Dr Mohamed Jlassi

Dr Mohamed Jlassi is an Assistant Professor of language and linguistics at the Faculty of Language Studies, Sohar University, Oman. He graduated with a PhD in theoretical linguistics from the University of Newcastle, England. He joined Sohar University after a long teaching tenure at Tunisian and other Omani universities. He has been involved in teaching several undergraduate and postgraduate linguistics courses such as syntax, morphology, lexical semantics, phonetics and phonology, pragmatics, language acquisition and learning, second language acquisition, methods of teaching English and research methodology. Dr. Mohamed Jlassi has chaired the MA TESOL program at the Faculty of Language Studies and has been active in several Faculty and University committees. His research interests are mainly in syntax-discourse interface, dialect syntax, comparative linguistics, corpus linguistics and second language acquisition and learning.