Dawn Rogier

Assessment Supervisor
English Language Center
Zayed university Dubai, UAE
"Teaching Vocabulary in the English Language Classroom"

Dawn Rogier, is the Assessment Supervisor for the Academic Bridge Program at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. She has been working in the field of EFL and ESL for the past fifteen years and has also taught in Mali, Zaire, Japan, USA, and Romania. Her research interests include vocabulary acquisition, world English's, and sociocultural implications of textbook design

Dr. Leni Dam

Educational advisor
Former Educational advisor and INSET teacher trainer
University College, Copenhagen
"Trends and Practices in Teaching and Learning: Focus on Learning rather than Teaching"

In the early seventies, Leni Dam took the first steps towards developing learner autonomy in language teaching and learning in her own classes at secondary school level in Denmark. In 1979, her experiments at school level were combined with a post as educational adviser for in-service teacher training and school development at University College, Copenhagen. The post provided excellent opportunities for implementing the principles of learner autonomy achieved from working with school kids into teacher education, including work with adult immigrants and refugees learning Danish as a second language. From 1993 till 1999 she was co-convenor of the scientific commission of learner autonomy within AILA. During the same years she carried out the LAALE research project (Language Acquisition in an Autonomous Learning Environment) together with Lienhard Legenhausen, Münster University. In 2004, she was awarded an honorary doctor’s degree in pedagogy from Karlstad University, Sweden. In August 2007, she stopped her official duties and is now freelance. Over the years, Leni Dam has published widely and given numerous lectures and workshops in as well as outside Denmark on learner autonomy, teacher education, and school development.

Maureen Franks

ELT consultant
English Advisor-Projects
British Council, Riyadh
"Project Based Learning-The Rationale for This Approach"

Maureen Franks has been involved in education since 1973. She has worked in the UK, Brunei Darussalam, Dubai and now the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Maureen has worked in Primary, Secondary, Vocational and University sectors as a principal, curriculum writer, teacher trainer, manager and mentor.

She believes in learner autonomy and life long learning and brings a positive attitude to all that she does.

Dr. Sena Maherzi’s

Assistant Professor
English & Translation Department
Effat College, Jeddah
"Teacher’s communicative style and motivation to study English as a foreign language"

Dr. Maherzi is an Assistant Professor in English & Translation Department at Effat College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She received a B. A. in English from the University of Tunis in 1989, and an M.A. in Translation (French to English) from the University of Tunis in 1991. She obtained an M.A. in Second Language Education at the Faculty of Education of the University of Montreal in 1995, and a Ph. D. in Second Language Education at the Faculty of Education of the University of Montreal in 2000. She worked as a part-time English teacher in two Canadian Language institutes. She worked as an Assistant professor in King Saud University (COLT, Riyadh), and Prince Sultan University (Riyadh) where she received an award for the quality of her teaching. Her main interest is the relationship between motivation and second / foreign language learning based on Deci & Ryan’s (1985) Social Cognitive theory, i.e. the relationship between students’ perceptions of the classroom environment (their teacher), and their motivation (extrinsic, intrinsic, amotivation) to study English as a foreign language. At Effat College, she supervised the first student workshop on tips for successful interviews, compiled a check list for teacher evaluation and a student evaluation scale, as well as a checklist for speeches and oral presentations. She submitted two articles, one in English and one in French to The Canadian modern Language Review. She has started replicating her study to Effat students and has the intention of expanding it to the whole Kingdom.

Dr. Mona Suri

Head /Associate Professor
Department of Art & Design
Royal University for Women, Bahrain
"Thrust Areas of Research In Art & Design"

Dr. Mona Suri completed her Graduation, Masters and Doctoral work in Fabric and Apparel Science, from Delhi University, India. She was a Reader in the Department of Fabric & Apparel Science, Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, India. She has a teaching experience of more than nineteen years in teaching graduate and post graduate programs at Delhi University, New Delhi, India. Dr. Suri has been actively involved in research and teaching. She has been a guest faculty at the Fashion Design department at National Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi, India. She has authored many research papers, chapters in text books for NCERT, CBSE and modules for International Labour Organisation.

Dr. Mona Suri has guided till date 33 M.Sc. Dissertations, Two Ph.D. students have submitted their thesis to the Delhi University, India and three Ph.D. scholars are presently working in different areas of Textiles and Clothing. She has many publications, presentations and awards to her credit. Her areas of interest are design, fabrics, garment technology, innovations in design and Research methodology. Dr. Mona Suri joined the Royal University for Women, Bahrain in September 2008. She is presently heading the department of Art & Design and is teaching both Foundation and the BA students. She is presently teaching Information & Research, Fashion Design- Concepts & Principles, Fashion Techniques Development, and Applied Design at the graduate level.

Dr. Wendy James

Associate Professor
College of Business Sciences
Zayed University,UAE
"A comparative study of the effect of web-based versus traditional ethics instruction in accounting"

Dr Wendy James is a fully certified management accountant and currently works as an associate professor at Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Prior to taking up this position Dr James was employed at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, where she was also involved with the Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies. Dr James has a wealth of experience in teaching in both financial and management accounting fields as well as information systems and has taught at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at a number of universities in Queensland, including Griffith University, University of Southern Queensland and Bond University. Dr James has also been involved in a number of management and research positions both in industry and the public sector. Current research interests include: ethics in education, management accounting systems, management control systems, performance management systems, organisational change, public sector financial management and strategic management accounting in the private, public and not for profit sectors.

Dr. Barbara Denise Harold

Associate Professor
Director Zayed Institute of Professional Education
College of Education
Zayed University, UAE
"The inquiring teacher: how practitioner research leads to better teaching"

Dr. Barbara Harold is the Dubai campus Director of the Zayed Institute for Professional Education in the College of Education at Zayed University and has taught in Dubai for almost 8 years. During the last 20 years she has worked at universities in New Zealand, Seattle and the UAE and has presented at conferences in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, UAE and the USA. At the undergraduate level she has taught courses in language curriculum, classroom practice, assessment, and entering the profession. At the graduate level she has taught courses in educational leadership, and school-community relationships. In the UAE she has undertaken professional development workshops and research on the school practicum, mentor teachers, evaluation of teacher performance, and is currently engaged in research on the teaching of reading. Her professional expertise is in the fields of educational leadership, school reform, assessment and evaluation, school-community relationships, teacher professional learning, and qualitative research methods.