ندى ناصر الغالي Nada AlGhali CV
Bio:
"The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits. "
Education
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 2014
Obtained a Masters degree in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching (with Merit)
King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA 2011
Obtained a Bachelor degree in English Translation, (Honors Degree and top ten students)
Parkland Girls High School, Leeds UK 2003-2006
Studied part of my high school in the UK then moved back to Saudi Arabia to gain my diploma.
Experience
Tucaff's first female coffee shop 2007
Established and directly managed Tucaff's first female coffee shop as a private business
Al Khaleej training and education Centre 2009
Part-time English teacher at Direct English during the summer vacation
The Saudi British Centre 2010 and 2011
Part-time English instructor during the summer vacation
Saudi Credit Bureau SIMAH 2011-2012
Data Quality Analyst
King Saud University – Preparatory Year Deanship 2013 –Current
Lecturer at the English Language Department
Professional Courses, Workshops and Conferences
- Organized The 4th Academic Meeting conference of the college of languages and translation (March 2010)
- Attended The International conference of teaching Arabic for non- native speakers (November 2009)
- Attended the (Make your own Destiny) workshop at COLT presented by SAAB Bank
- Participated in the 2nd Festival for the Committee of Children's Culture /2009.
- Participated in the National childhood Committee wing that was held in Riyadh's International Book Exhibition/2010
- Attended the Eurormoney Saudi Arabia Conference as a SIMAH quality analyst representative (2012).
- Volunteered in simultaneous translation during the ADHD Coaching Workshop (December 2011)
- Attended and participated in the International Conference of Text Linguistics and Speech analysis held in Agadir-Morocco (November 2012)
- Attended the CEA accreditation three day workshop as the Quality coordinator representing the English language department – Riyadh (February 2013)
- Attended the workshop organized by SUDLS KSU entitled “writing your proposal and research interests within your own vision” (October 2015)
- Participated in a course of “ designing your own home” presented by the reputed engineer Farah Alhumaidi. (October 2015)
Research and Academic Writing
- Translated a book entitled "Leadership Secrets" by Michael Heath as my Bachelor graduation project from English to Arabic.
- Translated from Arabic to English two researches for Dr.Nasser Alghali entitled:
"The impact of cultural context familiarity on second language readers' comprehension"
"Inferencing Unknown Words by L2 learners"
- Published thesis: “Foreign language anxiety and willingness to communicate. An investigation of the Saudi EFL classrooms at the Preparatory Year College of King Saud University”
- Presented a paper entitled “ Foreign language anxiety and willingness to communicate in the L2 classroom” at the International Conference on language learning IICLLDubai2016 , Dubai 2016, published: