Teaching in Lebanon

  Last year,  an interview on the potential of AI to propagate an individual’s consciousness in the cloud after death grabbed my attention. ...

This past fall semester, I trialed a 5-week COIL in my Technical English class, where my students connected with students in a course at Oak...

  While my previous blog post was about the Cambridge word of the year for 2025, this post will reflect on words of the year from three othe...

This week the Cambridge Dictionary announced its word of the year: parasocial . It is a relatively new addition to the dictionary whose loo...

I recently exclaimed to my students that the seemingly compulsive background noise that some of them frequently made in class sounded like a...

What university students apparently want just after graduation is a good job or further study as a foundation for a solid career. Few seem t...

Another brilliant diagram that caught my attention today is a Venn diagram created by Katy Higgins Lee, a psychotherapist and counselor. Dep...

As part of a lesson on integrating visuals in technical communication, I recently shared with my students a brilliant diagram I had come acr...

In the past year, I published a few blog posts on Noam Chomsky, the father of modern linguistics, whose ingenious theory of Universal Gramma...

This year’s word of the year for Lebanon should be "resilience" in my view. People stayed put while huge explosions went off a few...

  During Covid times, with the pandemic impacting education, I blogged about the need for teaching resilience after UNESCO had recognised th...

Mentioning LinkedIn to my first-year undergraduate students often elicits blank looks, as if they have not heard of the site. While highly a...

Noam Chomsky was one of the pioneers of computational linguistics in the 1950s. According to the IEEE Computer Society History Committee, he...

News of Noam Chomsky’s recent ill health has caused quite a stir lately. Writing a short blog post about the father of modern linguistics wi...

The term scholasticide has recently gained currency in the media though it is not new. Apparently, it was coined in 2009 by Oxford Professo...

  When micro-blogging, typified by Twitter, went viral, for many of us that sounded like a death knell for traditional blogging. The spread ...

The American musician Riley King has been quoted as saying, “The beautiful thing about education is that no one can take it away from you.” ...

Studying the emerging trends in higher education, the salient ones include the rise of blended and hybrid models, along with better integrat...

My first-year composition students recently wrote essays  on their former experiences with “voice” in writing. Most of them, except a very s...

  The internet has made dictionaries more accessible to all globally. However, the online dictionaries clearly vary in credibility. Rather t...