Doctoral Student in Middle East Studies
About
Yazeed Al-Awaysheh is a PhD student in the Department of Middle East Studies, examining Arabic psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and second language acquisition. He earned his B.A. in English Language and Literature from the Hashemite University (2022). In 2023, he was selected for the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program, through which he taught Arabic and served as a cultural ambassador in the Department of Languages and Literature at Benedictine University.
Yazeed’s research investigates Arabic applied linguistics and second language acquisition through neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic methods. His work focuses on the neural representation of lexical access, syntactic and morphosyntactic processing, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying meaning construction. Central to his research is an interest in how the brain processes morphemic decomposition in non-concatenative languages, particularly Arabic and other Semitic languages.
Research Interests:
- Arabic Applied Linguistics
- Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
- Second Language Acquisition
- Bilingual Sentence and Morphological Processing
- Morphemic Decomposition
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