Name: Prof. Dr. Ibrahim S.M. Al-Fallay
Major: Applied linguistics
Minor: Language testing
Mailing Address:
English Department – College of Arts – P.O.Box 2456 King Saud University – Riyadh 11451 – Saudi Arabia
E-Mail: ifallay@ksu.edu.sa
Tel:00966-1-4675547
Rank: Professor
Educational Background:
1-B.A.
University: King Saud University, Riyadh – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - B.A. In English, College of Education
Date of Obtaining Degree: 28 / 6 / 1987
2- M.A.
University: The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
M.A. in Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences
Date of Obtaining Degree: 30 / 3 / 1992
3- Ph.D.
University: The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Ph.D. In Applied Linguistics, College of Education
Date of Obtaining Degree: 14 / 5 / 1994
Employment History:
1- Professor – English Department- College of Arts – King Saud University (22/5/2002 – present).
2- Associate professor – English Department- College of Arts – King Saud University (1/6/1998 –21/5/2002).
3- Assistant professor - – English Department- College of Arts – King Saud University (2/10/1995 – 31/5/1998).
4- Assistant professor – English Language Center – Institute of Public Administration (30/4/1994 – 1/10/1995).
5- Lecturer - English Language Center – Institute of Public Administration (11/5/1992 – 29/4/1994).
6- Administrator - English Language Center – Institute of Public Administration (7/3/1989 – 10/5/1992).
7- EFL teacher – Ministry of Education (12/9/1987 – 6/3/1989).
Administrative Experience:
1- Director of the Program of Administration and Human Sciences – College of Applied Studies and Community Service- King Saud University( From 12/12/2007 to present)
2- Academic supervisor of the English Language program – College of Applied Studies and Community Service- King Saud University (from the academic year 2000/2001 to present).
3- Chairman of the Department of European Languages and Translation – College of Languages and Translation - King Saud University (from 14/3/1998 to 20/2/2000).
4- Supervisor of the Intensive English program – English Department - College of Arts – King Saud University (for the academic year of 1998/1999).
5- Acting General Director – English Language Center – Institute of Public Administration (from 1/8/1992 to 12/9/1992).
Committee Membership:
1- Member of examination committee – College of Arts – King Saud University (for the academic year 1998/1999).
2- Chair of textbooks committee – English Department - College of Arts – King Saud University (since the academic year of 1995/1996 to present)
3- Member of Language committee – English Department - College of Arts – King Saud University (since the academic year of 1995/1996 to present)
4- Member of Graduate studies committee - English Department - College of Arts – King Saud University (for the academic year 2000/2001).
5- Member of outstanding achievement and the selection of administrators committee - English Department - College of Arts – King Saud University.
6- Member of students’ cases committee – College of Arts for the two academic years of 2001/2002 and 2002/2003.
7- Head of Schedule committee - English Department - College of Arts – King Saud University (Academic year 2003/2004).
8- Head of examination committee - English Department - College of Arts – King Saud University (Academic year 2003/2004).
Council Membership:
1- Member of College of Languages and Translation Council (from 14/3/1998 to 20/2/2000).
2- Chairman of the Council of the Department of European Languages and Translation – College of Languages and Translation - King Saud University (from 14/3/1998 to 20/2/2000).
3- Member of the Council of University studies for Girls in Ulaysha (from 14/3/1998 to 20/2/2000).
4- Member of the Council of the English Department - College of Arts – King Saud University (since the academic year of 1995/1996 to present)
5- Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of King Saud University (Languages and Translation) ( for the two academic years of 1998/1999 and 1999/2000).
6- Member of the Council of Humanities and Administrative Sciences Program – College of Applied Studies and Community Service – King Saud University For the academic years (2000/2001)-(2003-2004).
7- Chair of the Council of Humanities and Administrative Sciences Program – College of Applied Studies and Community Service – King Saud University (from From 12/12/2007 to present).
8- Member of the Council College of Applied Studies and Community Service – King Saud University (from From 12/12/2007 to present)
Scholarships and Awards:
Prince Bandar bin Sultan for outstanding achievement in the Ph.D. level.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching courses in English skills, reading, writing, speaking, and listening for various levels (beginners, intermediate, and advanced), also teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics, Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language testing, phonetics, phonology, history of English, syntax, morphology, semantics, translation, contrastive analysis, seminars, and error analysis.
Supervising and Referring
M.A./ Ph.D. Supervision and defense Committee: supervising some Ph.D. dissertations and M.A. thesis and participating as an internal and external examiner in many Ph.D. dissertations and M.A. thesis, in addition to referring some article considered for publication in referred academic journals.
Publication:
1- The Relationship among English Language Skills: A Communicative Approach for Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Al-Tarbyah, 114 (24), 98-121, 1995. (In Arabic)
2- The Relation of Cloze testing procedure to the skills of EFL. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 12, 5-18, 1996.
3- Diglossia. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Al-Obaykan. 1997. (In Arabic).
4-The Relationship between the Cloze Testing Procedure and the Skills Tests of EFL: A Correctional Study. Arab Journal for the Humanities, 57, 346-367, 1997.
5- Investigating the Reliability and Validity of the Fixed Ratio Multiple-Choice Cloze Test. Dirasat, Series A: The Humanities, 24, 2, 507-526 1997.
6- Validating a Multiple-Choice Cloze Test to Assess the Proficiency of EFL Learners’ Writing Skill, Arab Journal for the Humanities,65(1)273-308m 1999.
7- Limiting Bias in the Assessment of the Proficiency of Learners of English as a Foreign Language. Dirasat Series A: Human and Social Sciences, 26(1) 254-273, 1999.
8- English Tenses and Aspects: Are They too Difficult for Arab students to Master? Abhath Al-Yarmouk: Human and Social Science, 15 (4) 9-29, 1999.
9- Examining the Analytic Marking Method: Developing and Using an Analytic Scoring Schema. Journal of King Saud University – (Languages and Translation), 12, 1-22, 2000.
10-Motivation Type and Level of Language Proficiency: Two Crucial Factors in Self Assessment. Arab Journal for the Humanities, 75, 313-332. 2001
11- Telling the Rest of the Story: Examining Two Competing, Mutually Exclusive Hypotheses of the Proficiency in English as a Foreign Language. Research Center - College of Arts - King Saud University. Referred studies, Issue No. 75. 1998.
12- The Sociolinguistics of Society by Ralph Fasold. (Translated into Arabic) Published by the Academic council of King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2000.
13- The Role of some selected psychological and personality traits of the rater in the accuracy of self- and peer –assessment. System, 32, 3, pp. 407-425, 2004.
14- Constant Feedback and Pre-assessment Training in the Accuracy of Self-Assessment. Journal of Applied linguistics, 19, 7-20, 2003.
15- A Comparative Study of Foreign Language Learners’ Proficiency in Six Different Languages. Research Center - College of Languages and Translation - King Saud University, Referred studies, Issue No. 39. 2006.
16- The Impact of Ungrammatical Distractors on Performance of EFL Learners in Multiple-Choice Tests. Dirasat, Series A: The Humanities, 2007.
17- The Role of Self-assessment in Modifying Some Psychological and Personality Traits of Foreign Language Learners. Arab Journal for the Humanities, 93, 239-262. 2006.