Research Activities 

Alshumaimeri, Y. A. N. (1999). Saudi students’ perceptions of their textbook: English for Saudi Arabia, (EFSA), secondary year one. Unpublished Master Dissertation, University of Leeds, Leeds.

Alshumaimeri, Y. A. N. (2001). Who is the successful teacher? Al-Thaqafia, 45, 70-71.

Alshumaimeri, Y. A. N. (2003). Learn how to learn. Al-Thaqafia, 51, 84.

Alshumaimeri, Y. A. N. (2003). A study of classroom exposure to oral pedagogic tasks in relation to the motivation and performance of Saudi secondary learners of English in a context of potential curriculum reform. Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, University of Leeds, Leeds.

Alshumaimeri, Y. A. N. (2006). The effects of content familiarity and language ability on reading comprehension performance of low-and high-ability Saudi tertiary students studying English as a foreign language. King Saud University, Educational Sciences & Islamic Studies, 18(2), 1-19.

Alshumaimeri, Y. A. N. (2007). Gender differences in Reading comprehension performance in relation to content familiarity of gender-neutral texts. Journal of Education, Kuwait University, Kuwait.

Cook, G. (2007). Applied Linguistics (Y. A. N. Al-Shumaimeri, Trans.). Riyadh: King Saud University. 

Alshumaimeri, Y. (2008) Perceptions and attitudes toward using CALL in English classrooms among Saudi secondary EFL teachers. The JALT Journal, 4(2), 29-46.


 

Other Research interests 

• Oral second language learning
• Using pedagogic tasks
• Oral tasks and language development
• Syllabus design for TESOL
• EFL teacher training