I am a PhD candidate at Western University - Faculty of Education, Curriculum Studies and Studies in Applied Linguistics. My professional and academic careers have been focused on second/foreign language (L2) pedagogy & curriculum since I graduated at the Faculty of Education - Department of English Language & Literature in 1997, B.A., in 2007, M.Ed. and at the School of Linguistics and Language Studies in 2013, M.A.

My work experience includes more than 12 year-experience in teaching, supervision, and training. I worked in various educational settings where I taught English as a second/foreign language. I also gave education-based courses with more focus on L2 pedagogy & curriculum at the University. Supervising undergraduate pre-service teachers and public school in-service teachers added to my professional career as well. In addition, I gave various training courses to in-service public teachers and administrators in the Ministry of Education, addressing modern teaching pedagogy & practices as well as education in emergency.

My research interests are focused on pedagogical and instructional practices negotiated and enacted by teachers and students in L2 classroom and context. My doctoral research project seeks to alleviate L2 learners’ challenges to write in English, to assist them to produce high quality writing texts in English, and to shape collaborative relationship between them and the teacher under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Bird.

My PhD research thesis is a convergent mixed methods study that has a twofold purpose. First, it seeks to find out how a self-regulated learning (SRL) instructional program will influence L2 undergraduate learners’ writing and SRL strategy use. Second, in light of the teacher-directed or learner-oriented instruction deliberation on the SRL model, the study will explore the likelihood of this model to empower L2 writers as agents evolved from their life engagement through the handling of opportunities and challenges they encounter throughout their L2 writing experience.