Angela Hakim

Assistant Teaching Professor

Contact

515-294-2180

437 Ross Hall
527 Farm House Ln
Ames IA
50011-1054

Bio

Angela Hakim is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of English. She teaches courses in Academic English, ISU Foundation Communication, Advanced Communication, and the B.A. in Linguistics, including a course in sociolinguistics. Angela serves as the Director of Academic English and leads the Second Language Writing Research Group. Her primary scholarly interests include English for Academic Purposes, second language writing, and genre-based writing pedagogy. She has published research in journals such as the Journal of Second Language Writing, Studies in Higher Education, and TESOL Journal, and she serves as an associate editor for the journal Applied Linguistics.

Courses I teach

ENGL 1500
ENGL 2500
ENGL 1010B
ENGL 1010C
ENGL 1010D
ENGL 3140
ENGL 3220

Research areas:

English for Academic Purposes (EAP); second language writing; writing instructors’ pedagogical knowledge, practices, and professional development; models of academic literacy provision in higher education; genre-based writing instruction; English Medium Instruction (EMI).

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Applied Linguistics and Writing Studies) Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication, School of Education, Communication, and Society, King’s College London, London, U.K. (June 2023)

Master of Arts (Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching) King’s College London, London, U.K. (2020)

Master of Education (English Language Teaching and TESOL) University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO (2011)

Bachelor of Arts (Political Science and Russian Language) Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (2007)

Affiliations

Applied Linguistics

Selected Publications

Wingate, U., & Hakim, A. (Eds.). (under contract). The Bloomsbury handbook of academic literacy. Bloomsbury.
Wingate, U., & Hakim, A. (in press). The contribution of EAP practitioners embedded in the disciplines. In L.L. Wong & K. Hyland (Eds.). Innovations in specialised Englishes: Emerging trends in EAP and ESP. Routledge.
Hakim, A. (in press). Embedding academic literacies in U.S. universities: WAC, WID, and WEC. In N. Murray (Ed.) Embedding academic literacies in university curricula: Perspectives and case studies. Cambridge University Press.
Hakim, A., Tardy, C.M., & Palese, E. (2025). Beyond models: SLW teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and instructional practices with mentor texts. Journal of Second Language Writing,70, 101261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101261
Hakim, A. (2026). Supporting students’ academic literacy development in EMI. TESOL Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.70098
Hakim, A. & Wingate, U. (2024). Collaborative approaches to embedding academic literacy instruction in the curriculum: Examples from U.K. universities, Studies in Higher Education. 10.1080/03075079.2024.2397695
Hakim, A. (2025). Implementing AI literacy teaching in university-level L2 writing instruction: Exploring one pedagogical approach. TESOL Journal, 16(3), e70050. https://doi.org.10.1002/tesj.70050
Hakim, A., Xu, W., Fedewa, K., Lo, W. H., Kessler, M., & Tardy, C. M. (2024). Researching genre knowledge across languages and contexts. Language Teaching 1–5.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444823000484