Newcastle University

Dr. Khattab received her first degree in English Language from the American University in Beirut in 1994, and continued her studies and received a Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, in which she taught in a secondary school in Beirut for three years. She received her Masters of Arts in Linguistics and English Language Teaching at the University of Leeds, where she also broadened her interests into more theoretical aspects of linguistics and in bilingual acquisition, particularly the acquisition of phonetics and phonology. She received her doctoral degree in speech production by English-Arabic bilingual children from the University of Leeds in 2003. Since then, she has served as the Senior Lecturer in Phonetics at the University of Newcastle.

Dr. Khattab is a member of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP), International Phonetic Association, and the Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB). She received the UTLC (University Teaching and Learning Committee) INNOVATION FUND in 2006 for researching online resources for practical phonetics.