Ali H. S. Hajjaj

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Ali Hussein Salman Hajjaj (1933–2004) was the first non-English speaking person to acquire a Ph.D. in

Hajjaj was born in

Hajjaj contributed to English Language Teaching (ELT) to native English language speakers as well as English as a Second Language (

Education

He graduated with a B.A. in

He received his Ph.D. in applied linguistics, from the University of Lancaster in 1979. The special field was Functional Nature of Language. The Title of his Ph.D. Thesis was "The Nature and Understanding of the Term Function and its Application to ESP".

Career

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Hajjaj's book Errors in English among Arabic speakers, co-authored with Nayef Kharma,^[1] was one of the core works cited in a later paper "The English pronunciation of Arabic speakers: A data-driven approach to segmental error identification" by Rehmann et al.^[2]

Selected publications

• Hajjaj, Ali (1999). Arab students` writing mistakes: Renewing the issue. Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences, University of Jordan, 26.2: 621-633.
• Ali Hajjaj & Nayef Kharma (1989) Errors in English among Arabic Speakers: Analysis and Remedy. Longman, London. Co-Author

• Errors in English among Arabic speakers: analysis and remedy / Nayef Kharma, Ali Hajjaj. Beirut: York Press: Librairie du Liban, 1997 (
  ISBN 9780866856836
  )