work Experience
September 2016 till now: teaching at Jordan University of Science and Technology at the Department of English Language and Linguistics.
February 2011 till August 2016 working as an assistant professor at Jadara University-Irbid Jordan.Teaching Phonetics and Phonology at the department of English language and literature.
Winter semester 2005 & Summer semester 2006: Jordan University of Science and Technology, College of Science and Art, Department of English for applied studies. Teaching English language skills for the students of Science and Art.
Summer semester 2005: Al-Yarmouk University, Jordan, teaching English language skills for the students of Science and Art.
September 2002-June 2005: English Language teacher for elementary and intermediate levels in Latin Patriarchate School, Ajloun, Jordan.
Summer semester 2001: worked at (The Star), a weekly English newspaper, Al-Doustor Amman, Jordan.
Workshops & Conferences
1- Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, Poland, 11th -14th Sep. 2008, and presenting the initial results of my PhD research work, “Issues in the Characterisation of Speech Impairment vs. Delayed Acquisition in Jordanian Arabic Children.”
2-The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany.
3- The 42nd students’ linguistics meeting, Kiel, Germany.21st Nov-25th Nov 2007.
4- 26th January 2008, “Workshop des Aktuelle Fragen der Phonetik, Phonologie, und Prosodie“ Bielefeld university.
5- The 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics, Bamberg (Feb 27-29, 2008).
6- Workshop at the School of English AMU, Department of Contemporary English Language at Adam Mickiewicz University on the 21st February 2008.
7- Process writing workshop, January 2006, Grace Low, Houston. Community college at the civil society development centre, Alumni Club, Jordan University of Science and Technology.
8-The Nobel Laureates meeting (Festival of thinkers, Designing the future through thinking), Abu Dhabi and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 26th-30th March 2005.
Languages & skills
Arabic as a mother tongue.
English as a first second language.
German: having a upper intermediate level-certificate from Kreuzberg language institute-Bonn-Germany during the time from September 2006 until the end of March 2007.
Praat phonetics workbench and Embrola.
Computer skills.
Teaching interests
Phonetics& phonology, language acquisition: normal and abnormal. Articulation and speech disorders, applied linguistics, translation, contrastive linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics.
Research Interests: Language acquisition: phonology and Morphology. First and second language acquisition: production and perception differences between typical and atypical children.
Publications
Bader, S. (2009). Speech and Language Impairments of Arabic-Speaking Jordanian Children within Natural Phonology and Phonology as Human Behaviour. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. Vol. 45, Issue 2, 191–210.
Darwish, I & Bader, S. (2014). Language and Religion in Jordan. Research on Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 4, No. 26, 76-80.