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Ms. Asma Naz

LECTURER
PROFILE SUMMARY

I am currently working at the position of a Lecturer at C.U.S.T., Islamabad. I am responsible to teach a multitude of courses to the students of varying disciplines such BS Computer Sciences, BS Software Engineering and BS Bio Informatics and Bio Sciences. I have also taught to the students of MSC Linguistics at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. My teaching assignments have included courses of Functional English, Communication Skills, Technical Report Writing, Academic Writing, Phonetics & Phonology. As an instructor, I believe in developing life-long learners of language. I employ a pragmatic approach of meeting students at their level and moving them into the zone of proximal development through scaffolding.
Additionally, I’m performing the responsibilities of Course Coordinator of Communication Skills, Report Writer of different events at departmental level, and also advisor of a particular Batch of BSE at this institution. Aside from teaching assignments, I am also required to train students for various writing competitions such as essay and story writing. I have also trained many students for debates and speeches.

QUALIFICATION
Msc Linguistics Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 2013
M.A TEFL AIOU 2013
MSc Linguistics Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad 2013
BA English, Psychology Punjab University 2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad Since – 2015
Lecturer Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad 2014 – 2015
Visiting Lecturer Quaid-iAzam University, Islamabad 2013 – 2014
RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS

1. Corpus linguistics;
2. Statistics;
3. The application of corpus methods in the study of speech and writing;
4. Learner language;
5. Collocations;
6. Phraseology and vocabulary;
7. Corpus design and corpus tools development;
8. Experimental Phonetics and Phonology;
9. Forensic Phonetics;
10. Psycholinguistics;
11. Second Language Acquisition;
12. Implicit and Explicit L2 Knowledge;
13. Prosody
14. Tone

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