Nahla Nola Bacha is a holder of a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from the University of Leicester, England and is presently an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Byblos Campus at the Lebanese American..
Nahla Nola Bacha is a holder of a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from the University of Leicester, England and is presently an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Byblos Campus at the Lebanese American University, Lebanon. She has over twenty years of teaching and administrative experience. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on the writing of university students whose English is a second language and French third in addition to their native language Arabic. She has presented papers and workshops at local and international conferences and organized ELT workshops and conferences at LAU for the community in conjunction with the British Council. Her publications include English texts for the Lebanese National Center for Educational Research and Development, chapters in edited books on teaching/learning ESL/EFL, and articles in discourse and corpus analysis, EAP/ESP, writing, and testing in international refereed journals. She is presently researching English across university academic disciplines and is interested in redefining the role of English Programs within both academic and professional contexts and the role of ELT in fostering citizenship. She is currently involved in program development and review in English (literature/language), history and philosophy and introducing German, French, Spanish and Italian languages into the Humanities Division.
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