Mai Al-Khatib

PhD Candidate, Cognitive Science, University of Minnesota

I am a PhD candidate in Cognitive Science in the University of Minnesota. My research interests are mainly in language and cognition. My current work is on different modes of reasoning in late bilinguals when switching between native language and foreign language.

Education

  • MCS Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2007

  • MA Applied Linguistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, 2013

Conferences and showcases

  • Poster presentation: Autonomic arousal in a foreign language in the context of decision making. University of Minnesota International Graduate Student Showcase 2018.

  • Poster presentation: Autonomic arousal in a foreign language in the context of decision making. LSA 2019, New York.

  • Forthcoming Oral Presentation: FrameNet for Modeling Extraction from Coordinate Structures. UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference UKCLC 2020.

  • Forthcoming Poster Presentation of an abstract: FrameNet for Modeling Extraction from Coordinate Structures. The Cognitive Science Society COGSCI 2020

Publications

  • Al-Khatib M. & Fletcher C. R. (2019). Autonomic arousal in a foreign language in the context of decision making. Proceedings Linguistic Society of America 4. 25: 1-5.

  • Al-Khatib, M. (forthcoming). FrameNet for Modeling Extraction from Coordinate Structures

Classes taught/ TAed

  • Programming in C, Instructor, German Jordanian University (2010 - 2014)

  • Discrete Structures, Instructor, German Jordanian University (2011 - 2014)

  • Java Programming, Instructor, German Jordanian University (2013 - 2014)

  • Beginner Arabic, Instructor, University of Minnesota (2005 - 2006)

  • Writing with Digital Technologies, TA, University of Minnesota (2017 - 2018)

  • Introduction to Computational Linguistics, TA, University of Minnesota (2017 - 2020)

  • Semantics, TA, University of Minnesota (2019)

  • Introduction to Linguistics, TA, University of Minnesota (2018 -2020)