Mirna Karam is currently a full-time Instructor at NDU-SC. Her main interests lie in the field of Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. She has been working with Lebanese students on improving their English Language skills since 1993, when she first started teaching English as a second language at the elementary and intermediate levels. She then had the chance to teach English as a 3rd Language for a year, which created a strong necessity to learn more about the field of applied linguistics especially designing language syllabi for students with special linguistic and communication needs. She pursued her MA while teaching at a number of universities at the Intensive English Level. After completing the course load for the Master in Applied Linguistics program, she moved to Balamand University where she taught freshman English courses for almost 5 years. She was contacted by the National Center for Educational Research and Development to become a member of the team who was working on designing the English Grade 4 textbook for Lebanese schools based on the newly designed curriculum. She successfully completed this job in 1997 and then spent three summers in a row training teachers in different Lebanese regions on using the latest methods of teaching English as a first or second language.
Since October 2009, she has started pursuing a Doctorate Degree in Education – Teaching English as a Second Language at the Lebanese University. She has completed the first year successfully having finished the course load requirement of the PhD degree with distinction. The research topic she is working on, as discussed in her proposal, is “The Effects of Teaching Word Clusters or Multiword Expressions chosen from L1 University Student Corpora on the comprehensibility and fluency of L2 1st year college students taking remedial English courses”.

M.A. in Applied Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language, Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon, 2005.

B.A. in Elementary Education with a double major in Business Administration and a minor in Arabic Language, Middle East University, Lebanon, 1991.

Book

Karam, M. et. al. (1997) English in Progress, Grade 4, Lebanese Curriculum. Beirut: National Council for Educational Research and Development (NCERD)..

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