Mousa Abdelghani Btoosh
Professor
English Language and Translation
Fahad Bin Sultan University
Saudi Arabia
Biography
ï¶ Education 2004 Ph.D. in Linguistics/Applied & Computational Linguistics (with distinction), Dept. of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, TX, U.S.A. 1999 M.A. in Linguistics (with distinction), Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan. 1994 B.A. in English Language and Literature, Mu’tah University, Karak, Jordan. 1990 General Secondary Education Certificate, Ministry of Education, Jordan. ï¶ Teaching Experience 9/2010 – Present Associate Professor, Dept. of English Language and Translation, College of Sciences and Humanities, Fahad Bin Sultan University, Tabouk, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 7-2010 –7-2015 Associate Professor, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Al- Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an-Jordan. 09/2004-7/2010 Assistant Professor, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Al- Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma’an-Jordan. Summer 2005 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, U.S.A. 8/2003 – 5/2004 Adjunct Faculty, Worlds Languages Division, Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, Dallas, TX, U.S.A. Summer 2002 Instructor, Continuing Education Division, University of Texas at Arlington, TX, U.S.A. 2000-2001 Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, Al-Hussein University, Ma’an, Jordan. 1999 Lecturer, Al-Balqa Applied University, Amman, Jordan. 1999 Lecturer (part-time), Department of English Language and Literature, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan. 2-8/1994 Teacher, Al-Shaheed Faisal College, Amman, Jordan.
Research Interest
- Corpus Linguistics - Phonology - Discourse Analysis - Second Language Acquisition - Syntax - Semantics
Publications
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Btoosh, Mousa A. “The Pragmatics of Color in Antara’s Poetryâ€. Journal of Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3, Pp. 170-178.
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Btoosh, Mousa A. “Tense and Aspect in L1 and L2 Academic Writing: A Corpus-Based Approachâ€
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Btoosh, Mousa A. “Case and Word Order Alternation in Standard Arabic: An Optimality-Theoretic Analysisâ€