Iman M Mahfouz , Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor, Vice Dean for Education Affairs

Biography
Education
Affiliation
Honours & Awards
Field Of Interest
Work Experience
Publications
Research Indicators
Funds and Projects
Teaching
Courses
Others

Biography

  • Dr. Iman Mahfouz earned her PhD degree in linguistics from the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University. She currently holds the position of associate professor and Vice Dean at the College of Language and Communication (CLC) at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in Alexandria. She has published a number of papers and participated in several conferences in the fields of Computer-assisted text analysis (CATA) as well as Computer-mediated discourse (CMD). Her research interests also include discourse analysis, translation studies and TEFL.

    Current Job
    Lecturer and Vice Dean for Education Affairs – College of Language and Communication (CLC) - Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST)

    2005 – 2012
    Assistant lecturer - Institute for Language Studies (ILS) -(AAST)

    Part-time English language instructor at the following institutions:
     1999 - 2005
    ILS – AAST
    Nautical Department coordinator, Linguistic Circle coordinator
     2003 - 2005
    Centre for Adult and Continued Education (CACE) – AAST
     2003 - 2004
    Alexandria Hilton Green Plaza
     2002 – 2003
    Seamen Training Centre – AAST
     Summer 1999
    Summer School – CACE
     1999 - 2000
    Sadat Academy for Management Sciences
     1998 – 1999
    Port Training Institute - AAST

     Translator of the book Scientific Research, by Dr. Gamal Abu Shanab
     Participated in translating the AAST website
     Part time translator at the Centre of Language and Translation,
    Alexandria University (2000 – 2001)

Courses Added

Courses Added
CourseAcademic yearTerm

AT124 - ESP II AR

2004 Fall View All Content
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ET124 - ESP II ENG

2004 Fall View All Content
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LCD484 - Literary Texts (Translation Project)

2016 Spring View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LCF121 - Phonetics

2014 Spring View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LCG111 - Grammar

2013 Fall View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LCL113 - Listening

2016 Fall View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LCL351 - Linguistics 2 (syntax)

2016 Fall View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LH131 - ESP 1

2005 Fall View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LH132 - ESP 2

2002 Fall View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LH192 - ENGLISH FOR BUSINESS (1)

1999 Fall View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LH231 - Technical Report Writing

2004 Fall View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LH231T - ESP III

2002 Spring View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LI171 - Maritime English (1)

2011 Fall View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LI172 - Maritime English (2)

2012 Spring View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

LI273 - Maritime English (3)

2006 Spring View All Content
- Lectures Notes - Exams - Course Outline - Problem Sets - tutorials - Lab Material

Funds and Projects

  • none
    none
    Funded Project

Work Experience

  • Certified Examiner, Jan 2012 - up till now
    Marlins
  • English language teacher, Jan 2002 - Jan 2003
    Hilton Alexandria Green Plaza
  • part-time translator , Jan 2000 - Jan 2001
    Centre of Language and Translation
    Alexandria University
  • lecturer and coordinator, Sep 1999 - up till now
    Institute for Language Studies (ILS)
    AAST
  • English language teacher, Jan 1999 - Jan 2004
    Centre for Adult and Contiued Education (CACE)
    AAST
  • English language teacher, Jan 1999 - Jan 2000
    Sadat Academy for Management Sciences
  • English language teacher, Jan 1998 - Jan 1999
    Port Training Institute
    AAST

Education

  • PhD in Linguistics and translation, Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University, Feb 2012
  • M.A. in Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University , Jan 2003
  • B.A. in Language and translation section, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, May 1998

List of Publications

    • Dr. Iman Mahfouz, "Analysis of Errors in the Transcription of Simple English Vowels (Monophthongs) by Egyptian Phonetics Students" , Alexandria University, Journal of Faculty of Education , 2017.
            Read Abstract Download PDF
           
    • Dr. Iman Mahfouz, "A Computer-assisted Analysis of Political Speeches: Morsi vs. Obama" , Alexandria University, Bulletin of Faculty of Arts, June, 2017 , 2017.
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    • Dr. Iman Mahfouz, "Variation in Arabic transliteration of English words on Twitter: A corpus-based approach" , Ain Shams University, Faculty of Education, Scientific Bulletin, vol.23, no.3 , 2017.
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    • Dr. Iman M. Mahfouz, "Analysis of Errors in the Phonetic Transcription of English Consonants by Egyptian Undergraduate Language Students" , Alexandria University, Faculty of Education, Vol. no. 26, issue no. 6 , 2016.
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    • Dr. Iman M. Mahfouz, "Gender differences in English comments on Egyptian Facebook pages" , Alexandria University, Bulletin of Faculty of Arts, Issue no. 81 -2016 , 2016.
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    • Dr. Iman M. Mahfouz, "Arabic Transliteration of English in Egyptian Tweets: An Exploratory Study" , Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, Cairo Studies, English Department Journal, 2016 , 2016.
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    • Iman Mahfouz, "Analyzing Egyptian Blogs Written in English" , Alexandria University (2012) .
           
           
    • Iman Mahfouz, "An analysis of some syntactic errors in the output of two Selected English Arabic machine translation systems" , Alexandria University (2003) .
           
           

Affiliation

  • none

Teaching

  • Linguistics

    Grammar

    Phonetics
    English for engineering

    English for business

    English for nautical students

    English for logistics

    English for marine ratings

    English for hotels and catering

    Technical report writing

    Presentation skills

Fields of Interest

  • Text linguistics - Computational linguistics - Discourse analysis - ESP - TEFL - Translation
  • Linguistics
  • Computer-mediated discourse (CMD)
  • Computer-assisted text analysis (CATA)

Research Indicators

Honours & Awards

  • Arabic Cup
    Highest Arabic mark - EGC class of 1994
  • BA of English Language and Literature
    with honours - ranked first on 1998 class
  • Meridi El Nahas Cup
    First place on literature section - EGC class of 1994

Others

  • Playing music
    Jogging, aerobics
    Reading
    Baking

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