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English Language and General Studies Education in the United Arab Emirates

Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Perspectives

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  • Offers guidance for teacher educators on how to provide students with a deeper understanding of English language
  • Shares key, timely research on ELT from the UAE region
  • Showcases much of the innovative work being done in the region

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This book presents an up-to-date account of current English-language English teaching and General Studies practices in the UAE. The chapters, written by leading language teacher educators, feature theoretical and empirical aspects of teaching, learning, assessment as well as related research. Throughout the book, the link between theory and practice is highlighted and exemplified. This reader-friendly book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, researchers and administrators of English language and general studies programs in the UAE and beyond who wish to keep abreast of recent developments in the field.

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Empirical Perspectives

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dubai Men’s College, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Christine Coombe, Lana Hiasat

  • Higher Colleges of Technology, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Georgia Daleure

About the editors

Christine Coombe has a Ph.D in Foreign/Second Language Education from the Ohio State University.  She is currently Associate Professor of General Studies at Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai Men's Campus.  Christine has over 50 books in various topics in TESOL/ELT. Dr Coombe serves as the editor of the SCOPUS-indexed Q1 Brief Reports section of the Asia TEFL Journal (2016 to present).  Christine has lived and worked in the Gulf for the past 28 years.  She served on the TESOL Board of Directors as Convention Chair for Tampa 2006. Christine served as TESOL President (2011-2012). Christine’s recent honors include the British Council’s International Assessment Award (2013), being named to TESOL’s 50@50 which “recognizes professionals who have made significant contributions to the TESOL profession within the past 50 years” and  receiving the 2018 James E. Alatis Award which recognizes exemplary service to TESOL.  Her most recent honor was being named to the US Department of State’s 30@30 English language specialists in 2021.  This list recognizes English Language Specialists who have made an impact on the teaching and training of English language teachers around the world in the last 30 years. 

Lana Hiasat has a doctoral degree in educational leadership with a specialization in educational technology. She is currently Program Team Leader of the General Studies department at Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai Men’s Campus in addition to being Senior Lecturer. Lana is Senior Fellow HEA (SFHEA) and certified in future foresight, intercultural intelligence, emotional intelligence, and Kaizen Creativity. Lana has published in the areas of future foresight, emotional intelligence, smart learning, blended learning, educational leadership, intercultural intelligence, and online teaching and learning. Lana has served as the co-chair for several international conferences. She is a member of the Social Science Curriculum Development team, a taskforce to develop the national social sciences curriculum in the UAE and has developed a certified leadership course on emotional intelligence for educational leaders.  She is a proud Toastmasters communicator and leader.

Georgia Daleure is General Studies Dean at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) and Social Studies (KG1-G12 Advanced) Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the UAE Ministry of Education. Combining her love of history, social science, and humanities with an Ed. D. in Educational Leadership and professional certifications including future strategic foresight, forensic genealogy, and others, she leads projects to develop motivating curricula and engaging technology infused learning materials and delivery methods for students from KG through higher education.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: English Language and General Studies Education in the United Arab Emirates

  • Book Subtitle: Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Perspectives

  • Editors: Christine Coombe, Lana Hiasat, Georgia Daleure

  • Series Title: English Language Teaching: Theory, Research and Pedagogy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8888-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8887-4Published: 17 March 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8890-4Published: 18 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-8888-1Published: 16 March 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2662-432X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-4338

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 490

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Philosophy of Education, Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Literacy

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