Dr. Meryem Fati is a is an Assistant Professor at AOU- Bahrain. she the coordinator of the MA in TEFL. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK. She has been teaching for more than fourteen years. Her areas of expertise are: Applied Linguistics, Analysis and Assessment of Educational and Training Systems, Education, Development of Cultural Awareness in Language classes, and English language and Culture. She has been a visiting scholar in The USA and she taught in Morocco and Bahrain. Dr. Meryem Fati has been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship in 2012 and was a scholar at Kansas University-USA. Also, she has been awarded many awards from the Ministry of education- Morocco.
Dr. Meryem is interested in areas related to Linguistics and Education mainly: E- learning, Assessment and Evaluation, Higher Education, School Education, Adult Education, Vocational Training, Language Learning, Languages for Specific Purposes, Translation, Culture Teaching, Inclusive Education, Sociolinguistics, and Psycholinguistics.
Dr. Meryem’s teaching experience gave her the opportunity to develop her career, the way of using teaching methods, and most importantly merge some of them to get positive outcomes. Her approach is to promote innovative methods of teaching and learning (using technology, flipped classroom) and focus on interactive teaching techniques while considering student diversity. Dr. Meryem strongly believes that the learning environment has a great influence on teaching and learning. She does not like to teach in the classroom. If we look back in time most of the learning was done inside the classroom. It was the single most important learning environment. Certain times students may feel bored and some may always link it with negative thoughts. She likes to conduct classes in different environments using all the facilities on campus in an instructive way.
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2020 – Present)
- Assistant Professor & Coordinator of MA in
TEFL Faculty of Language Studies- Arab open University, Bahrain
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- Courses taught: Worlds of English
A & B, English Phonetics and Linguistics, Oral & Presentation Skills, Writing Research, Research methods, Technology in the Classroom, Proposal Writing, Thesis Supervision.
- QA Coordinator
- Vice Chair of Scientific Research
Council
- Safeguarding committee Chair
(2017 – 2020)
- Assistant Professor- General Science Department-Gulf University, Bahrain
Courses taught: Advanced study skills, technical report writing,
Media translation, Business English, English for Effective Communication,
English For Engineering
Duties:
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- Supervising the teaching
process in the department and ensuring performance of excellence.
- Supervising students’ course
registrations and ensuring their proper advising procedures along with
their path in pursuit of their degrees.
- Recommending courses to be
offered by the department each semester and the faculty members assigned
to teach them.
- Supervising the execution of
college’s research plan in the department.
- Supervising and coordinating
the academic review process at the department.
- Submitting reports to the Dean
about the performance of the department on a semester basis.
- Performing other duties as assigned
by the Dean of College.
Other duties:
- Director of Teaching Excellency
and technology Center
- Chair of Teaching Learning Assessment
Committee
- Chair of the Research Committee
- Manager of the International
Relations Office
- Member of the Teaching,
Learning and Assessment Committee
- Member of the Quality Assurance
Committee
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(2012 – 2017) - Lecturer- Institute For
Leadership and Communication Studies (ILCS), Morocco
Courses:
Initiation to Translation, Ngo’s and International Life, Linguistics, Textual
analysis, Literary Translation, Legal Translation, Comparative Linguistics,
Translation Club, Administrative Translation, Economic Translation, Scientific
Translation, sight translation, subtitling, phonetics and phonology and
Scientific Translation
(2008 – 2017)
- Institut National des Postes et
Télécommunications (INPT), Rabat
- Mohammed V
University, College of Law Economics, and Social Sciences, Rabat
- Mohammed V University, College of Letters and
Humanities, Rabat
- Ibn Tofail
University, College of Letters and Humanities, Kenitra
- The Language
Workshop- Rabat
- Learning Group Academy (TOEFL, IELTS preparation)
- Mohammed V
University, Ecole Normale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique- (ENSET)-
Rabat
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Published Papers - Fati, M. (2022). Rethinking education in the post COVID-19 era: Implications for the academia. Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 15(4), 1-15.
- Ahmed, U., Ismail, A. I., Fati, M., & Akour, M. A. (2021). E-learning during COVID-19: Understanding the nexus between instructional innovation, E-psychological capital, and online behavioral engagement. Management in Education, 35(4), 185-198.
- Fati, M., Ahmed, U., Umrani, W., Zaman, F. (2019). Academic press and student engagement: Can academic psychological capital intervene? Test of a mediated model on business graduates. International Journal of Higher Education, 8(3), 100-110.
- Fati, M. (2019). The power of play in ESL classes. In Proceedings of the IAFOR Conference on Educational Research and Innovation (ERI2019), Virginia Tech, USA, May 2019.
- Fati, M. (2018). The impact of anxiety on English language learning: The case of Bahraini university students. In Proceedings of the Future of Education Conference, Firenze, Italy, June 2018.
- Fati, M. (2015). Thinking locally and working globally. IOSR Journal of Research and Method in Education, 5(1), 42-47.
- Fati, M. (2013). Multiculturalism in a multilingual society: Could that be possible? IOSR Journal of Research and Method in Education, 2(2), 31-36.
- Fati, M. (2013). The effect of English writing proficiency on the type and amount of errors produced by Moroccan EFL students. International Journal of Education and Research, 1(9), 1-10.
- Fati, M. (2022). Ensuring quality-based inclusive education through online teaching and learning: Critical insights. 5th International Conference on Education Quality, Ibn Zohr University.
- Fati, M. (2019, May). The power of play in ESL classes. Paper presented at The IAFOR Conference on Educational Research and Innovation (ERI2019), Virginia Tech, USA.
- Fati, M. (2018, June). The impact of anxiety on English language learning: The case of Bahraini university students. Paper presented at The Future of Education Conference, Firenze, Italy.
- Fati, M. (2015). Thinking locally and working globally. IOSR Journal of Research and Method in Education, 5(1), 42-47. e-ISSN: 2320–7388, p-ISSN: 2320–737X. Also presented at 2nd International Conference on Education and Social Sciences Intcess15, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Fati, M. (2012, March 15-18). Identity and sexual politics in Francophone Sub-Saharan African cinema: A focus on female genital mutilation. Paper presented at Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference, Rochester, NY, USA.
- Fati, M. (2012, May 25). EFL classes: A focus on the 5 Cs. Paper presented at FSE Symposium, Mohammed V University-Souissi, Faculty of Education, Rabat.
