Sharif Alghazo
Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan
Jordan

Dr Sharif Alghazo is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Jordan, where he served as an Assistant Dean for Administrative Affairs. He is the director of the Applied English Program in the Department of English Language and Literature. Dr Sharif specialises in English phonetics and pronunciation. His research has focused on English pronunciation learning and teaching, learner and teacher cognitions and beliefs, and native-speakerism, native-culturism, and neoliberalism in second language pedagogy. Dr Sharif received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Linguistics from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. His scholarly research has appeared in journals such as Research in Language, International Education Studies, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, and Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics and in newsletters such as Speak Out! and As We Speak. He presented his scholarly research at a number of local and international conferences. Dr Sharif has supervised a number of Master’s theses through to the successful completion of the degrees.

Mahmoud Zidan
Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan
Jordan

Mahmoud Zidan is an assistant professor of English literature in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Jordan. His interests include postcolonial literature, African-America literature, contemporary American literature, and native-speakerism.