Wael Zuraiq

Education

• Ph.D. student / Linguistics Department at The University of Kansas at Lawrence, 2001 to present.
• M.A. in Linguistics, Yarmouk University/Jordan,1999. M.A. thesis: Linguistic and Non-Linguistic factors influencing name giving in Jordan.
• B.A. in English Language and Literature (major), and Arabic language and Literature (minor): Yarmouk University/Jordan,1996.

Research interests

• Prosody
• Phonetics
• Psycholinguistics
• Arabic linguistics
• Second Language Acquisition

I am mainly interested in the production of lexical stress by native and nonnative speakers. I also study how native listeners perceive nonnative speakers. More on research.

Appointments

• Arabic Instructor at Department of African and African-American Studies/ The University of Kansas, Fall 2003 to present
  
  Courses taught
  Arab 110, elementary Arabic I, Fall 2004.
  Arab 120, elementary Arabic II, Spring 2005.
  Arab 210, intermediate Arabic I, Fall 2003.
  Arab 310, advanced Arabic I, Fall 2003.
  

• Teaching Assistant at Dept. of English Language and Literature, Hashemite University/ Jordan, Fall 2000 to Summer 2001
  
  Courses taught
  English 99, intermediate level.
  English 101, upper intermediate.
  English 102, advanced.
  English Phonetics, Undergraduate level.
  

• High School Teacher, Jordan, 1998 to 2000

Grants:

• Hashemite University Ph.D. Grant, Fall 2001 to Summer 2004.
• The University of Kansas Endowment Award, 2002.
• Research Assistantship/Yarmouk University, Spring 1997 – Fall 1998.
• Higher Education Council grant / Ministry of Higher education / Jordan, Spring 1993 to Spring 1996.

Presentations and Talks

1. Culture and Religion of North Africa: Summer Institute (June 2004). African and African American Studies/ The University of Kansas.

2. Acoustic correlates of English lexical stress. (Dec. 2004), Linguistics Dept. Colloquy/ The University of Kansas.

Papers

• Wael Zuraiq and Jie Zhang. Phonological assimilation in Jordanian Arabic. In Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics (submitted).

• The production of English lexical stress by advanced Arab learners of English. (ms.)