Roles

Manar is currently a lecturer at the English Language Department in the University of Tripoli. She teaches and supervises English Specialization students. She also teaches General English Language to students in other faculties around the university using interactive teaching techniques and incorporating technology into the language teaching process.

Careers

After six years of teaching Business Communication and Research and Writing courses to undergraduate students at the American University of Leadership in Libya, Manar now teaches Grammar and Comprehension Units to English Language specialization students at the University of Tripoli . She also worked as a translator for Horoof, a private agency; translating documents for the United Nations Development Program. Before that, she was a Clerical Marker with the British Council, responsible for marking the Listening and Reading parts of the IELTS exam. 

Research Interests

Manar has an excellent background in teaching and learning languages and language acquisition. She has conducted a comprehensive  study on improving the system of teaching languages to language specialization students at Tripoli University reflecting on theories in TEFL, language learning and task based language teaching. Manar is, also, particularly interested in communication and linguistics. Her MA study thesis was a comparative study examining linguistic aspects used in political media interviews from a sociolinguistic perspective. 

External Activities

Having been a lecturer at the American University of Leadership in Libya, Manar became more experienced and knowledgeable in Business Communication. The topics she taught explored communication theories, cross-cultural communication, writing business reports and messages, and corporate communication. Manar constantly reflected on her academic background during her teaching by incorporating topics from psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. The students were always very interested and eventually very pleased with Manar's courses and teaching techniques.