Dr. Nor Zainiyah Norita Mokhtar
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
English Language Division
Kulliyyah of Sustainable Tourism and Contemporary Languages
Linguistics - Pragmatics, Linguistics - Semantics, Intercultural Communication, Higher Education, Literacy Challenges in Early Education, Intercultural competence/ Global competence
Nor Mokhtar, Ph.D. has been in the education field for 27 years and has been in service with the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) for 24 years. She completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Her research interests revolve around teaching and learning strategies, linguistics (particularly Pragmatics and Semantics), Intercultural Communication from the linguistic perspective and areas pertaining to literacy issues amidst children in primary education. She is the Coordinator for the High Immersive Programmes under the Flagship of National Education Philosophy, IIUM which involves a collaboration of programmes with schools in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore and the United States of America. In 2021, she started her fellowship in a Collaborative Online more...
Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, 2016.
Master of English As a Second Language, Universiti Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, 2004.
TESL, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia, 1997.