Lecturer in English Resume Example

I am a qualified ESL Instructor equipped with the language teaching skills and knowledge with six years of experience in teaching and research. My teaching experience ranges from online ESL instruction to onsite professional training of prospective teachers. I am adept at designing meaningful, up-to-date, and effective curriculum that engages students and expedites learning while focusing on the individual needs of each student.

• April 2013: Poster presentation on Gender and Humour, The University of Memphis Research forum, Memphis, TN
• July 2013: Paper presentation on Gender Construction in the Twentieth Century Funny Quotes, the International Conference on Women's Studies, Colombo, Srilanka
• July 2013: Paper presentation on Rethinking Fraternity in Pakistani Muslim society through an analysis of cross gender address words, the International Conference on Religious Studies, Colombo, Srilanka
• Nov 2013: Paper presentation on Differences in formality: Gender, language, and culture, the first International Conference on Linguistics & Language Teaching, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
• September 2014: Paper presentation on The Application of Task-Based Language Teaching in Pakistan at Graduate Level, the 30th SPELT International Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan

Qasim, A., Qasim, Z. (2013, July). Gender Construction in the Twentieth Century Funny Quotes, Paper Proceedings of Women's Studies 2013. Paper presented at the International Conference on Women's Studies, Colombo, Srilanka (187-205). International Centre for Research and Development, Sri Lanka. doi: http://futureevents.org/womenstudies/proceedings/ProceedingFinal.pdf

Qasim, Z., Qasim, A., Samia, A. (2013, July). Rethinking Fraternity in Pakistani Muslim society through an analysis of cross gender address words, Paper Proceedings of Religious Studies 2013. Paper presented at the International Conference on Religious Studies, Colombo, Srilanka (53-73). International Centre for Research and Development, Sri Lanka. doi: http://futureevents.org/religious studies/proceedings/ProceedingFinal.pdf

Qasim,A., Qasim, Z. (2014, February). The Role of language in Education: An Analytical Review of Pakistan's Education Policy 2009, Journal of Education and Practice. doi: http://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEP/article/view/10802

Qasim,A., Qasim, Z. (2014, June). Developing a Task based lesson using information gap activity, Journal of Education and Practice. doi: http://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEP/article/viewFile/13917/14069

Qasim,A., Qasim, Z. (2014, November). A Case Study of Code Switching in Trilingual Conversations, Research on Humanities and Social Sciences. doi: http://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/RHSS/article/view/16833/17172

Language and gender, Discourse analysis, Sociolinguistics, Bilingual education, Language policy, ESL pedagogy, Second language acquisition, ESL writing, Language testing and assessment, Corrective feedback, Task-based language teaching and learning

Member of English Graduate Organization, the University of Memphis, Aug 2012-present

Member of TESOL International Association, Sep 2013-present

• Additional Information: Worked a member of team which conducted spoken English classes for native Urdu Speakers at a renowned academy in Sargodha in the summer of 2007 and 2008.That provided me the opportunity to teach the speaking skill in particular and integration of the other three language skills with speaking skill in communication process.