Lama Nassif

Associate Teaching Professor of Arabic Studies at CMU–Q

Bio

In 2022-2023, Lama Nassif was a teaching and learning resources fellow at Queen Rania Foundation (QRF) – Education Endowment Foundation in Amman, Jordan. She has previously taught Arabic, second language acquisition (SLA) and sociolinguistics at Williams College, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, The University of Texas at Austin and Middlebury College. From 2018-2019, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Nassif's research interests include noticing and attention in second language (L2) development, sociolinguistic development in L2 Arabic acquisition and the interface between L2 research and pedagogy. Her work appears in peer-reviewed, international journals. 

At CMU, Dr. Nassif primarily works on the university's campus in Doha, Qatar. 

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