Hanada's+Bio

= Dr. Hanada Taha-Thomure = Project Manager

Director, Arabic Language rograms, San Diego State University hanada@arabexpertise.com [] Hanada's Bio

Dr. Taha-Thomure earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from the [|University of New Orleans] in 2001. She holds a a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology and a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from the [|American University of Beirut].

Dr. Taha-Thomure is the Director of the Arabic Language Program at San Diego State University’s Language Acquisition Resource Center. She is also a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages.

Dr. Taha-Thomure taught Arabic and headed Arabic departments in various schools in Lebanon, Sultanate of Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and The United States. She has trained Arabic language teachers in Lebanon, Morocco, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and continues to work with teachers in the United States. She holds the multiple-subjects teacher credential from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Dr. Taha-Thomure was one of the team of researchers who developed the Egyptian, Iraqi and Syrian dialects examinations for [|Second Language Testing, Inc]. She is the author of [|Academic Freedom in Arab Universities] in addition to several children’s scripted plays. She also managed the Scholastic My Arabic Library program in the kingdom of Bahrain. Additionally, she led a curriculum development team, commissioned by the Language Acquisition Resource Center at San Diego State University in the development of distinguished-level Arabic instructional material.