Betty Lanteigne

Dr. Betty Lanteigne, Assistant Professor, holds a PhD in rhetoric and linguistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, specialising in sociolinguistics, language assessment and cross-cultural communication.

She has taught ESL/EFL in the USA, Palestine, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE for 14 years, and developed an intensive English program and an English education program.

As an English Teaching Fellow, she was the English language specialist on a case study team for children with learning disabilities, and as a Fulbright Dissertation Fellow, she investigated tasks of non-Western English to address issues of culturally inappropriate language assessment.