introduction/brief CV
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Dear students,
If you need any help at any point, please don't hesitate to contact me by email: ealmusallam@ksu.edu.sa
areas of expertise
My research interests span nonverbal communication, politeness, interlanguage pragmatics (ILP), L2 interactions, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.
publications
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Although linguistic politeness has been extensively theorized about, the role of nonverbal behaviour in managing politeness in interactions has been neglected until recently.
The current study was driven by the most recent research trend of interlanguage pragmatics, which regards communication as a complex phenomenon and considers a learner's ability to produce social…
Although discursive scholars emphasize that norms of appropriate behaviour play a vital role in politeness evaluations, the relational work framework has yet to provide analytic tools that capture…
courses
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This specialized course aims particularly to introduce students to the different types of reports and extending students' knowledge of English Language. Students learn intensively how to write…
The course is designed to help elementary to pre-intermediate learners of business English acquire the vocabulary necessary for business and various work situations. Besides, the textbook is…
This is an introductory course in ‘Writing’ where students are to be taught basic writing skills. They are trained to build vocabulary that would be required to write a good paragraph. They are…