Reima Al-Jarf, Ph.D.
Reima Saado Al-Jarf is professor of ELT and translation at the College of Languages and Translation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She has been teaching ESL, translation and linguistics courses for undergraduate students and ESP courses for graduate students for 20 years. Her areas of interests are: Use of technology in language teaching and learning, reading curriculum design, reading in ESL and spelling and translation error analysis. She has published 4 books and more than 90 journal articles in refereed International and national journals. She has given 135 presentations and attended more than 160 conferences in 30 countries (USA, UK, Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Spain, Greece, Poland, Ukraine, Turkey, North Cyprus, China, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran, Morocco, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia) and is a member of 22 national and international professional organizations. She has taught 45 langauge skills courses, linguistics, translation and interreting courses. Since the year 2000, she has used 20 online courses in teaching reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, translation and study skills courses to undergraduate students and ESP to graduate students. Many of her research results have been cited in international media and by many internet websites. For example, the results of her "Global Dimension in Saudi History Textbooks" paper appeared in more than 20 newspapers worldwide including World Tribune, Education Guardian, Opinion Journal, Le Monde , Gulf Wire Digest, Free Republic, the Straits Times, Arab News, Imra, Saudi-US Relations Information Service, and others and her "The Effects of Online Instruction on Struggling ESL College Writers" was also cited by many authors and was the subject of many research reviews.