Myriam Abdel-Malek

Myriam Abdel-Malek , Ph.D. is an Arabic instructor II at the University of Pittsburgh Less- Commonly-Taught-Languages Center in the Department of Linguistics. She has taught and designed syllabi and assessments for Arabic courses at several institutions of higher education. Her research focuses on discourse analysis of Arabic texts using systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and on investigating SFL genre-based pedagogy for teaching and assessing literacy in Arabic. Her work has appeared in...See more

Myriam Abdel-Malek , Ph.D. is an Arabic instructor II at the University of Pittsburgh Less- Commonly-Taught-Languages Center in the Department of Linguistics. She has taught and designed syllabi and assessments for Arabic courses at several institutions of higher education. Her research focuses on discourse analysis of Arabic texts using systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and on investigating SFL genre-based pedagogy for teaching and assessing literacy in Arabic. Her work has appeared in peer reviewed journals. She was a project coordinator under Title VI grant with The Center for Language Proficiency Education and Research (2018-2022). In her project, she designed genre-based instructional material to be used by Arabic instructors. See less