Fouad Rashid Omer

In 2010, I earned my BA degree from the English Language Program at Duhok University, College of Arts. I began teaching the English language the next year and continued doing so through 2015. In 2017, I graduated from Girne American University in Cyprus with an MA in English Language Education. During the same academic year, I worked as a part-time teacher at the English Language at the College of Education-Akre at Duhok University for two years. 2019 was the start of my studies for my PhD in English Language Teaching at Cyprus International University, which I am still pursuing. In the spring semester of 2020 and the fall semester of 2021, I worked as a part-time instructor in the English Language Department of the College of Arts at Cihan University-Duhok. In the spring of 2022, I transferred to Erbil where I taught in the same department. It is worth noting that I have taught General English to freshmen at a number of universities and colleges, including the Hospital Management Department at Bardarash Technical Institute, the Nursing Department at Akre Technical Institute, and the Horticulture Department at Duhok Polytechnic University-Akre. In 2022, I began my full-time employment as an instructor at Knowledge University in the department of English Language Teaching, where I am still employed now.

Contact:

Full Name: Fouad Rashid Omer

Academic Rank: Assistant Lecturer

Qualification: MSc

Post: Coordinator

Department: English Language Teaching

Mobile phone: (+964) - (0) 750 763-5007

ORCID: Fouad Rashid Omar (0000-0002-8973-4523) (orcid.org)

Google Scholar Link: ‪Fouad Rashid Omar‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬

E-mail: fouad.omer@knu.edu.iq

Teaching:

Semantics
Pragmatics
Evaluation and Measurement
Language Testing
Poetry
Communication (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing)
Academic Debate
General Linguistics
19th Century Poetry
Literary Criticism
Late and Modern Poetry
Communicative skills
Comprehension
Introduction to Linguistics
Generative Syntax
Translation
Second Language Acquisition
Language Acquisition
Teaching Reading and Writing
Postmodern Novel

Selected Publications ... Click to see the ORCID-based CV

Journal Papers:

Articles

Mehmood, N., Bashir, R., & Omar, F. (2020). Lexical and trope analysis of short story eleven. Journal of Critical Reviews, 7(6), 1496-1510.
Omar, F. & Mekael, H. (2020). Investigating EFL teachers' attitudes towards the use of authentic materials in teaching English in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. European Scientific Journal, 16(23), 131-150.
Abdullah, K., & Omar, F. (2020). The impact of drama-based instruction of English on EFL students’ interpretation of implied meanings. PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/ Egyptology, 17(7), 5967 – 5991.
Omar, F. (2021). The observation of Leech’s politeness maxims in Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”: A sociopragmatic analysis. Qalaai Zanist Journal, 6(1), 920-932.
Omar, F.R., & Barzani, S.H.H. (2022). English writing errors of Kurdish EFL undergraduates: An error analysis. International Journal of Social Sciences and Educational Studies, 9(2), 256-266.
Omar. F. R. & Razı, Ö. (2022). Impact of instruction based on movie and TV series clips on EFL learners’ pragmatic competence: Speech acts in focus. Frontier in Psychology, 13:974757. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.974757

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Patents

Subbulakshmi, T., Omar, F., Agarwal, P., Agnihotr, K. Kumar, D., Saraswathi, D., Khan, N., Goel, A., Sofia, G., Palanimuthu, K., Sabarinathan, S., Manikandan, K. (2022). Deep learning technique to gauge between strengths and weaknesses of a person in handling emotional situations (India Patent No. 202241022413). Patentscope. https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=IN359995286&_cid=P21-L63M8M-04210-1.
Thomas, C., Vadivel, B., Omar, F., Mohammed, S., Shanmugam, N., Fatima, S., Paul, C., Girdharwal, N., Verma, M., Sharma, S., Preetham, k., Pimo, Er. (2022). Machine learning techniques in evaluation of web based instruction and cooperative learning on the students listing and speaking skill. (India Patent No. 202241032154). India. IN202241032154 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES IN EVALUATION OF WEB BASED INSTRUCTION AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING ON THE STUDENTS LISTING AND SPEAKING SKILL (wipo.int).

Portfolio and Continuous Academic Development

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