Rania Habib

Program in Linguistics

The University of Florida

P.O. Box 115454

Gainesville, FL 32611

USA

E-mail: rhabib@ufl.edu

For more information, check Curriculum Vitae.

Education

 

            The University of Florida, Program in Linguistics, Gainesville, FL, USA

 

                        2005    M.A. in Linguistics. Thesis title: “The Role of Social Factors, Lexical Borrowing and Speech Accommodation in

                                    the Variation of [q] and [ʔ] in the Colloquial Arabic of Rural Migrant Families in Hims, Syria”

 

                        2005    Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language

 

                        2005-present   Ph.D. Candidate. Dissertation title: “The intersection of universal constraints and social constraints”.

                                                            Expected Graduation: May 2008

 

            Al-Baath University, Hims, Syria

 

                        2001    Teacher’s Training Course. The Institute of Languages

 

                        2000    Higher Studies Diploma in English Literary Studies. Department of English

 

                        1999    B.A. in English Literature. Department of English

 

                        Middlebury College, Arabic School, Middlebury, Vermont

 

2004        Arabic Instructor Training Seminar   

       

            Selected Awards, Honors and Distinctions

2007    The Outstanding International Student Award. UF, Gainesville, Florida

2007, 2006, 2005, & 2004      Certificate of Academic Achievement from The University of Florida for outstanding academic accomplishment in the academic year

2007    The Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship Finalist Award, accompanied with a monetary prize. UF, Gainesville, Florida

2006    Graduate School Travel Grant. UF, Gainesville, FL

                        2005    The American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Graduate Student Travel Scholarship to AILA 2005: The 24th World Congress of Applied Linguistics

 

                        2004    The Summer Travel Grant to the NMELRC Arabic Instructor Training Seminar, The National Middle Eastern Studies Language Resource Center, Emory University,

Atlanta, Georgia

 

                        2003    The Fulbright Scholarship to complete a Master’s degree in Linguistics for the academic years 2003-2005

 

Research Interests

 

  • Sociolinguistic variation and change with focus on Arabic phonology

 

  • The application of Optimality Theory and the Gradual Learning Algorithm to sociolinguistic variation and change

 

  • Intercultural pragmatics

 

  • Syntax with focus on Arabic sentence structure

 

Courses Taught

 

  • Fall 2007                                 ABT 3500: Arabic Culture. (Section 1148)

 

  • Fall 2007                                 ARA 3410: Advanced Arabic I. (Section 1859)

 

  • Fall 2007                                 ARA 4420: Arabic through the Texts. (Section 1129)

 

  • Summer-A 2007                      LIN 3010: Introduction to Linguistics. (Section 0656)

 

  • Spring 2007                             LIN 3010: Introduction to Linguistics. (Sections 8415 & 8418)

 

  • Fall 2006                                 LIN 3010: Introduction to Linguistics (Sections 2885 & 2888)

 

  • Spring 2005                             ARA 1121: Beginning Arabic II

 

  • Fall 2004                                 ARA 1120: Beginning Arabic I

 

  • Fall 2003 & Spring 2004         EAP 5845: Scholarly/Academic Writing

 

  • 2000-2003                               English for Specific Purposes; English as a Foreign Language; TOFEL; Specialized courses in Translation and English majors.

 

Currently Teaching

 

            ARA 4850 & LIN 4930: Structure of Standard Arabic. (Sections 0369 & 7009 respectively)

           

            ARA 3411: Advanced Arabic II. (Section 4818)

 

            ARA 4401: Fourth Year Arabic. (Section 0449)