External Reviewer Details

Casimir Ignatius

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Casimir Ignatius has been with the English Language Centre, Nizwa College of Technology for 20 years.  He is a PhD in Applied Linguistics and he has done research in Bi-/Multilingualism and English Language Teaching in India. He has presented 20 research papers on Innovative Approaches to ELT such as ELT Curriculum Development, Independent learning, Teaching Technical Writing to Engineering students, Designing ELT materials, and Language Maintenance /Shift/Loss in several national and international seminars. He has developed a new paradigm for Teaching English as a Second Language, which is known as The Interface Approach to ELT. He has taught a wide variety of English Language courses such as Introduction to Phonetics, Sociolinguistics, ELT, and Advanced Writing in English to the graduate students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Advanced Writing, Reading, Technical Communication, TOEFL, and IELTS to the Omani students of Nizwa College of Technology. He worked as the Head of Section-English Language Curriculum and Teaching Methods from 2004 to 2020 in the English Language Center/Nizwa College of Technology. Additionally, he worked as the Quality Assurance Officer-Academic from 2018 to 2021.  He was an External Examiner for several M.A Dissertations of the Department of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. Moreover, he was an Overseas Examiner/ adjudicator for several Ph.D theses from different universities in India. He has been on the panel of external reviewers of OAAA since 2009 and he was one of the external reviewers for GFPA Audit of A’Sharqiyah University, Ibra, Oman in 2017.