Research & Supervision

During my two decades of teaching and researching in the university, I have been actively engaged in research and supervision of Master's degrees and PhD dissertations both in terms of supervision and membership on viva discussions in the different universities of Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Below are some of the MA theses and PhD dissertations I have either supervised or examined in the past six years inside Sulaimani University and outside:

A. Selected Theses and Dissertations I have Supervised (more than 24 theses):

1. A Semantic Study of Markedness in English: A Cognitive Linguistic approach. MA thesis.

2. Cultural problems in English-Kurdish Translation. MA thesis

3. A Cognitive Semantic study of Polysemous Words in English. MA thesis.

4. Local Assimilation of consonants in English and Kurdish: An optimality theoretic approach. PhD dissertation.

5. A Cognitive Study of Prepositions in English. MA thesis.

6. Register-related Errors in University Students’ Writings in the English Departments of Salahaddin University-Erbil

7. The Translation of Metaphorical Expressions from English into Kurdish.

8. Adverb-adjective Collocations in English. MA thesis.

9. A Semantic Study of Conceptual Metaphors in English News Reports. MA thesis.

10. Persuasion Strategies in English TV English Interviews. MA thesis.

Currently, I am supervising three PhD students in Sulaimani University whose dissertations are as follows:

A Select number of Theses and Dissertations which I have examined as a viva discussion member (more than 80 in total):

1. A Pragmatic Analysis of Humor in Selected English Texts

2. A Task-based Approach to Teaching Writing to Kurdish EFL Learners at University Level.

3. A Contrastive Analysis of Genitive Constructions in English and Northern Kurdish .

4. Problems of English-into Kurdish Translation of Movie Subtitles.

5. Teachers and Students Perspectives on English Language Learning Strategies.

6. Face Management in Turn-taking in Selected English Television Interviews: A Sociopragmatic Analysis.

7. Assessing EFL Students’ Performance in Translating Idiomatic Expressions into Kurdish.

8. A Psycholinguistic Approach to Iconicity in English and Kurdish.

9. Problems of Translating Arabic Relational Processes into English.

10.Qualified Teachers in Creating Typical Language Learners in Sunrise Programme in Hawler City Schools.

11.A Functional Study of Affixes in Standard English and Kurdish.

12.A Cognitive Semantic Study of Some Neo-classical and Romantic Poems.

13.Curriculum, Syllabus and Approaches to Course Design with Reference to Sunrise Programme.

14.The Role of Register in Translation.

15.The Assessment of Testing Papers and Students Competence in Sunrise Programme in Kurdistan Schools.

16.A Study of Senior Students’ Communicative Competence.

17.Genericity in English.

18.Investigating Verb Complementation in The Written Performance of Kurdish EFL University L earners.

19.The Investigation of Hyperbole and Litotes in Selected English Political and Religious Texts.

20.Image Schemas in English and Kurdish Idioms.

21.Strategies for Translating Number Idioms from English into Kurdish.

22.An Investigation of Syntactic-Pragmatic Interface of Implicature and Inference-formation in the USA Presidential Press Conferences.

23.Hedging in English and Kurdish Editorials.

24.Investigating Praise and Dispraise Strategies in Selected English Dialogues: A Pragmatic-discoursal Perspective.