Yousif A. N. ALShumaimeri
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Occupation: Associate Professor
Work place: King Saud University, College of Education
Department: Curriculum and Instruction Department
General Major: Curriculum and Instruction
Major: TESOL
Work Address: P.O.Box: 2458, Riyadh: 11451, Saudi Arabia
Work TEL: 009661-4674640 – 009661-4674611
E-Mail Address: yousif@alostath.com
Website: www.alostath.com
2003 PhD
School of Education, University of Leeds.
1999 MEd. In TESOL
School of Education, University of Leeds.
This was a postgraduate degree course specialising in TESOL. The subject areas covered included: Teaching English to speakers of other languages.
1996 Bachelor of Education
College of Eduation, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
1996-1997 English language teacher at Al-Abna’a Secondary School in Riyadh.
1997-1998 Teacher assistant and Language teacher at King Abdulaziz Military Academy in Riyadh.
1998-2003 Teacher assistant at King Saud University, College of Education, Curriculum and Instruction department.
2001-2002 Deputy Headmaster for the Saudi Arabic school in Leeds, UK.
2004- 2008 Assistant Professor at King Saud University, College of Education, Curriculum and Instruction department.
2007-2008 Chair, Department of Self-Development Skills, Preparatory Year Deanship.
2008-date Associate Professor at King Saud University, College of Education, Curriculum and Instruction department.
2008-date Vice Dean for Academic Development at the Deanship of Development.
Diploma in NLP in Education.
Several short courses in the use of computers in Education and CALL.
Two courses in teaching English to young learners.
Two courses in syllabus design.
Courses in leadership and administration.
A special course in qualitative analysis using computers.
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 Unpublished Master Dissertation, University of Leeds, Leeds.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 Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, University of Leeds, Leeds.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.
Cook, G. (2008). 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.
- Oral second language learning
- Using pedagogic tasks
- Oral tasks and language development
- Syllabus design for TESOL
- EFL teacher training
§ IATEFL Annual Conference, Cardiff 2009, UK.
§ TESOL Arabia Annual Conference, Dubai 2008, UAE.
§ IATEFL Annual conference, Harrogate 2006, UK.
§ Al-Alsun Annual Conference, Minia University 2005, Egypt.
§ Globalization and Educational Priorities, College of Education, King Saud University, Riyadh 2004.
§ Task-based Colloquium, St. Mary's college 2003, UK.
§ School of Education TESOL annual conference, University of Leeds 2000, UK.
§ IATEFL Annual conference, The university of Edinburgh 1999, UK.
I participate in a number of committees as follow:
§ Head of TESOL stream in the department of Curriculum and Instruction, 2003 – presents.
§ A member of the departmental committee for courses and academic plans, 2005-2006-2007.
§ A member of the departmental committee for the development of postgraduate studies, 2006.
§ A member of the departmental committee for accreditation, 2006-2007.
§ A member of the departmental committee for recruitment needs 2007.
§ A member of the departmental committee for development, 2007.
§ A member of college committee for evaluating the diploma programme of the Arab Open University, 2006.
§ A member of college committee for the participation and planning in King Abdullah project for general education development, 2007.
§ A member of a university committee for establishing a preparatory year, 2007.
§ Coordinator for Cooperation between King Saud University and Leeds University.
· International Association for teachers of English as a foreign language (IATEFL) since 1999.
· Saudi Educational and Psychological Association since 1998
· British Association for NLP in education since 2003.
· Association for Language Learning (ALL) since 2005.
· Member of TESOL Arabia since 2007.