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Hossam Elsherbiny

Hossam Elsherbiny

Director of Language Instruction Lecturer in Arabic

Department of Transnational Asian Studies

CONTACT

he9@rice.edu

SURF Mentoring

Potential projects/topics: Linguistics; applied linguistics; second language acquisition; translanguaging; sociolinguistics.

Potential skills gained: Develop the ability to identify and summarize relevant sources, create and revise a literature review, and conduct quantitative and qualitative studies in Linguistics.

Required qualifications or skills: None listed

Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I.

Research Areas

Hossam Elsherbiny earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ain Shams in Egypt. Prior to joining Rice, Dr. Elsherbiny taught Arabic language, Translation Studies, and Discourse Analysis at the University of Ain Shams and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Elsherbiny’s research and teaching portfolio spans a wide variety of topics, including Critical Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Media Arabic, and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Articles by Dr. Elsherbiny have been published in various journals, such as Recall (Cambridge University Press) and The Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL).