Doctor Deema Al Abdullah
Faculty Member
Certifications
1- Doctorate in Modern Language Sciences “Applied Linguistics” with honors - University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France - 2010.
2- Diploma in in-depth studies in “Literatures, Humanities and Civilizations” with a very good grade - University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France - 2003.
3- Postgraduate Diploma in Arts with Excellent - Tishreen University - 2000.
4- Bachelor’s degree in French Literature with an excellent degree - Tishreen University - 1998.
Languages
Arabic.
English.
French.
Courses
1- ICDL.
2- A training course to qualify teachers (PROF-FORM) - Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA), Besançon - France.
3- An intensive training course to qualify teachers in using teaching curricula - Educational Documentation Center CDP - Damascus
Skills
Practical experiences:
1- School at the Arab Private University for Science and Technology - Faculty of Languages and Translation - French language teaching skills 1+2.
2- School at Al-Baath University - Department of French Language in the College of Arts and Human Sciences (Applied Linguistics - Written Comprehension and Expression, S1 and S2 - Oral Comprehension - Civilization and Thought - Introduction to the Fundamentals of Research -
Written expression - methods of teaching the French language - translation - scientific research methodology - grammar and morphology - general linguistics 4+3 - linguistics and phonetics).
3- Teacher at the Higher Institute of Languages in Homs (text linguistics - teaching written skills - teaching methods - evaluation and measurement - phonetics and phonetic evaluation - teaching French for specialized purposes - designing and criticizing curricula for teaching the French language - linguistics)
4- School of Open Education / Department of French Language / Al-Baath University (French grammar - French civilization - terminology and dictionaries - semantics and vocabulary - writing a French article - phonetics - simultaneous translation - 2 + 1 consecutive translation - perspective translation - analysis of French texts).
5- School at the Second College of Arts/Tartous (Translation - Civilization and Thought - Introduction to the Fundamentals of Research - Written Expression - Grammar - Introduction to Linguistics - Applied Linguistics - General Linguistics 3+4).
6- Assistant teacher at Saint Anatoile High School - France.
7- Teaching assistant in the French Language Department - Al-Baath University.
8- Holding strengthening and conversation courses in the French language, Future Horizons Institute - Tartous.
9- Holding strengthening and conversation courses in the French language, Future Horizons Institute - Tartous.
10- French language teacher at Banias Arts High School.
Administrative positions:
1- Representative of the Teachers Syndicate at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences - Al-Baath University - Homs 2012.
2- Head of the French Language Teaching Department at the Higher Institute of Languages - Al-Baath University - Homs 2013.
3- Head of the French Language Department at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences - Al-Baath University - Homs 2014.
4- Head of the French Language Department at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences - Al-Baath University - Homs 2015.
5- Head of the French Language Teaching Department at the Higher Institute of Languages - Al-Baath University - Homs 2016.
6- Head of the French Language Teaching Department at the Higher Institute of Languages - Al-Baath University - Homs 2018.
7- Deputy Dean of the Higher Institute of Languages - Al-Baath University - Homs 2018.
8- Head of the French Language Teaching Department at the Higher Institute of Languages - Al-Baath University - Homs 2019.
9- Head of the French Language Department at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences - Al-Baath University - Homs 2022.
Other Information
1- Participation in annual conferences and seminars held by the Universities of Franche-Comté and the University of Borgogno.
2- Participation with an intervention in a conference entitled “Textual proficiency of university students learning French as a foreign language in Syria” - Sorbonne University - Paris - France.
3- Participation with an intervention in a conference entitled: “The education system in Syria, the difficulties that students face in learning foreign languages” - Besançon - France.
4- Head of the Organizing Committee at the First Conference: Acculturation and Language Dialogue/Higher Institute of Languages - Al-Baath University.
5- Head of the Organizing Committee at the Second Conference: Living Languages between Communication and Pragmatics/Higher Institute of Languages - Al-Baath University.