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Dr Iain McGee
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Iain is the Head of English Language Studies faculty. He earned his PhD from Cardiff University, UK, in 2006. Since that time he has published research in various international journals and presented papers at conferences on a variety of subjects within the fields of applied linguistics and TESOL. His current academic interests are in discourse analysis, genre analysis, paragraphing, and writing pedagogy. Iain taught in HEIs in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in Oman, before joining Majan College in June 2016. He believes all students should be researchers – asking questions, finding answers, and then asking more questions!
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Dr. Rajat Ghosh
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Dr. Rajat is an Associate Professor with over 20 years of teaching experience. Dr. Rajat has been teaching mainly on the BA(Hons) in English Language programme at Majan since 2005. His specialised areas of interest are formal linguistics, applied linguistics, corpus linguistics and English grammar. His current research focus is on enhancing student motivation through successful task-creation, task-administration and task-assessment and how to incorporate student input of language for descriptive and analytical skills. He has guided research assignments in the broad areas of motivation, language change, pronunciation variations and comparative linguistics.
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Dr. Ehsan Rassaei
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Dr. Ehsan Rassaei is an associate professor of Applied Linguistics in the faculty of English Language Studies at Majan University College. He has taught both undergraduate and postgraduate courses for more than 10 years before joining Majan and published a number of papers in top international journals such as System, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Language Teaching Research, and the Modern Language Journal. His areas of interest include corrective feedback in language classrooms, dynamic assessment, vocabulary teaching and computer-mediated language learning. He is in particular interested in investigating the application of different forms of technology for language teaching.
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Abdelseid Hamid Sharafeldin
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Abdelseid is a Senior Lecturer in English Language studies and he joined Majan College in October 2001. He has a B.A. in English Literature; a Masters in Communicative English; a Post Graduate diploma in the Teaching of English; a Diploma in Translation; a Certificate in American Culture and Civilization; and an M. Phil. in English Language Teaching. He is currently reading for his Ph.D.He has taught a variety of modules at all levels of the undergraduate programmes in Majan including English Language and Academic Skills, Intensive Academic Reading in English, General and Academic Writing in English, Personal and Professional Development.
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Anita Teresa Boggu
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Ms. Anita Teresa Boggu is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English Language Studies at Majan University College. She has an M.A in English Literature and a CELTA qualification. She has taught a variety of modules on the undergraduate programmes including English Language and Communication Skills, Academic Writing in English, Integrated Language Skills, English for Professional Development and Academic Reading and Writing for Business. She is the module coordinator for Integrated Language Skills for Business. She is the recipient of various teaching excellence awards including the Best Teacher Award, 2006 and the 1st Prize for using 'Authentic Materials, 2010, both awarded by the Ministry of Education, Oman.
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Dr. Larysa Nikolayeva
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Dr. Larysa Nikolayeva earned her PhD in Linguistic Typology in 2005. Her research included the study of 40 languages belonging to 10 language families. Her research interests are mostly connected with typological word-building, typological semantics, polysemy and typological universals. She teaches: Intensive academic reading, General Writing and Academic Writing on the BA (Hons) English Language programme. She is also the module coordinator for English for Specific Purposes and part of a teaching team for General and Academic Writing and Personal Development and Communication Skills offered by the Faculty of Business Management.
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Belema Edet
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Belema Edet is a lecturer and quality assurance coordinator for the Foundation program, and holds an LLB in Law, B.Ed in English Education and is completing an MA in TESOL. She teaches Academic Writing, Vocabulary in Communication, language and communication skills modules. Her areas of interest include EAP, ESP, teaching methods and motivation.
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Dr Tulika Mishra
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Tulika is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English Language studies. She has been teaching EFL on the foundation and undergraduate programmes at Majan University College since 2008. She holds a PhD in English Literature. For her, teaching provides an opportunity for continual learning and growth. Her research interests include uses of literature in language pedagogy and critical thinking regarding the use of language in literature. One of her hopes as an educator is to instill a love of learning in her students. Her philosophy of teaching is that, "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
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Majid Shatery
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Majid has been teaching EFL on the Foundation programme at Majan University College since 2002. He currently co-manages the Foundation Programme. He holds an MA in English Language Teaching from Tehran University, Iran. His research interests include methods of English teaching and application of skills-based EFL materials.
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Dr. Farhad Tayebipour
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Dr. Farhad Tayebipour is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English Language at Majan University College. With over 14 years of teaching experience, Dr.Tayebipour joined Majan University College in September 2014. His areas of interest are second language acquisition, L2 pragmatics and L2 dynamic assessment.He teaches Second Language Acquisition, Semantics and Pragmatics, Academic Writing in English, and Academic Reading and Writing for Business.
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George Puthery Louis
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George P.Louis joined the faculty of English Language Studies at Majan College as a Lecturer in English in March 2014. He holds an MA in English Literature from Osmania University, India, a post graduate diploma in teaching English from CIEFL, India and CELTA. He was in the Ministry of Education, Oman for 15 years and in 2009 was honoured with the best teacher award. At Majan, he teaches Grammar in Context, Vocabulary in Communication and basic research skills. He believes that, "True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”
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Mohammed Tanveer
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Mohammed Tanveer teaches a variety of English language modules including English Language Study and Academic Skills, Academic Writing, Academic Reading, Grammar in Context, Reading and Vocabulary Building in English, English for Professional Development and Communication in Business/IT, Integrated Language Skills for Business/IT, and Basic Research Skills. He has also been a Quality Assurance Co-ordinator of the English Foundation Programme. His teaching philosophy is a student-centered teaching approach that inspires learners and offers new learning experiences. He completed his Master of Education (M. Ed) in English Language Teaching from the University of Glasgow in 2007.
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Aziza Amir Ali
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Aziza Saghir Shah has been teaching Business and Accounting on the Foundation programme and various Business modules on the undergraduate programme since 2003. She is currently a semester coordinator of the Foundation Programme. She holds an MBA (Marketing) from the University of Hull, UK. Her research interests include Human Resource Management and Customer Service. Her teaching philosophy is: I try to teach each student as an individual, because each will have different needs based on their own unique situation, and these are shaped by "intelligences," by cultural background, by the major they choose, and countless other factors.
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Aliya Parveen
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Aliya is an English Lecturer in the Faculty of English Language Studies. She has taught English Language Study & Academic Skills and Academic Writing. She has an M.A in English Literature, Masters in Education and a CELTA qualification. She strives to combine her academic knowledge and time-tested language learning techniques to enrich students with essential skills and competencies in language learning.
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A.V. Avinash Kumar
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Mr. A.V. Avinash Kumar is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English Language at Majan University College. This is his sixth year in Majan College and he has an M.A in English Literature and an M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication. He is presently pursuing a PhD in Linguistics. His research interests are in the impact of technology on English language and transformation of English language with innovative technologies. He has co-ordinated and taught ESP English modules for the IT programme and presently co-ordinates Technical Writing and Presentation Skills in English (TWPSE) and teaches English modules for undergraduate students, both in the IT and Business programmes.
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Muhammed Ibrahim Farooq
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Muhammed Ibrahim Farooq is a Lecturer in English in the Faculty of English Language at Majan University College. He has been teaching English language for 16 years. He teaches English Language Study and Academic Skills, Grammar in Context, Vocabulary in Communication and Basic Research Skills. He holds an MA in English Literature and Language, a Diploma in TEFL and a Certificate in Teaching Languages (CTL from IH Newcastle, UK).
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Samih Hamed Al Busaidi
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Mr. Samih Saud AlBusaidi is an English Language Lecturer in the Faculty of English Language at Majan University College. He has a B.A in TESOL (University of Leeds, U.K.) and an M.A. in TESOL (University of Birmingham, U.K.) with over 27 years of teaching experience. He was Regional English Language Supervisor for seven years in the Ministry of Education Oman. His research interests include Classroom Discourse and Discourse Analysis.
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Shaik Inam Rahman
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Mr. Shaik Inam ur Rahman, is a Lecturer in English Language and he joined Majan college in September 2012. In his career, he has taught students from secondary level to the undergraduate level. He has received the best teachers' honour twice (2006 & 2009) and the best presentation award (2007) from the Ministry of Education, Oman. He holds a Masters Degree in English Language and literature with ELT specialization, CELTA and a B.Ed. He deems teaching as one of the best fields to be in, when it comes to serving the community. His main areas of interest include experimenting new ways to improve students' writing skills.
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Pramila Krishnan
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Pramila kunhunni Krishnan, English Language Lecturer, has to her credit nearly 19 years teaching experience, an MA, B.Ed and M.Phil in English from reputed Universities in India. She has a passion for teaching and believes successful learning takes place with effective teaching.
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Mubarak Al- Menwari
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Mubarak Al-Menwari is an English Lecturer in the Faculty of English Language at Majan University College. With over 24 years of teaching experience, Mubarak is teaching mainly the Foundation Programme in English Language at Majan. He joined Majan College on 08.9.2013. His specialized areas of interest are Academic writing and Academic writing. His current mission focuses on raising student motivation, and supporting students to develop their skills. He is always keen to provide help to all Majan students.
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Abdullah Al Badi
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Abdullah Saif Salimeen Al Badi joined Majan College (University College) in 2013 as an English language lecturer. He received an MA in Curriculum and Instruction in Teaching English from Muaata University, Jordan. At Majan College he teaches ELSAS, AR, VIC and BRS on the foundation Programme. He typically supervises graduation projects related to English and/or Arabic phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse. As a teacher, Abdullah Al Badi is primarily interested in reading skills and teaching grammar in context.
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Yevette Mathew
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Yevette Mathew is an English Language lecturer in the Foundation of English Language Studies at Majan College. She joined Majan University College in February 2014. Yevette was a lecturer at Dhofar University. She holds her Masters in English Language and Literature, Diploma in TESOL (UK) and Certificate in IELTS(UK). She has 18 years of rich teaching experience. She has handled a range of both teaching at school and college to Omani students for 14 years. She is also a member of TESOL Arabia. She has presented papers at Sultan Qaboos University, ELT Conference. She believes in moulding the linguistic abilities of the learners in such a way that they are diligently compatible to meet the requirements and challenges of the ever competitive outside world.
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Jainy Varghese
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Joined Majan college as a lecturer in Mathematics in September 2014. She finished both her Master Degree and Bachelor Degree in Mathematics. Also she holds B Ed in Mathematics. She worked as a Mathematics Lecturer for more than 4 years in India. Her research include Pure Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. She Prefers to teach using inductive and deductive method which help the students to find their own path and proceeds according to their own light.
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Hajer AL-Majarafi
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Ms. Hajer graduated from Majan College in January 2014, and in June 2014 she started working as an English Language teacher in the Faculty of English Language at Majan College (MCUC). She received her Bachelor degree in English Language, validated and awarded by the University of Bedfordshire, UK with an overall classification of 1st class borderline and she received certificates of Academic Excellence and Achievement. She is teaching different modules in the foundation programme. She is a TESOL member and presently pursuing her CELTA as she believe that every finish line is the beginning of a new race. She found Majan College an ideal place for studying with an encouraging environment for career growth.
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Dr. Christopher Gnana
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Dr. Christopher holds a PhD in ELT (English Language Teaching), M.Phil. and B.Ed. in English, and a CELTA from Cambridge University. He has been teaching English Language since 1996. He began his teaching career in Oman with the Ministry of Education in 1996, and continued working there till 2005. He joined the Higher College of Technology in Muscat in 2007 as a Lecturer in English Language, and served at the Post Foundation program for 8 years. Dr. Christopher joined Majan University College in Sept. 2015 and he is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English Language Studies. He teaches Academic Writing in the Foundation Program, and Academic Reading and Writing for undergraduates. His research area is ‘developing communicative competence’ and he has published five research articles in reputed refereed journals. Teaching is a passion for Dr. Christopher, and he has been striving hard to make it even more effective every time he meets his students in the class.
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Muhammad Abdul Sajid
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Muhammad Abdul Sajid joined Majan University College in April, 2014 as lecturer in Mathematics. He received Master (Mathematics) and Bachelor degree in (Mathematics & Statistics) from the Punjab University Lahore (PK). At Majan College he coordinates and teaches modules in the areas of Basic and Applied Mathematics in the foundation Programme and Basic Mathematics and Statistics in Business Management. As a researcher, Muhammad Sajid is primarily interested in the fields of Pure & Applied Mathematics and Statistics. He prefers to motivate the students to become independent learners in the field of mathematics.
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