Spring 2012 Office Hours: T 1-3, W 1-2

Dr. Giselle Khoury holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics with a specialty in foreign language acquisition. Dr. Khoury is a Senior Lecturer in Arabic and the Head of the Arabic Language Program at Boston University. In this capacity, she oversees all aspects of the program and her responsibilities include curriculum, syllabi, material, and course development, course scheduling, assigning staff teaching schedules, instructor recruitment, methodological training and professional development of instructors and teaching assistants, and coordination and supervision of all sections.  In addition, she advises and mentors instructors and students, conducts classroom observations, designs and coordinates all the extra curricular and cultural activities, ensures coherence and uniform standards within the language program, and handles any and all problems pertinent to the program.

Dr. Khoury has an extensive and diverse language teaching experience. She has been teaching languages to learners with widely varying degrees of proficiency – ranging from beginners to advanced levels – and of varying ages, linguistic backgrounds, and cultural heritages.

Dr. Khoury is currently administering two federally funded National Security Language Initiative projects at Boston University. She is the Principle Investigator and Program Director of the Academy for Arabic Teachers: STARTALK Arabic Teacher Professional Program (summer 2009 and 2010). Dr. Khoury is also the Coordinator of Project GO (Global Officers) BU, a Department of Defense funded program that aims to increase the number of ROTC students who are linguistically and culturally competent in 5 critical-need languages: Arabic, Chinese, Turkish, Hausa, and Wolof.