Greetings and welcome to my e-portfolio! My name is Zakaria Fahmi and I am a Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant at the University of South Florida. 

As a researcher, I am interested in language ideology, languaculture, language contact, and critical social approaches to multilingualism. Other areas of interest include corpus linguistics, critical pedagogy, and ELF. 

In my research, I have looked at examples of linguistic rivalry in Arabic (i.e., standard vs. colloquial), examining their discursive formation in media texts, using modern diachronic corpus-assisted discourse approaches (MDCAD). I have also examined the way promotional discourses of study abroad language programs from the perspective of host institutions assist in the (re)production of cultural realities and identity work (i.e., cultural self and other). Currently, my dissertation project examines cultural representation in modern standard Arabic (MSA) textbooks, interrogating the degrees of criticality rendered to Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) in the US context, the effects of the standard language ideology (SLI), and the overall cultural politics of language textbooks. Adopting a mixed method of content (i.e., additive culture) and languaculture (i.e., discourse-oriented culture), this direction helps to comprehensively discern the representational practices and the underlying discursive meanings as informed by language ideology.