HKU-Delaware Joint Seminar: Sociocultural awareness of international ELT policies: The case of a US-funded program in Morocco

[Special Interest Group for Translanguaging and Inclusive Education]

Dear Members of the SIG,

My colleague from HKU, Prof. Hamid Mirhosseini will be delivering a free online webinar with Adil Bentahar on the following topic: "Sociocultural awareness of international ELT policies: The case of a US-funded program in Morocco". Please see the below information and the attached poster for your reference. 

Speaker
Prof. Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini
Prof. Adil Bentahar

Time
10-11 AM (HK Time)

Location
Zoom (Register through the link: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9SvwHd1FhO1E4oS)

Chair
Prof. Lianjiang Jiang

About the Speaker
Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini is an Associate Professor at The University of Hong Kong. His research areas include the sociopolitics of language education, qualitative research methodology, and critical studies of discourse in society. His writing has appeared in journals including Applied Linguistics; Critical Inquiry in Language Studies; Language, Identity and Education; Language Teaching, and TESOL Quarterly. His books include Worldwide English Language Education Today: Ideologies, Policies and Practices (Routledge, 2020); Doing Qualitative Research in Language Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); and a forthcoming volume on Critical English Medium Instruction in Higher Education (Cambridge University Press).

Adil Bentahar is an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware’s English Language Institute, with a joint appointment with the School of Education. He usually teaches second language reading and English composition as well as teacher education (special) programs benefiting domestic and international teachers. As a faculty member of the MA-TESL program, Dr. Bentahar works with and advises pre- and in-service teachers interested in supporting multilingual learners in K-12 settings and higher education. His research includes L2 reading, EFL teaching in Morocco, and international student experience. Currently, he is investigating the impact of TV viewing and Internet browsing on Moroccan EFL teachers’ reading habits.

Best wishes,

Kevin Tai

Professor Kevin W. H. Tai

BA (Hons 1) (Newcastle, UK), MSc (Oxon), PhD (UCL), FHEA, FRSA

Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy Education 

Co-Director, Centre for Advancement in Inclusive and Special Education (CAISE)

Chair, Special Interest Group for Translanguaging and Inclusive Education, CAISE

Chair, Working Group for Research, Academic Unit of Language and Literacy Education

Faculty of Education

The University of Hong Kong

Honorary Research Fellow, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London

Editor, The Language Learning Journal (Routledge)

Assistant Editor, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Routledge)

Executive Guest Editor, Learning and Instruction (Elsevier)

Research Advisor, Cambridge Educational Research e-Journal

Awardee of RGC Early Career Award (ECA) (2023/24), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong

Email (HKU): kevi...@hku.hk

Email (UCL): kevin.tai@ucl.ac.uk  

Telephone: (852) 3917 6107

Website: https://web.edu.hku.hk/faculty-academics/kwhtai