Summary / Notes

Shafqat Zaidi holds a PhD in Applied Comparative Linguistics from the Department of English, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He has been teaching English Language & Linguistics since 1997. His PhD dissertation concerns Pakistani ESL learners’ acquisition of English cleft constructions across L2 proficiency levels and learning styles. His research interests mainly include areas of Syntax-Pragmatic Interface, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, SLA, and Applied Linguistics. He has presented his research work in many international conferences in Malaysia, and Pakistan. He has conducted seminars/ talks on research methods in syntax and Morphology, role of multiculturalism and multilingualism in second language acquisition and syntax- phonology interface. He has led workshops on developing grammaticality judgment tasks to measure grammatical knowledge of ESL learners. Currently, Shafqat Zaidi is serving as senior lecturer at Dept of English, Riphah International University Lahore, Pakistan.