Dr. Abdelilah Salim Sehlaoui is professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics. He is currently serving as College of Education Director of Grant Research at Sam Houston State University (SHSU). He also served as department chair of Language, Literacy & Special Population Department at SHSU. From 1999 to 2017, he served as Director of TESOL Teacher Education Programs at Emporia State University (ESU). Dr. Sehlaoui has extensive experience with designing, implementing, managing and evaluating large-scale National ESL Professional Development Program federal grants with a total award amount of $6.5 Million. The grant projects served more than 35 school districts in the state of Kansas. He has more than 32 years combined experience in leadership in ESOL as teacher and teacher educator and administrator (North Africa and USA). He is fluent in French, Arabic, English, and can communicate in Spanish and Berber. Dr. Sehlaoui has knowledge of effective TESOL/multicultural/multilingual scientifically-proven strategies for P/K-12 grade level, classroom experience in elementary, secondary, post-secondary/higher education classroom teaching. He is familiar with rural and urban communities and their issues and has extensive travel domestically and internationally. He has experience in facilitating large-scale systemic reform. He is a CAEP/TESOL reviewer and has extensive experience with educational technology and online learning since 2000. Dr. Sehlaoui is recipient of the 2001 Emporia State University’s President Award in Leadership in Diversity. He was also recipient of 2011 ESU President’s Research and Creativity Award. He was the recipient of the 2008 Kansas-TESOL Higher Education Faculty Service to English Learners Award and the 2004 Who’s Who Among International Scholars Award. He was nominated to the Wall of Tolerance by Rosa Parks and Morris Dees from the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was invited to present at various international and national conferences (London, Spain, Morocco), national OELA Summit, Renaissance Group National Conference, among others. He has provided professional consulting to schools and universities nationally and internationally and edited special issues for and published in international journals such as “Language, Culture, and Curriculum” by Routledge on language resources in the USA. He published books and book chapters and many articles in various prestigious peer-refereed international journals. Prof. Sehlaoui’s main research interest centers on the development of critical cross-cultural communicative competence in ESL/EFL teachers and academic leaders, critical pedagogy in TESOL teacher education, the effectiveness of teacher education and how to document the impact of teaching on student learning, sociolinguistics, heritage language, ESL/EFL Reading, Computer-assisted language learning (CALL), and NPD grant-related research. His latest book was published in the area of teaching STEM to ELs via CALL. Dr. Sehlaoui served as elected president of Kansas TESOL and NABE-Kansas affiliate, Fulbright FLTA National Committee, among many other committees. He is a member of several national and international professional organizations. 

 

 

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