Prof. Abbas Mustafa Abbas(PhD)

Biography 

Professor Dr. Abbas Mustafa Abbas

PhD in English Language and Linguistics ( Pragmatics)

Dr. Abbas Mustafa Abbas is a Professor at College of Basic Education-Sulaimani/ University of Sulaimani, Iraq-Kurdistan. His PhD is in Theoretical Linguistics (Pragmatic Politeness with Reference to English and Kurdish) and Abbas primarily considers himself an educationalist and practitioner. He has experience of formal and informal education in the Kurdistan region from basic education study to PhD levels. His varied employment path has also seen his work in fields, translation, Linguistic laboratories, and teaching phonetics. His teaching and research interests are in theoretical linguistics ,contrastive analysis and comparative study (Making Comparison studies in English and Kurdish).

Contact details

Formal name

Abbas Mustafa Abbas

Title:  Professor  Dr.

Preferred personal name

Abbas

Job title

Professor at College of Basic Education at University of Sulaimani  

Contact details at work:

College of Basic education

University of Sulaimani/ Sulaimani

Iraqi Kurdistan Region/ Sulaimani

dr.abbasmust67@yahoo.com or abbas.abbas@univsul.edu.iq

Mobile:

    +964770 1574029

   +964750 1574029

Tel:

Office; 

Preferred email for communication for this project: 

abbas.abbas@univsul.edu.iq 

Line manager/ Head of Department details

I am directly responsible to the  Head of English Dept. /College  of  Basic Education/ University of Sulaimani, Who will support you officially?

University of Sulaimani will support me officially.

Who approves your activities?

President of University of Sulaimani,Dr. Kosar Muhammed Ali

Dean of  College  of  Basic Education Dr. Hasan Fahkradeen Xalid

Head of English Department, Dr. Baxtiar Sabr Hama

Support and development networks

The web communications officer (Karzan Tahir) will offer advice and support on e-learning and communication. I may need to approach Administration Team for admin support

Current membership of University Committees and Research Groups

I am currently a member of:

Scientific Committee in English Department.

Head of the Department Council of  English Department.

Current external group membership:

Kurdistan Academic Society

Kurdistan Teachers’ Union

Academic Center for National Studies (ACNS)

Background in supporting student learning

Outline any past supervisory or mentor responsibilities (at Masters level or above)

I supervised 20 twenty MA students and 5 five PhD students .

Current teaching and learning responsibilities

I mainly work with research students in the English Department. I give translation and  pronunciation subjects to students of English Department – College of Basic Education /University of Sulaimani.

Outline Teaching and Learning experience

I have been involved in teaching and learning for 31 years. I have taught English to preparatory school, methodology to students of teachers’ central institute, pronunciation and English grammar to undergraduates and phonetics, Sociolinguistics, Language,Culture and Communication to postgraduates.

Relevant Qualifications and awarding body

PhD in English language and Linguistics (Pragmatics), MA in Morphophonemics in English Language, Teacher Training Course (teaching qualification) – University of Sulaimani

English Teacher Training Course- Huddersfeild Technical College in UK (funded by British Council) The Course was about:

1-Teaching and Learning Techniques

2- Teaching Methodology

3- Teaching the Four Skills

4-Testing and Assessment

5-ILT as a Teaching Aid

6-Design and Production of Web/VLE Teaching Resources

Research Interests

My research interest includes the following fields :

Thirty Four (34) Different Researches:

My Papers 14-1-2026:

1.       The Effects of Direct and Indirect Corrective Feedback on Accuracy in Second Language Writing

AMAHM Tawfeeq

English Language Teaching DOI:10.5539/elt.v11n6p33 11 (No. 6 (2018)), 33-40

2.       Conditional Sentences in English and Kurdish: A Contrastive Study

AM Abbas

Al-Fatih journal 8 (50), 40-66

3.       The role of written corrective feedback in improving Kurdish EFL university students’ writing

HM Tawfeeq, AM Abbas

Journal of University of Human Development 4 (4), 61-74

4.       Challenges in ELT practicum: Views and perceptions of pre-service teachers

LB Karim, AM Abbas

Journal of Language Studies 8 (6), 168-182

5.       Nominal compounds in English and Kurdish: A comparative study

AM Abbas

Journal of Language Studies 4 (3), 74-94

6.       Literary Stylistics: Literature and Language " The Significance of Language in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot"

MN Hasan, CH Khdhir

AuthorHouse

7.       Adjectival Phrases in English and Kurdish: A Contrastive Study

AM Abbas

Journal of Lnguage Studies 2 (4), 91-114

8.       A Semantic Study of Idioms in English and Kurdish

AM Abbas

Kirkuk University 7 (3), 13-27

9.       Investigating Assessment Tools Used for Learning in Sunrise Textbook in High Schools of Sulaimani City

AM Abbas, FF Chragh

Journal of University of Babylon 28 (5)

10.   Contrastive Analysis of Stress in English and Kurdish

AMARS Ahmad

Alustath, 45-66

11.   AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF CODE-SWITCHING IN EFL CLASSROOMS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL

PDAMARA Abdulla

Journal of Language Studies 8 (6), Pages (77-102)

12.   University of Sulaimani: Unpublished MA Thesis "AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF CODE-SWITCHING IN EFL CLASSROOMS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL"

PDAMARA Abdulla

UNIVERSITY OF SULAIMANI: Unpublished Thesis

13.   Language Management in Iraqi Kurdistan

AM Abbas, MS Saeed

Journal of Language Studies DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.1.4 3 (Vol …

14.   Investigating English as a Foreign Language in Planning, Designing and Developing Curriculum at Kurdistan Universities

TK Omer, AM Abbas

Journal of Language Studies 6 (No.4, 2023), (115-125)

15.   Investigating Kurdish EFL Students’ Translation of Metaphorical Expressions at the University Level

AMABA Rasul

UNIVERSITY OF SULAIMANI:Unpublished Thesis

16.   Investigating Principles and Models of Curriculum Development in some Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Universities through Teachers’ Point of view

AITK Omer, AM Abbas

Journal of Language Studies. 6 (2), 123-141

17.   An Investigation into Kurdish EFL Instructors’ Intercultural Communicative Competence in Sulaimani Province Universities

BH Mawlood, AM Abbas

Journal of the University of Garmian 6 (2), 310-319

18.   The Significance of Language in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

AM Abbas, MN Hasan

19.   The Concept of Pragmatic politeness with Reference to English and Kurdish

AM Abbas

University of Sulaimani

20.   زمانی نەرم لە پەیوەندی و گوتاردا‎

پ. د.عەباس مستەفا عەباس‎

گۆڤاری زمان و زار: زمانی نەرم لە پەیوەندی و گوتاردا 18, 65-80‎

21.   THE ATTITUDE OF BASIC SCHOOL EFL TEACHERS AND SUPERVISORS TOWARDS THE PROCESS OF SUPERVISION IN SULAIMANI CITY

CT Omer, AM Abbas

JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 8 (5), 325-353

22.   THE ATTITUDE OF BASIC SCHOOL EFL TEACHERS AND SUPERVISORS TOWARDS THE PROCESS OF SUPERVISION IN SULAIMANI CITY: Unpublished MA Thesis, University of Sulaimani 2024

DAMACTO Salih

University of Sulaimani, Unpublished Thesis

23.   Prepositional Meaning in English and Kurdish

AM Abbas, PHS Sabir

Journal of Language Studies DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.4.1.5. 4 (No …

24.   Explicit Frameworks to Teach Spoken Discourse Markers: Present-Practice-Produce and Illustration-Interaction-Induction

RAH Mohammed, AM Abbas

Journal of Language Studies 7 (1), 65-72

25.   AN ASSESSMENT OF KURDISH EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE PRODUCTIVE SKILLS: AN APPLIED-DISCOURSAL STUDY

PDAMARAH MOHAMMED

UNIVERSITY OF SULAIMANI Unpublished Dissertation

26.   The Role of Humour in Motivating EFL University Students in Sulaimani City

AM Abbas, HM Tawfeeq

Journal of Language Studies 6 (4 part 2), 48-69

27.   WRITTEN AND SPOKEN DISCOURSE MARKERS: ATTITUDES OF KURDISH EFL UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTORS

AM Abbas, Rizgar Ahmed Haji Mohammed

Journal of Language Studies 6 (Issue 3 (Part 1)), Pages 30-51

28.   AN INVESTIGATION INTO KURDISH EFL INSTRUCTORS’ INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN SULAIMANI PROVINCE UNIVERSITIES

BHM DR. ABBAS MUSTAFA ABBAS

Unpublished Thesis

29.   Language and the Political Condition of the Largest Stateless Nation of the World

MS Saeed, AM Abbas

Journal of Zankoy Sulaimani-Part B/for Humanities No 58, 395-402

30.   THE SEMANTIC EFFECT OF SUPRASEGMENTAL FEATURES IN ENGLISH

MHSAM Abbas

UNIVERSITY OF SULAIMANI https://www.researchgate.net/publication …

31.   دیوی ناوەوەی خەیاڵەکانی سەدام‎

پ.د.عەباس مستەفا عەباس‎

چاپخانەی سەردەم‎

32.   The Kurds EFL Learners' Ability to Recognize English Consonant Clusters

AM Abbas

Alustath, 869-900

33.   عێراق وكورد: شه‌ڕی‌ یه‌كلاكه‌ره‌وه‌ له‌سه‌ر كه‌ركووك‎

پ.د.عه‌باس مسته‌فا عه‌باس‎

چاپخانەی سەردەم‎

34.   The Effect of Cooperative Learning Techniques on Students' Achievement in English Grammar

BY Jasim, AM Abbas

ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, (761-784)