About me
After almost four decades of
service in the English Language Teaching field (as a teacher, teacher-trainer,
and in multi-tasking missions; see my brief bio below), I have decided to
design a new website, www.learnenglishplatform.com. The site is also accessible
on the Google Play and Apple App Stores as a free (and ad-free) app. The
platform has been created to provide a selected collection of tools and
resources for English language learners (and teachers) from different
backgrounds and skill levels.
The site also includes a special
section entitled "Today's Picks" (along with two RSS pages) that
users may check for regularly updated content (including Word of the Day,
Picture of the Day, Poem of the Day, and much more!). From the same link (site/app),
users can also access the pages I have created on major social media platforms.
As an afterthought, and following
feedback I got from friends and users throughout the world, I thought of
designing this blog as an extension to the platform. The main aim is first to
provide my followers with more updated content in such a super-fast-changing
educational world. I also hope that the blog will serve as an open space
for exchanging resources, experiences and expertise relating to learning and
teaching English. My posts will then serve just as mere prompts that would
trigger thinking and discussion on the best and most efficient resources,
tools, approaches, methods, techniques or activities (or any related content
for that matter) that would benefit todayās English learner, and make their
day-to-day learning more sustainable, more stress-free and just more enjoyable!
I would be extremely grateful if I
could get any feedback about the blog layout and content. After all,
professional development in teaching (or any other sphere) should be (or has to
be, no choice in my view!) an ongoing career-long, or rather life-long,
process.
So happy learning and enjoyable
growth for us all!
Abdellatif Zoubair
About Me: Short Biography
Abdellatif Zoubair had
served, up to 2020, as regional English Language Teaching (ELT) coordinating
supervisor at Souss-Massa Regional Academy, Agadir, Morocco; and as
coordinator of the regional language laboratory project. In addition to
supervision and in-service training, he held different other positions,
including that of a university teacher at the English Department, Ibn Zohr University, head of the
Baccalaureate-test-design team at SM Academy for fifteen years, and
teacher (and in-service trainer) at the American Language Center, Agadir, for twenty-one years.
Mr
Zoubair holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, and a
post-graduate diploma in English Language Teaching Methodology from the same
university. He had received certificates for onsite training courses from the
universities of Stirling, Scotland; Lancaster and Reading, England; and the Academy for Educational
Development in Washington, D. C. He had also benefited from several
online training course modules from other American universities. He had
participated, lectured and conducted workshops at various national and
international conferences in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Great Britain and the
USA.
Mr
Zoubair had helped set up one of the first English Resource Centers in Morocco;
an initiative that was later implemented nationwide by the Ministry of
National Education through an
official correspondence issued in 1986. He also initiated the ā100 English
Resource Centersā program in 2014, with the help of the British
Council, in
coordination with the Moroccan Resource Centers of English Network, MoRCE-Net, www.morcenet.org , NGO, of which Mr. Abdellatif
Zoubair is co-founder and current president.
Mr.
Abdellatif Zoubair has completed and contributed to the completion of a number
of research studies and programs in the areas of: testing, alternative
assessment, reading, action research, Teacher Learning Communities and
educational technologies. He also co-authored a series of six-level
textbooks for teaching English to young learners, Atlas English; and served as coordinator of
the National Committee for the Accreditation of Digital English Educational
Resources, for Genie
Programme at the
Ministry of National Education. In the field of teacher-training, Mr. Zoubair
had also contributed to the training of three cohorts of American Peace
Corps volunteers in
the field of TEFL methodology.
Mr Zoubair worked in the field of
translation for the benefit of several national institutions such as Royal Air Maroc and Mohammed VI
Foundation for Environmental Protection. He had also served as coordinator for several
international educational programs, including "Access", "Connecting
Classrooms", and
"International
School Award".
He had created two educational websites for the benefit of trainers, teachers
and learners and audiences interested in English Language Learning and
Teaching: https://zoubaireltcommunity.ac.ma, and https://zoubaireltcommunity.wixsite.com/eduresources ; in addition to related social
media platform links.
Mr. Zoubair has received a number of awards of merit and distinction, including
the Merit Award from the British
Council (1990), the
Merit Award from the American
Cultural Association (2007), the
Excellence Award in Educational Technologies from the Ministry of
National Education (2017), and
last but not least the Royal Order of
Merit, (2018).
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