Position:
Lecturer in Arabic
Coordinator of Graduate Arabic Teaching
Faculty / College Address:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies / St Antony’s College
Email:
ashraf.abdou@ames.ox.ac.uk
Qualifications:
PhD Linguistics (University of Manchester)
MA Teaching Arabic as a Foriegn Language (The American University in Cairo)
MA Arabic Linguistics (Cairo University)
BA Arabic and Islamic Studies (Cairo University)
Research Interests:
Arabic linguistics
Arabic language pedagogy
Arabic phraseology
Arabic lexicography
Current Projects:
Integrating Grammar in the Arabic Curricula. To appear in The Handbook of Teaching and Learning Arabic Grammar: Theory, Practice and Research. London: Routledge.
Courses Taught:
Arabic Grammar
Media Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic
English-Arabic Translation
Recent Publications:
(2019) Corpora and the study of Arabic grammar. Journal of Arabic Studies, 12, KSA.
(2017) Corpora and the study of Arabic vocabulary. In Gebril, A. (Ed.) Handbook of applied linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(2016) Aspects of the syntactic behavior of Arabic idioms: A corpus analysis. In Journal of Arabic Linguistics,63, pp. 61-86. Heidelberg, Germany.
(2012) Arabic idioms: A corpus-based study. London: Routledge.
(2010) The semantic structure of Arabic idioms. In David Wood (Ed.), Perspectives on formulaic language in acquisition and communication. London: Continuum.
