Roles

Prof. Shafter is a staff member in the French Language Department at the Faculty of Languages. He was appointed as a teaching assistant in 1982. He has been working as a professor at the University of Tripoli since 04-08-2016 and has many publications in his field of specialization.

1982  Teaching assistant

1987  Assistant lecturer (MA. From France)

1993  Lecturer (PH.D. from Belgium)

2001  Assistant professor

2007  Associate professor

2016  Professor

Teaching Applied Linguistics and Phonetics and Phonology at the undergraduate and postgraduate level

Careers

2018-2020 Dean of the Faculty of Languages – University of Tripoli

2007-2017: Head of the French Department at the Faculty of Languages – University of Tripoli

Teaching Applied Linguistics and Phonetics and Phonology at Azzawia University and Aljabal Al-Gharbi University

Research Interests

Supervising master's dissertation since 2001

Syllabus design

Methods of foreign language teaching

Developing methods and approaches to teach French as a foreign language

External Activities

Working as a translator (written, simultaneous consecutive translation) in international conferences and seminars