Academic Staff

Nov. 18, 2025, 8:51 p.m.
Saeed Ayyed Atiyah (PhD)
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Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics

English Language
College of Basic Education
University of Duhok

  • PhD of Applied linguistics, College of Languages, University of Duhok, 2023.
  • MA of English Language and Linguistics, College of Arts, University of Mosul, 2012.
  • BA of English Language, College of Arts, University of Mosul, 2009.

12 years of teaching experience in departmental and non-departmental subjects, including the following:

  1. Semantics & Pragmatics, 4th stage, English department.
  2. Linguistics, 3rd stage, English department.
  3. Phonetics & Phonology, 2nd stage, English department.
  4. Grammar, 1st stage, English department.
  5. Listening & Speaking, 2nd and 3rd stages, English department.
  6. Conversation, 1st and 3rd stages, English department.
  7. Academic writing, 3rd stage, English department.
  8. General English, 1st stage, Department of Social Sciences.
  9. General English, 1st. Department of Arabic Language.
  10. General English and English for Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Anesthesia departments.

  1. Participated in BA training programms inside and outside the country, including primary school teachers’ modernization in Kurdistan, which lasted for two years. The training took place in Kurdistan, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
  2. Participated in MA and PhD viva discussions.
  3. Evaluated many MA and PhD theses linguistically.

Research

  1. A Study of Apology Strategies used by Bahdini Kurdish Students with Reference to English. Academic Journal of Nawroz University, Vol. 8- No. (4), 2019.
  2. A Pragmatic Study of Bahdini Kurdish Request Strategies with Reference to English. Journal of College of Basic Education-University of Mosul, Vol. 7., 2019.
  3. Kurdish EFL University Students’ Perception of Computer-mediated Pragmatics Learning DOI:10.23813/FA/28/3
  4. The Significance of Pragmatic Competence in English Language Teaching: Behdini Kurdish University Teachers’ Perspectives DOI:10.26750/Vol(12). No(2).Paper29

Applied Linguistics, interlanguage pragmatics, speech act performance, pragmatic competence in ELT, and technology-mediated instruction, with a particular focus on Kurdish EFL learners and cross-cultural communication.

Supervised and examined many BA graduation papers