CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Name:      Neil BRATTON

2. Date:       04.05.35

3. Title:        Professor

4. Education:

5. Academic Titles:

6. Graduate Theses Supervised

6.1. M.A Thesis Supervised

More than 30 between 1968- 1975 at the (1) American University of Beirut. Center of English Language Research and Teaching (CELRT) (2) Cyprus International University (3) Girne American University

6.2. PhD thesis Supervised 

None

7. Publications

7.1. Articles published in SCI/SSCI/SCI Expanded/SSCI Expanded Journals

None

7.2. Articles published in peer reviewed international journals

None

7.3. Papers delivered in international conferences and printed as proceeding

None

7.4 Books and chapters in books published internationally

      None

7.5 Articles published in per reviewed national journals

      “Arabic hamzatu-l-wasl: an alernative explanation.”(1989)

      Journal of English vol.17, 1989

      Sana’a University Publications

      “A revised humenical system for teaching The pronunciation of English vowels.” The

      English Journal. Sana’a University Publications,1989

7.6 Papers delivered at national conferences and printed as proceedings

      None

7.7 Books and chapters in books published nationally

      None

7.8 Other publications (Periodical or non-periodical)

Single Conferences

      Adult English for National Development(1974) Beirut (Conference Director)

      AU Arab countries attended except Oman and Iraq.

8.   Projects directed and participated

      Director, English Language Project 1975-1986

      Ministry of Education, Doha, Qatar. Result: Crescent  English Course.

     Textbooks for eight years published by Oxford University Press.

9.   Administrative designations

      Director, Center for English Language Research and Teaching (CELRT)

      American University of Beirut.

      Head ELT Department EUL, CIU, GAU. Deen, Arts and Science EUL

      Dean of Arts & Sciences. Lefke University, 1997

      Director UNESCO/UNDP Language Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan (199-1992)

      Director, Centre for English Lnguage Research and Teaching American University of

      Beirut,1970-1974

10. Membership in scholarly institutions

      BAAL    British Association of Applied Linguistics

      LSA        Linguistic Society of America

      TESOL   Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

11. Honors and Awards

      Rockefeller Scholarship for postgraduate study 1964-1967

C. CONSULTANCIES

1970      UNIVERSITY OF NORTH AFRICA ASSOCIATION,    Morocco,

              Washington D.C.

              Designing English curricula for the intensive English and BA TEFL

              Programmes for the projected University of Tangier (Report)

1972      USAID, Kabul, Afghanistan.

              Survey of English Language teaching in Afghanistan and recommendations

1973      BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (Foreign Office), Beirut,

              Lebanon.

              Critique on the teaching methodology employed at the Middle East Center

              For Arabic Studies (MECAS) at Shemlan.

1974      FORD FOUNDATION, Beirut, Lebanon

              Conference Director:Adult English for National Development attended by most

              Arab countries except Iraq and Oman and the first conference outside Europe

              on what is now called “English for Special Purposes”

1975      MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, Kuwait.

              A comprehensive survey of English language use and teaching in Kuwait

              Incorporating the results of two MA theses by Kuwaiti teachers which I

              Supervised at the American University of Beirut. (200 page report)

              FORD FOUNDATION, Beirut, Lebanon

              Set up an ESP programme at the Law Faculy, Lebanese University.

              MAQASSED FOUNDATION, Beirut, Lebanon

              Set up English Language programme for the Amaliyyah Technical School

1993-4   UNESCO short-term consultancies.

              Ajman (UAE) Tripoli, Libya, Chief of Mission and report writer.

D. PUBLICATIONS

1.  “Descriptive Writing” section of A Freshman English Reader, American

       University of Beirut.

2.    Editor (with Dr. Suheil Bushrui)

            a) Amin Rihani manuscript on A Thousand and One Nights. American

             University of Beirut.

b) John Millington Synge (a centenary annotated photographic biography)

             American University of Beirut.

3. “A Simplified phonetic analysis of English vowels for teaching purposes”

      The English Journal English Language Center, University of Sana’a.(1990)

4. “hamzat – ul – wasl”: an alternative analysis – a preliminary example of syllable

    mending rules in classical Arabic phonology” The Journal of English,

    Department of English, University of Sana’a, Yemen.(1989)

    (In progress)           

a)     “The so-called pronominal n’ in Turkish: an

alternative analysis”

b)     (book) English and Turkish compared : phonology,

morphology and syntax. A textbook for a course in Contrastive Analysis.

EXTRA – MURAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES (1961-74)

USIS, AMMAN, Jordan

Summer EFL teacher training

UNWRA, Sibline, Lebanon

Summer EFL training for Palestinian teachers

BIR ZEIT COLLEGE, Jordan

External English Examiner

LEBANESE UNIVERSITY

Visiting lecturer

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, Kuwait

Course designer and external examiner for senior teachers and inspectors—pre-requisite

courses for MA (TEFL) at AUB

LANGUAGES

English: native speaker

French: good (spoken and written)

Arabic: fair (spoken and written)