Contributions of Africans in Birmingham

Description:Adel Asker is a Libyan Research student with the Languages, Discourses and Society Research Group at the School of Education, University of Birmingham. Adel qualified as an English teacher and taught English in Libya before he came to the UK to do a Master’s degree. He completed a Master’s degree in translation and theories of interpreting and then went back home and worked at the university as a junior lecturer assistant. Adel taught under graduate students at the university, in Libya. In 2008 Adel was sent by his university to do a PhD which he started in January 2008. Adel will finish his PHD next year and his research thesis focuses on “The impact of the learning situation on language learning motivation: An empirical study examining the relationship between L2 possible selves and the L2 learning situation among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Libya”.