Speakers
Speakers
Dr. Faiza Haddam-Bouabdallah is an Associate Professor at the department of English, University of Tlemcen, Algeria.
She received her PhD degree in TEFL (English as a Foreign Language) from the Faculty of Letters and Languages in Tlemcen, Algeria, in 2015. Her thesis is entitled: “ESP Course Design- The Case of Master Students in the Biology Department”. She is a specialist in Didactics, and her research interests is ESP (English for Specific Purposes), as well as Teaching Communication skills through Technology.
She was the director of CRE (Job Seeking Club) and a co-director of CDC (A Career Center) from 2017 to 2020; a project launched by the University of Tlemcen in 2017 with the collaboration of ILO (International Labour Organisation) to promote Employment opportunities for Algerian youth and women. This project aimed at bridging the gap between Universities and the labour market and to help students and graduates for their future career in order to prepare them to the job market.
She was an active participant in COFFEE Project in 2017, a partnership between the Algerian government and European Union to implement professional Licence Degree in Algeria for different disciplines. She was in charge of Designing a syllabus for teaching Technical English at the Faculty of Engineering at Tlemcen University-Algeria.
Prof. (Dr.) Peter Shephard is a prolific researcher and writer who also enjoys teaching. He has specialied in the training of trainers, teachers, and school principals. He has authored eight books and is an Adjunct Professor with an International University, teaching at Doctoral level in Africa, Middle East, Asia, and the UK. His areas of research and teaching have been in Education, Learning and Development, Leadership, Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management. He also does cross cultural coaching and orientation for educationists and business expatriates. Earlier in his career, he worked in government, for a US multinational pharmaceutical company and an international airline. He then moved into management consulting, specializing in Human Resources, employee assessment, training, and Visiting Professorships. He has lived and worked in over 15 countries and currently resides in both the UK and Malaysia. Peter has recently been appointed Chairman of The Oxbridge Trust (UK). He is also a Trustee of Oxbridge and Cambridge Global Learning (CGL) and manages CGL’s International Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur and is the Managing Editor for their REALIZE magazine on Learning.
Prof. Shephard is a Behavioural Scientist who has been specializing in – ‘Whole brain Thinking and Learning’ – for the last four decades and has a passion for sharing his experiences in this area.
Prof. (Dr.) Mustafa Zülküf Altan is a full-time professor in ELT at the Department of Foreign Languages Education at Erciyes University, Türkiye.
He has attended numerous conferences both at home and abroad and has over 100 articles, and six books: “Towards Professional Teaching” (2009), 2015 Best Education Research Award winning “The Educational Gridlock of Turkey, Entrepreneurial Teaching, Entrepreneurial Teacher” (2014), “About Teaching, Films and Teachers” (2016), “The Faculty of Education in their Dreams” (2017), “Education Fire” (2019) and “Terror – What If It Is Not” (2021).
His research interests include teacher education, teacher development, managing educational change, individual differences in foreign language learning, alternative assessment, intercultural communication and enterprising teaching.