MUFLEH SALEM M. ALQAHTANI

Bio: 
Assistant professor in Theoretical Linguistics (Phonology) at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

CV
 
Personal information:
 
Name: MUFLEH SALEM AL-QAHTANI.
 
Marital Statue: married.
 
Nationality: Saudi.
 
The date of birth: 23/07/1984
 
The place of birth: Hafer Albatin.
 
The place of residence: Riyadh.
P.O box: 112141 Riyadh
 
Email:
mqahtani1@ksu.edu.sa
ssll2009@live.co.uk
mufleh2015.phd@gmail.com
 
 
                                                        
Qualifications:
 
- AL-Imam AbdulAziz ben Mohammad High School in Riyadh/ Science in 2002.
 
- The bachelor’s degree in education and English language from King Saud University (Teachers College) 2006.
- Major: English language.
- Overall grade: very good (Second Class Honors)
- GPA: 4.35 out of 5.00
- Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.
- PhD in Theoretical Linguistics (Phonology) from the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom.

Other Certificates:
- The certificate of Higher Education course from Newcastle University in the UK
- The certificate of teaching English Training from Hastings College of Arts and Technology in England.
- The certificate of using multimedia for electronic learning from Technical and Vocational Training Corporation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- The certificate of training methods from Technical and Vocational Training Corporation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- The certificate of skills of communication and interaction with others from Technical and Vocational Training Corporation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
-The certificate of INTEL for Education from INTEL Company with the corporation of Riyadh Teachers' College.
- The certificate of Higher Education course from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. 

Experience:
 
- I have an experience of teaching English language of one term (one of the requirements for graduation).
 
- I spent two years teaching English at ALKharj College of Technology in Saudi Arabia, and I was the head of English Language Centre there.
 
- I was working as a teacher assistant at King Saud University in English Department(Teachers College)
 
- I was a member of the committee of Assessment and Evaluation at the Ministry of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia.
 
- I was a member of the committee of the undergraduate admission at King Saud University (Teachers College).
 
- I was a member of Students’ Affairs at Teachers College.
 
-  I spent two years teaching Phonetics and Phonology Course at Newcastle University while I was doing my PhD at the same university. 
 

CONFERENCES

  • 'Sonority and Epenthesis in Najdi Arabic (NA): An OT analysis', Poster Presentation, 8th Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, 2013.
  • 'Sonority and Epenthesis in Najdi Arabic (NA): An OT analysis', Poster Presentation, 9th Phonetik und Phonologie conference, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2013.
  • 'Non-final Superheavy Syllables in Najdi Arabic (NA)', Manchester Forum in Linguistics, Manchester University, 2013.

Research Interests

Theoretical Phonology, Descriptive Phonology, Historical Phonology, Phonological Acquisition, Sociophonology, and Morphophonology. I am also interested in Optimality Theory in terms of the analysis of phonological aspects of English in general and Arabic modern dialects in particular, especially Saudi dialects. 

 
 
 
 

Qualifications

University: 
King Saud University
From Date: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
To Date: 
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Specialization: 
English
Degree: 
Bachelors degree
University: 
The University of Sussex in the UK
From Date: 
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
To Date: 
Monday, September 27, 2010
Specialization: 
Applied Linguistics
Degree: 
Master of Arts
University: 
The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK
From Date: 
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
To Date: 
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Specialization: 
Theoretical Linguistics (Phonology)
Degree: 
PhD

Experiences

Affiliation: 
AlKharj College of Technology
From Date: 
Tuesday, July 4, 2006
To Date: 
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Position Title: 
Teacher of English
About Experience: 
I was employed as a teacher assistant in Phonetics and Phonology at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne while I was doing my PhD at the same university.
Affiliation: 
King Saud University, Teachers College
From Date: 
Sunday, August 10, 2008
To Date: 
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Position Title: 
Teacher Assistant
About Experience: 
Affiliation: 
School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics,The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, the UK
From Date: 
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
To Date: 
Monday, September 23, 2013
Position Title: 
Teacher Assistant
About Experience: 
Affiliation: 
Department of English Language and Literature, College of Arts, King Saud University
From Date: 
Monday, January 19, 2015
To Date: 
Position Title: 
Assistant Professor in Theoretical Linguistics (Phonology)
About Experience: 

Languages

Language: 
English
Level: 
Excellent
Language: 
French
Level: 
Good
Language: 
Arabic
Level: 
Official
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