Faculty Area: Humanities and Social Sciences

Narrative, identity, and multiculturalism in a rapidly developing globalized city

This study explores the relationship between narrative, identity, and place in Doha by interviewing longtime residents about their life experiences. The diverse population and rapid pace of development in Doha…

Environmental history of the Arabs

(1) Arabic Language Studies; (2) Global Disaster Textbook; (3) Arabic Docuscope; (4) Arabic Environmental History Book; (5) Roman Fever: The Eternal City, Tropical Malaria, and European History For my next…

Research in Spanish language learning in Qatar

The purpose of this project is to measure students’ academic writing development in Spanish as they move from Elementary to Advanced Spanish. Learning Spanish at the college level is a…

Qatari English corpora construction

This project will result in the construction of two electronic corpora of Qatari English: the first comprised of texts produced by Qatari students in academic contexts; the other, texts produced…

Conservation and biodiversity in Qatar: Surveying awareness and attitudes toward Qatari fauna

Qatar is home to an impressive variety of unique terrestrial and marine animals, and the number of identified species in the region continues to grow. Current estimates claim 1,955 species,…

Language policy in globalized contexts

This Research Report will serve as a call for policy makers to address the challenge of promoting societal multilingualism and a resource for meeting the challenge.

Slate-Q: Scaffolding literacy in academic and tertiary environments: The case of communication in information systems

The proposed project seeks to improve the quality of student technical and professional communication at the postsecondary level through a literacy intervention study. In particular, this project focuses on the…

Learning4teaching-Qatar: Examining Qatari teachers’ experiences of professional development in English language teaching

This proposed study will examine public-sector Qatari English language teachers’ experiences in, and reported use of, professional development (PD). As a national case study in the larger cross-national Learning4Teaching Project,…

Advancing Arabic language learning in Qatar

All prior language research has shown that a negative attitude towards one’s mother tongue not only makes mastering the language difficult but also detrimentally affects the person’s self esteem. Across…

Improving professional communication skills through an online tutorial

Recent workplace studies have shown that a typical professional in a scientific or technical field spends more than half of his/her time communicating technical information to a variety of audiences…