الدكتور رسول الخفاجي

 CURRICULUM VITAE

Rasoul al-Khafaji

PERSONAL:
Nationality : Swedish
Date of Birth : July, 1940
Field of Specialization : Linguistics (Contrastive/Applied)
Academic Title : Associate Professor
Research Interests : Translation Studies
Text Linguistics
Contrastive Linguistics
Languages Spoken : Arabic, English, Swedish
Current Home Address : Hammarkulletorget 32,
424 37 Angered,
Gothenburg, Sweden
Home Phone Number : +46 (0) 31- 331 91 53
E-mail Address :

ACADEMIC DEGREES:
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Glasgow, U.K.
M.A. in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language),
The American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
B.A. in English Language & Literature, College of
Education, University of Baghdad, Iraq.

PUBLICATIONS: (BOOKS & RESEARCH PAPERS)
(A) In English
– A Structural Approach to Teaching Reading Comprehension (M.A. Thesis), American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1967
(2)
– Description and Contrastive Analysis of Tense and Time in English and Arabic. (Ph.D. Dissertation), University of Glasgow, U.K., 1972
– “A Formal- Functional Approach for Contrastive Linguistics” (London: English Language Teaching Journal, Vol. XXIX , No.2, 90-96, 1975
– “Deep and Transformational Structures in the Arabic Tense System” (Basrah: College of Arts Bulletin, 1976)
– “The Place of Dictation in the Oral Approach to the Teaching of English” (Baghdad: IDELTI Journal , 1977)
– “Contrastive Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching” (Baghdad: IDELTI Journal , No.10, 26-46, 1978)
– In-Service Refreshing Course for Teachers of English (Abu Dhabi: Ministry of Education , 1982) – A New Syllabus for ELT in Iraq
(Baghdad : Ministry of Education Press, 1988)
– “Arabic Translation Alternatives for the Passive in English’
(Poznan, Poland: Papers & Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Vol. 31, 19-37, 1996)
– “Errors made by Arab University Students in the Use of English Punctuation Marks” (Amman, Jordan: al-Manara, Al al-Bayt University Journal, Vol. 4,No. 3, 9-22, 1999).
– “Punctuation Transfer in Translated Arabic Texts (Tangier, Morocco: Turjuman, King Fahd Advanced School of Translation, 8, 2, 71-97, 1999).
(3)
– “Analysis of Errors made by Arab Students in the English Number System (Tetuan, Morocco: Offshoot: A Journal of Translation and Comparative Studies, Abdelmalek Essadi University, Vol. IV, No. 1, 61-71, 2001).
– “Punctuation Marks in Original Arabic Texts” (Wiesbaden, Germany: Zeitschrift fur arabische Lingvistik/ Journal of Arabic Linguistics, 40, 7-24, 2001).
“Lexical Cohesion in Arabic Texts” (Uppsala, Sweden: Orientalia Suecana: An International Journal of Indological, Iranian, Semitic and Turkic Studies, University of Uppsala Journal, Vol. LIII, 113-132, 2004).
– “Variation and Recurrence in the Lexical Chains of Arabic and English Texts” (forthcoming in Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics ‘PSiCL’, Vol. 40, 2005, Adam Mickiewics University, Poznan, Poland).
– “Patterns of Lexis in Arabic Text Types” (forthcoming in the Proceedings of Oslo-Gothenburg International Conference of Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and Lexicon, held at Oslo University, Norway, 3 – 5 June, 2004).
– “In Search of Translational Norms: The Case of Shifts in Lexical Repetition in Arabic-English Translations” (forthcoming in Babel).
– “Arabic Translated Texts as a Research Field” (presented at the
Nordic-Arab Research Conference on Arabic Literature and
Linguistics held in Alexandria, Egypt, 13-15 April, 2005).
(4)
(B) In Arabic
– “9ilm al luGHa altaTbiiqi wa ahammiyyatuhu fii tadriisi al luGHati al injiliiziyya fii al 9iraaq” (Applied Linguistics and its Importance in the Teaching of English in Iraq), (Basrah, Iraq: College of Arts Journal, 1973).
– “9ilm al luGHa al Hadiith bayna al naZariyya waltaTbiiq”(Modern Linguistics between Theory and Practice), (Basrah, Iraq: Sawt al-Jami9a Journal, 1975).
– “al izdiwajiyya-l-luGHawiyya fil-waTani-l-9arabi” (Diglossia in the Arab World), (Basrah, Iraq: al-Khaliij al-Arabi Journal, no.2, 73-97, 1975).
– “mu9jamu 9ilmi-l-luGHa” (Glossary of Linguistic Terms), (Rabat, Morocco: al Lisani-l-9arabi Journal, no. 15, vol. 1, 115-138, 1977).