aomar
My Profile
- Given Name
- Alwiya
- Family Name
- Omar
- Title
- Clinical Associate Professor
- Department/Program/Discipline
- Linguistics/African Languages
- Organization
- Indiana University
- Country
- USA
- State/Province
- Indiana
- Street Address
1021 E Third street
- Phone Number
- 812 855 3323
- City
- Bloomington
- Zip/Postal Code
- 47405
- Website
- www.indiana.edu/~afrilang
- Short Biography
Alwiya Omar is a Clinical Associate Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University. She teaches Kiswahili and co-ordinates the teaching of other African languages in the Department of Linguistics and the African Studies program. Her research interests include second language acquisition, cross-cultural pragmatics, web-based language instruction, and study abroad language programs. Dr. Omar is from Zanzibar, Tanzania.
- Long Biography
Alwiya S. Omar is a Clinical Associate Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University,
Bloomington. She teaches Kiswahili and co-ordinates the teaching of other African languages in the Department of Linguistics and the African Studies program. Her research interests include second language acquisition, cross-cultural pragmatics, web-based language instruction, and study abroad language programs. Her recent publications include a co-authored advanced Kiswahili text book Tuwasilianae kwa Kiswahili ‘Let’s Communicate in Kiswahili’ with L. Rushubirwa, National African Language Resource Center, 2007; and two articles on Kiswahili Pragmatics: “Kiswahili requests: Performance of Native Speakers and learners” in K. Bardovi-Harlig, C. Felix-Brasdefer, A. Omar (Eds.), Pragmatics and Language Learning, University of Hawaii Press, 2006; and “Kanga Captions: Social and Political Communication with Application to Kiswahili Language Teaching and Learning,” in L. Moshi and A. Ojo (Eds.), Language Pedagogy and Language Use in Africa, Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2009. She has also participated in several web based resources for Kiswahili language teaching and learning. Some of these resources can be found at:
http://www.africa.uga.edu/Kiswahili/doe/index.html and
http://www.indiana.edu/~afritalk/ (to access the different language sites on this project email aomar@indiana.edu for username and password)
History
- Member for
- 2 years 11 weeks
