Biography
Angela Hakim is a PhD candidate at King's College London in the School of Education, Communication and Society. She holds a BA in Politics and Russian Language, an MEd in TESOL and and MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching.
Before joining King's, she taught English for academic purposes and English as a second language in the U.K., U.S.A, Lebanon, Mexico and Russia. Angela's research interests include English for academic purposes, the teaching of writing in higher education, discipline-specific approaches to academic literacy instruction, and collaboration among EAP and discipline specialists in universities.
Her thesis title is: Implementing academic literacy instruction institution wide: An intervention study.
Principal supervisor: Dr Ursula Wingate
Secondary supervisor: Dr Chris Tang
Research
Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)
The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication is a major centre for descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics and language in education.
News
King's student selected by US Department of State for prestigious English language specialist project
Angela Hakim, PhD candidate at the School of Education, Communication & Society, has just been selected as a US State Department English Language Specialist...
Events
Supporting students' academic language and literacy development: What EMI can draw on from EAP
In this talk, Angela Hakim will explore areas for which there is great potential for cross-fertilisation between the EMI and EAP literature and outline...
Please note: this event has passed.
Education, Communication, and Society Doctoral Conference 2022: Transformation
This year’s one-day conference for PhD students and other early career researchers will take place on 5 March 2022 in a hybrid format.
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Moving beyond imposter syndrome and finding authorial voice
PhD student Angela Hakim explains what it meant for her to have imposter syndrome during the first year of her PhD, and which two processes were instrumental...
Introducing the Language, Discourse and Communication PGR Blog
PhD candidates Angela Hakim and Pippa Sterk launch today the Language, Discourse, and Communication (LDC) PGR Blog. Here they explain why they decided to...
Research
Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)
The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication is a major centre for descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics and language in education.
News
King's student selected by US Department of State for prestigious English language specialist project
Angela Hakim, PhD candidate at the School of Education, Communication & Society, has just been selected as a US State Department English Language Specialist...
Events
Supporting students' academic language and literacy development: What EMI can draw on from EAP
In this talk, Angela Hakim will explore areas for which there is great potential for cross-fertilisation between the EMI and EAP literature and outline...
Please note: this event has passed.
Education, Communication, and Society Doctoral Conference 2022: Transformation
This year’s one-day conference for PhD students and other early career researchers will take place on 5 March 2022 in a hybrid format.
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Moving beyond imposter syndrome and finding authorial voice
PhD student Angela Hakim explains what it meant for her to have imposter syndrome during the first year of her PhD, and which two processes were instrumental...
Introducing the Language, Discourse and Communication PGR Blog
PhD candidates Angela Hakim and Pippa Sterk launch today the Language, Discourse, and Communication (LDC) PGR Blog. Here they explain why they decided to...