Fatima Alkhaldi

English Language Instructor with an MSc in Developmental Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. Experienced in teaching General English courses and designing assessments for foundation-year students to improve language proficiency and academic performance. Draws on expertise in bilingualism and second language acquisition to inform instructional design and enhance effective language development, supported by skills in quantitative analysis and experimental methodologies. Dedicated to fostering academic success through evidence-based teaching practices.

• Scientific Research Writing Skills, Technical and Vocational Training Corporation
• Successful Scientific Research Program (Ambitious track & Rising track), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
• The Stages of Preparing & Writing Scientific Research, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
• Effective Planning Skills Training Course, King Abdulaziz University

• Bimodal Bilingualism and Cross-Modal Communication

Evaluated empirical research comparing bimodal and unimodal bilingual communication patterns, focusing on language switching, code-blending, and co-speech gesture production.

• Does Word Order Affect Children's Language Acquisition?

Investigated whether canonical word order (SOV vs. SVO) influences early noun–verb acquisition patterns across languages. Analysed CHILDES corpora from Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Cantonese-speaking children to compare lexical development across typologically distinct language families.

• The Role of Input Frequency and Complexity in Wh-Question Acquisition

Analysed naturalistic caregiver–child interaction data to examine the influence of input frequency and syntactic complexity on wh-question development. Used CLAN to compare acquisition patterns against caregiver input and complexity-based theoretical predictions.

• Children’s Use of Gesture to Support Communication

Examined how young children use representational gestures to support spoken communication, with particular focus on gesture–speech integration in early language development.

• Slip Technique (Word Pairs) Study

Investigated speech error production and lexical bias effects among Saudi Arabic–English bilinguals using a slip technique paradigm. Examined whether language proficiency influences error patterns and the tendency to produce real versus non-words across L1 and L2.

• Corpus Linguistics Analysis Using the British National Corpus (BNC)

Applied corpus linguistics tools using the BNC to analyse word meanings and disambiguate semantically ambiguous words in context, highlighting lexico-grammatical properties not fully captured in traditional dictionaries.

• Criticism of Research Papers, Technical and Vocational Training Corporation
• Professional Development - supporting teachers through Oxford resources
• Critical Thinking Skills for the 21st Century, TESOL Kuwait

Arabic – Native

English – Advanced (IELTS overall score of 7)