Kassis nazih קסיס נזיה curriculum vitae personal Details

KASSIS NAZIH

קסיס נזיה

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details

Name:	Dr. NAZIH KASSIS (Mr.)
ID:	020058590
Date of Birth:	22.1.1944
Place of Birth:	Israel
Marital Status:	Married
Address:	Rama Village, 30055 P.O. Box 125
Telephone:	04-9884843
Mobile Phone:	050-7665668
Fax:	04-9583554
E-mail:	[e-mail]

Academic Rank and Job Percentage

Actual Academic Rank	Lecturer	50%
Institution that Awarded the Rank	The Academic Arab College	2008

Present Position

2007-Present	Head of the English Department- The Academic Arab College for Education in Israel. Haifa.
2004-Present	Member of the Academy for Arabic Language in Israel.
1994- present	Lecturer at The Academic Arab College for Education in Israel. Haifa.
1992- Present	Lecturer at EFL Department. University of Haifa.

Degrees

1994	Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics. Specialization: Lexicography. University of Exeter. Exeter, U.K.
1982	M.A. in English Literature and Arabic Literature (Ancillary Studies) Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.
1968	Certificate for Teaching at High Schools Haifa University. Haifa, Israel.
1967	B.A. in English Language and Literature and Arabic Language and Literature. The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Israel.

Papers

Ph.D. Dissertation	Kassis, N. (1994). English Collocational Categories: A Syntactic, Thematic and Socio-cultural Classification and Analysis with Special Reference to Dictionaries for Foreign Learners. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K., 1994)
Supervisor	R.R.K. Hartman: Head of Department of Linguistics, Head of Dictionary Research Center, Previous President of EURALEX (European Association for Lexicography). Exeter University.
External Examiner	P. Cowie: Leeds University, UK. Editor of Hornby’s Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
M.A. Thesis	The Structure of Virgin Wolf’s Major Novels.

Professional Development: Courses Attended

1996/1999	Using the Internet in English Teaching. Haifa University.
1994	Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Haifa University.
1989	Teaching English for the Psychometric Examination. KIDUM.
1989	Telecommunications. ETAI, Tel-Aviv.
1989	Using the Computer in English Teaching. The British Council. Tel-Aviv.
1970	A Summer Course in “Teaching English As a Foreign Language.” Leeds University. U.K.

Experience

1967- Present	Teacher of English Language and Literature. Rama High School. Rama.
1992-2008	Lecturer at the EFL Department. Haifa University. Haifa.
1996-2008	Lecturer of English Language and literature: English Department. The Academic Arab College for Education in Haifa. Israel.
2000-2004	Teacher-Trainer: The Academic Arab College for Education. Haifa. Israel.
1996	Teacher of Arabic as a Foreign Language. A Summer Course for Americans studying Arabic by means of English. Portland State University. Oregon, U.S.A.
1991-1992	Teacher of English as a Foreign Language. The Nazareth Arab College. Nazareth.
1985-1990	Teacher of English Language and Literature. Merkaz Hagalil High School (AMAL).
1985	Supervisor of English as a Foreign Language. The Open University. Rama Branch.
1978-1980	Teacher of English Language and Literature. Chrisistimus High School. Jish Village.
1971-1978	Teacher of English Language and Literature. Carmelite High School. Haifa.
1976-1977	Teacher of English for Adults at Rama, Beit-Jan, Ein Al-Asad, Sachnin. (Evening Classes) MISHLAV Schools.
1967-1969	Teacher of English and Arabic at Rama Agricultural School and Rama Comprehensive School.

Courses Taught at Haifa University – Membership of Committee

1996-2008	Member of Textbook Committees for 15 years. (Made contributions).
1994-2008	Department of Foreign Languages: EFL: Pre-Advanced and Advanced 1.
1991-1994	Pre-Academic Unit: English as a Foreign Language: (Level C for Russian Immigrant Students).

Courses Taught at Portland state University, Oregon, USA

1996	Arabic Folklore in Translation. 4^th Year American Students at the Department Semitic Languages.
	Spoken Arabic: Palestinian Dialect: 4^th Year American Students at the Middle Eastern Studies Department.

Courses Taught at the Academic Arab College for Education

1994-2008

English as a Foreign Language – Advanced One, Advanced Two, (1^st and 2^nd Year). Introduction to English and American Poetry, (1^st Year). Introduction to Short Fiction, (1^st and 2^nd Year) British Culture: Anglo-Saxon Poetry, (The Seafarer, The Wanderer), (Middle English Lyrics), (Chaucer's Canterbury Tales), and Morality Play (Everyman). Error Analysis: Sources of Errors in English among Arabic Speakers (3^rd Year) Advanced Grammar in Use: Third Year Students. (3^rd Year) Phraseology: Fixed Expressions, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, Collocations, Speech Acts, Proverbs. (Gifted Students Class). Modernism in the 20^th Century English and American Literature (3^rd Year) Lexicology and Lexicography: (4^th year). Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language: A Course for Teaching Certificate: (B.A. Teachers at Arab High Schools in Israel). The Art of Translation: Theory and Practice. A Suggested Course for next year's M.Ed. Course.

Publications

Dictionaries

Kassis, N. (2009). My Dictionary. Arabic-Arabic Dictionary with Pictures for Children. Tel-Aviv: Matah.

Kassis, N. (2009). Dictionnaire Arabe- Française/Française- Arabe. (Arabic by Nazih Kassis). Paris: Kernerman Dictionaries and Assimil.

Kassis, N. (2007) (Editor and Transcription). Dictionary of Names: Arabic Japanese. Japan: Jack Helpren Publishing.

Kassis, N. (2005). Online Machine Translation: Online Dictionary: Arabic Version (Rut Heffer Translator). Ramat-Gan: Intelligent Machines.

Kassis, N. (2004). PASSPORT: Online English-English-Arabic Dictionary. Tel-Aviv: GlobalDix K-Dictionaries Publishing.

Kassis, N. (1988) (Compiler/ Translator & Publisher). Dictionary of Computer Terms- English-Hebrew-Arabic. Akko, Israel: Abu Rahmon Publishing.

Kassis, N. (1987-1999) (Co-Translator and Chief Editor). Harrap's English Dictionary for Speakers of Arabic. Tel-Aviv, Toronto, Cairo, London: Kernerman Publishing.