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Laila ElSerty

  • Position: Instructor
  • Department: Department of Rhetoric and Composition
Brief Biography

Laila ElSerty teaches rhetoric and composition at The American University in Cairo (AUC).  On the academic level, ElSerty graduated in 2011 from AUC’s MA TEFL (now TESOL) program, the program that awarded her a two year teaching fellowship. Currently, she is working on her PhD dissertation in Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis. On the professional level, she was the co-chair of the NileTESOL 2022 Conference and is an active member of the conference’s organizing committee. She gave presentations at national and international conferences. She participated in many teacher training programs. She has also been involved in the design of curricula and the coordination of educational programs such as AUC’s Road to College program. For over 20 years, ElSerty has been teaching a variety of courses to both undergraduate and graduate students. These include English for academic purposes, business writing, research writing, and linguistics and applied linguistics courses.

Research Interest
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Genre Analysis
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Multimodal Discourse Analysis
  • Meta-cognition
  • Curriculum Design
  • Global Education
  • Assessment
  • Technology-Assisted Language Learning
Education
  • PhD Candidate, Linguistics, Cairo University
  • MA, TEFL (now TESOL), the American University in Cairo
  • BA, English Language and Literature, Cairo University

  • Bonna, N, Demian, A., ElSerty, L., Jabr, R., & Seddiek, H. (2023). Incorporating Critical Thinking in the Curriculum. NileTESOL, Egypt.

  • ElSerty, L. (2022). Genre Analysis of the Abstracts of EAP and AAP Journal Articles: A Comparative Study with Pedagogical Implications. The Oxford Education Research Symposium, the University of Oxford.

  • ElSerty, L. (2022). How to Submit a Proposal to NileTESOL Conference. NileTESOL, Egypt.

  • ElSerty, L. (2021). Global Education in the EAP Classroom: Creating Feasible Global Learning Opportunities. NileTESOL, Egypt.

  • ElSerty, L. & Elserafy, A. (2020). Student reflections in the Time of Corona: A Means to an End. SSTESOL, Florida.

  •  ElSerty, L. (2019). Project Based Instruction in a Blended Context, Neighbors and Bridges, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.

  •  ElSerty, L. & Baza, M. (2019). Rubric Interpretations: The 'Said' and the not 'Said'! The International Perspectives on Assessing World Languages (IPAWL) conference. The American University in Cairo, Egypt.