Mohamed Maamouri
Biography
Mohamed Maamouri is the Associate Director of the International Literacy Institute (ILI) at the Graduate School of Education/University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in general linguistics at Cornell University and spent most of his professional career at the University of Tunis where, for about fifteen years, he taught in and directed the Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages in Tunis and acquired extensive experience in national and international educational matters.
Throughout the last thirty years of academic and administrative management
in Tunisia and abroad, Dr. Maamouri has gained experience in teaching, research,
and academic management. His international experience covers three major
geopolitical areas: the Arab Region, Africa, and the French-speaking world.
Dr. Maamouri lectured in Tunisia and abroad at major universities in the
USA, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, the former Soviet Union,
and China on language and language-related issues, linguistic theory, sociolinguistics,
language policy and planning, first- and second-language acquisition, literacy,
education, and educational reforms. He developed language teaching materials
in Arabic and English and has made numerous research contributions to the
fields of language and literacy acquisition, language policy and planning,
sociolinguistics and education as they relate to the Arabic and French-speaking
regions.
SLTP Presentations
INTERNATIONAL LITERACY
INSTITUTE