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Mr Mourad Diouri
Of Moroccan origin Mourad Diouri has spent almost a decade of his professional career teaching languages at a number of institutions across the UK, including PASTON College and Norwich City College. A qualified ESOL/EFL/Arabic teacher, his career and passion for teaching began at the University of East Anglia where he won the University‘s Award of Excellence in Teaching in 2005 for the Most Innovative Course Design and as a result of integrating educational technologies into classroom teaching.
He moved to Edinburgh in 2007 to take up his current post, where his enthusiasm for language teaching combined with technology became a reality. Now specialising in TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning), Mourad has made it a personal mission to modernise and advance the teaching of Arabic and other foreign languages. In 2009 he was shortlisted for an eLearning Award, Excellence in the Production of Learning Content.
In addition to teaching Arabic as a foreign language, Mourad specialises in the design and development of interactive eLearning resources which support language learners and teachers within and beyond the classroom. In order to support learners and teachers of Arabic worldwide he has developed and continues to update two well known portals:
1. e-Arabic Learners Portal at e-Arabic.com
2. e-Arabic Teachers Portal at v-Arabic.com
Mourad is also involved in teacher-training designing regular CPD course in eLearning design skills and has designed and delivers a regular 2-day training programme in essential eLearning for language teachers delivered across the UK. He obtained an MEd (Open University) followed by a PGCE(Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) and aPGCE (Skills & Learning Sector/Post Compulsory Education).Mourad is a ‘Qualified Individual’ in Google Education Apps and is currently training to become a certified Google trainer.
Publications
Books
Books (to be published/works-in-progress)
Internet Arabic: An Essential vocabulary, Edinburgh University Press
Islamic Arabic: An Essential vocabulary, Edinburgh University Press
Teach Yourself: Read & Write Arabic Script, Hodder Education
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