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Dr. Buthainah Al Thowaini is an assistant professor of psycholinguistics at King Saud University. She is a language and media consultant and trainer and currently heads the Skills Development Unit at the college. Before joining KSU, Dr. Al Thowaini received her doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests focus on L2 language processing and language acquisition.
EDUCATION
“Innovative Tools in the Study of Language” Summer Program
from the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology
Università di Padova (University of Padua), Padua, Italy
- A virtual summer school; training on novel research tools, such as corpus analysis, machine learning, and multisite collaborative testing.
Doctor of Philosophy in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
from the Second Language Acquisition Program
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)
from the Department of Applied Linguistics
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
- Schreyer Honors Scholar
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature
from the English Department
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Teaching with Technology (TwT) Certificate
College of Liberal Arts
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
- Certificate awarded to instructors with advanced and innovative use of technology in teaching.