Abdelkrim Mouhib, a Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Linguistics Department, has rich experience in teaching several languages and working with multilingual learners. Abdelkrim always makes his classes enjoyable and fun when people can feel the flavor of Morocco and communicate in Arabic.

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Abdelkrim reflects: “Besides the courses I have been teaching for nearly two decades now: EFL for eight years, Arabic as a foreign language (AFL), and Arabic Linguistics for ten years now, I have recently embarked on teaching abroad. The Moroccan Experience, the course I teach my U.S. students in Morocco, has started as a regular culture course adopting a few cultural theories that look at practices, products, perspectives, communities, and persons. However, due to my research interest in sociolinguistics and particularly linguistic landscape, I have geared towards linguistic landscape as a point of departure for the students to begin their cultural learning. Being aware of multilingualism and multiculturalism becoming the norm and being asked to adopt an ethnographic approach in learning about the Moroccan culture, the students get fascinated by the outcome.“