Welcome to Arif Al-Ahdal's Website
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, College of Sciences and Arts, Methnab, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia; in love with poetry (English and Arabic)
Dr. Arif Ahmed Al-Ahdal is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, College of Sciences and Arts, Methnab, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. Though his vocation is teaching, Dr. Al-Ahdal is an established poet and writer. He has to his credit two bi-lingual poetry collections, To Yemen with Love and Joys and Sorrows, published in Yemen in 2010 and a reference book " PREPARING EFL TEACHERS FOR TOMORROW: OPENING NEW VISTAS IN TEACHER DEVELOPMENT WITH INSET, published in Germany in 2015, apart from nearly 35 research papers published in Internationally Scientific Indexed Journals. He also gained cross-cultural teaching experience from three countries: Yemen, India and Saudi Arabia. With such diverse exposure, he is currently a Monograph Editor in Sage Open Journals, America, Associate Editor in International Journal of Language and Literary Studies, Italy, Board Member of ELT Journal, Canada, Arab World English Journal, Malaysia, International Journal of English and Literary Studies, Australia and Journal of ELT and Applied Linguistics, India, among others. He is also a freelance trainer and certified IELTS Examiner.
Books & Poetry Collections
March 2015
The idea of in service education for teachers has been a subject of discussion as an important step to enable teachers to renew their subject and pedagogical knowledge as well as to break their isolation from developments in the field and the learners’ needs. Concerns for the teacher as a professional who is also the most significant link in the chain leading to curriculum redesign worked for me as the overarching aims for the design of the INSET syllabus that I have provided here. With timely support from a responsive government, INSET can present a plethora of opportunities and avenues for the continued professional development of teachers. The past few decades have seen a veritable explosion of knowledge all over the world. However, another explosion that has silently occurred is in the means of acquiring knowledge and the advancement in teaching-learning techniques. New devices, mass media, electronic and computer assisted learning and ICT have revolutionised the teaching-learning process. In a rapidly changing knowledge society teachers who are not comfortable with these will not be able to produce the desired results. Hence the need for such a book.
2010
Poetry is the pulse of the heart. I personally feel that there is a poet/ poetess within each human being. The collections of poetry accessible here were originally written in English and translated to Arabia, in poetry form. A literary translator is rightly said to be a co-author. How very true! It really feels good to have one’s poetic work translated by another person. What has happened here is quite different, though. The poet is himself the translator. Thus, I was relieved of the interpretation efforts I would have had to make had the original poems not been written by me. Thanks to bilingualism! Time to kiss you goodbye and wish you Happy reading!
2010
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