Dr. Chekra Allani is an assistant
Professor of Children’s Literature at the Arab Open University, Kuwait Branch.
She held several academic and administrative positions at the university such
as Program Coordinator, Dean’s Assistant, Director of the Language Unit, and is
currently Courses Chair of Children’s Literature and of French language courses,
She is a prolific researcher in blended learning. Her recent research
interests lie in World Literature, Children’s Literature, and Women Studies.
Courses chaired and taught AOU:
EA300A & B Children’s Literature. 16-credit-hour courses.
French language Communication Skills, University Elective course.
LB160 Business Communication Skills, 8 credit-hour course.
Courses taught and
coordinated AOU:
EL112 English Language Communication Skills
DD 121/ 122 Introduction to Social Sciences, 8 credit-hour courses.
A-210A & B Approaching Literature: Shakespearean Drama, Realist
Novel and Romantic Writings, 16 credit-hour courses.
Courses designed and introduced in the ELL Program AOU:
FR101 French Language
SL101 Spanish Language
EL240 Drama: From the Classics to the Modern
ASP Arabic for Specific Purposes (diplomacy) Course designed and taught
at Al Babtain Academy Kuwait
Arabic
language course to Anglophone and to
Francophone ambassadors and diplomats.
FSP French for Specific Purposes
(Law)
Lexique Juridique Français. Course taught and chaired at the Faculty of
Law.
Kuwait University
Current Chair of the EA300A/ EA300B Children’s Literature Courses
Current Chair of the French Language course FR101
ELL Program Coordinator 2010/2016
Chaired the Orientation and the Foundation Program Courses EL98/ 99/ EL111 and EL112 Courses
Chaired the LB160 Course Business Communication Skills
Branch Courses Coordinator of EA300A, EA300B Children’s Literature courses
Branch Courses Coordinator of the French and the
Spanish Language Courses FR101 and SL101
Branch Courses Coordinator A-210A and A210B- Realist Novel/ Shakespearean Drama and Romantic Writings.
Member of the FLS Masters Board Committee
Member of the Local Accreditation Committee
Member of the AOU-Revalidation Committee
Member of the Library and Research Committee
Member of the Professional Development Committee
Member of the Kuwait Branch Academic Committee
Member of the Disciplinary Committee
Editor of the MA Material in English Literature. (Literary Handbook to Literary Research and Courses Guides)
Prepared Validation Reports for the MA Exit Awards and MA program in English Literature.
Prepared the Annual Monitoring Report. (AMR)
Translator of the AOU 1st International Conference Program and participants’ abstracts from English to Arabic and vice-versa
Designer of the new language courses within the ELU: French and Spanish courses.
Designer of Modern Drama EL240 module– A four credit-hour elective course
Co-prepared the EL121 Introduction to Literature Course Guide
“Making TMAs
Meaningful: An Evaluation of the Online Assessment Within a Blended Learning
System” American Journal of
Science Education Research. (January 2024) 308. DOI:
10.47991/2835-6764/AJSER-157
Co-Existence or No-Existence” When the Haboob Sings. Nejoud
Al Yagout. Columbus, OH: Gatekeeper
Press, 2019. ISBN 9781642376081. 278 pp. £7.07.Volume 70, Issue 268, English: Journal of the English Association,
Spring 2021, Oxford Academic. Oxford University Press
“Teaching Language through Literature” 6th TESOL International
Kuwait Gulf University of Science and Technology. Held on February 6th and 7th
2020
A Translator and General Editor from Arabic to English of The Epic
for Peace. (8000 lines of poetry translation and editing) Published by Al Babteen
Academy. March 2018
“Nature in Naomi Shihab Nye’s works: A Vehicle for Creating
Peace”
Arab World
English journal for translation and literary studies (AWEJ-tls ) August, 2017 http://awej-tls.org/?p=925
Motivating the Independent Learner at the Arab Open University,
Kuwait Presented in
the Netherlands 17th Conference on Education and Development Psychology- August 6-7-2015. Amsterdam. Published in August
2015 International Journal of
Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering
Vol:9, No:8, 2015
“Sheikh Abdullah Al
Jaber: Educational Reformer” Documentary Translation from Arabic and English to
French March
2015 Al Diwan Al Amiri Historical Documents
& Libraries Centre. Published by Al
Diwan Al Amiri Historical Documents & Libraries Centre
Mobile Learning: A Comparative Study for the Future of Blended
Learning December 2014 Second
International Conference on Advances in Economics, Management and Social Study
– EMS 2014 – Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Published in
the International Journal of Business and Management Study – IJBMS, Volume 2:
Issue1 (ISBN: 2372-3955)
(الترجمة التطبيقية ومخاطرها) مجلة الكويت
العدد 379 لشهر مايو 2015 .
Evaluation of the Blended Learning System in Higher Education: AOU –
Kuwait, presented at the International Conference on Knowledge and Education
Technology (ICKET 2012), Paris, July 7-9, 2012, submitted for
publishing at the International association of Computer Science and Information
Technology (IACSIT).
The Demand and Supply Imbalances In Blended
Learning at Arab Open University – Kuwait, Presented at
Multidisciplinary conference, American University of Rome, 31 October – 3 November, 2011, Published at
International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS).
Measuring
Students’ Satisfaction in Blended Learning at the Arab Open University – Kuwait, The
international Conference on Digital Information Processing and communications,
VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, July 7-9, 2011, Ostrava,
Czech Republic. Digital
Information Processing and Communications 2011, Volume
188, Part 7, 333-341, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22389-1_30
The Efficiency of E-Learning System, Case
Study: Arab Open University – Kuwait, International Conference on Education and
New Learning Technologies, July 5th-7th, 2010 Barcelona,
SPAIN. EDULEARN10 Proceedings, ISBN: 978-84-613-9386-2, pp. 2854-2860
