About me

 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 today’s 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 “100 English Resource Centers” 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).