English: Dr. Hanada Taha-Thomure Bio.

Dr. Hanada Taha-Thomure is currently Associate Dean of Bahrain Teachers’ College at the University of Bahrain. Previous to that she was the director of Arabic programs at the Language Acquisition Resource Center at the San Diego State University in California, USA. She is the director of Arabexpertise, an educational consulting group based in California, USA. She has taught Arabic language to native and non-native speakers in countries such as Lebanon, Bahrain, Sultanate of Oman, United Arab Emirates and the United States of America for the past twenty years. Dr. Taha-Thomure has trained thousands of Arabic language teachers, trainers and ministry officials in various countries within the context of international private and public schools and in international conferences. Dr. Taha-Thomure has developed many Arabic language instructional materials and scholarly works including: “Standards Based Instruction in the Arabic Language Classroom”, “Arabic language through Dialogue” Volumes 1, 2 and 3 for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers at the High School and College level using the communicative language approach. Dr. Taha-Thomure is involved in foundational work developing Arabic language standards for the Arab Thought Foundation and to the International School Services in charge of developing the first ever series of standards based Arabic language programs. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of New Orleans, USA in 2001 and MA in Educational Psychology from the American University of Beirut in 1996.

Selected Publications:

o Gebril, A. & Taha-Thomure, H. (Forthcoming). Arabic assessment. In Antony Kunnan (Ed.), The companion to Language Assessment (pp. xxx-xxx). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

o Taha-Thomure, H. (2011). Standards-Based Instruction in the Arabic Language Classroom (Taaleem Allugha Alarabiyyah Almabni ala AlMa’aayeer). Publisher: Academia International, Lebanon. ISBN: 978-9953-27-957-2

o Taha-Thomure, H. et al (2011). Arabic Language through Dialogue 1. Publisher: Montezuma University Press. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. ISBN: 978-0-7442-0708-8

o Taha-Thomure, H. & Hanish, S. (2010). Iraqi Dialect through Dialogue. Publisher: Montezuma University Press. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. ISBN: 978-0-7442-9741-6

o Taha-Thomure, H. (2010). Scribbles of an Arab Woman 1. Publisher: Montezuma University Press. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. ISBN: 978-0-9794921-3-6

o Taha-Thomure, H. & ElCheddadi, Y. (2009). Arabic Language through Dialogue 3. Publisher: Montezuma University Press. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. ISBN: 973-0-7442-9133-9

o Taha-Thomure, H. (2009). The Distinguished Arabic Language Program at the San Diego State University. Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language Journal: tafljournal.depaul.edu, Vol.1, no. 1, 2009.

o Taha-Thomure, H. (2008). The Status of Arabic language Today, in Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern. Volume: 1 Issue: 3 Page: 186 – 192. (Won Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009).