Ghazi Abuhakema

Ghazi Abuhakema is a visiting assistant professor of Arabic and International Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont.

He received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Department of Foreign Language Education at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his M.A. in teaching English as a second language from St. Michael’s College (Burlington, Vt.). He earned a B.A. at al-Yarmouk University in Jordan after which he received a teaching certificate and translation diploma from Birzeit University, Palestine.

Ghazi is a native speaker of Palestinian Arabic and fluent in Modern Standard Arabic. He has taught various levels of Arabic at UT-Austin, Middlebury College and the Middlebury Arabic Summer Language School.

Ghazi is interested the role of culture in learning a foreign language and in theories of language acquisition. He is an ACTFL certified Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) tester. He is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, the International Honor Society in Education, American Association for the Teacher of Arabic (AATA), and Middle East Studies Association (MESA).

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