Director:
| Shaaban, Kassim A. |
| Professors: | Choueiri, Lina G.; Ghaith, Ghazi M.;
Shaaban, Kassim A. |
| Associate Professors: | Hanafi, Sari; Orfali, Bilal W. |
Assistant Professors:
| Allen, Ira J.; Avant, Doyle R.; Kelly, Niamh;
Majed, Rima; Nish, Jennifer M.; Vermy, A.
Michael; Zimmerman, Erin.
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CeLRT is currently inactive. For more information, please contact the Center Director.
The proposed functions of the Center are the following:
- Providing language practitioners with professional support through workshops, panel discussions, forums, seminars, and discussions
- Establishing connections with professional organizations and supporting their goals and mission
- Holding a biannual conference on different topics in theoretical and applied linguistics and related fields (sociolinguistics, language acquisition, pragmatics, and mass communication)
- Publishing an electronic journal that addresses generic language issues as well as issues specific to the language situation and language education in the Middle East region
- Working on offering new postgraduate degrees in language related areas such as Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, and Translation
- Offering consultation services in language-related areas
- Hosting visiting scholars and post-doctoral fellows
- Working on the establishment of new language-based interdisciplinary graduate programs at AUB, and
- Engaging in research in theoretical and applied linguistics and in language teaching and language learning