Amani Badawy

Name: Amani Abd El Hamid Badawy El Sayyed Ahmad

Address: Villa 16, Block 19029, 4^th District, El Obour city, Qalyoubia, Egypt.

Mobile: 01000023418

E-mail: amanibadawy@yahoo.com

Academic rank: Professor

Nationality: Egyptian

Date of Birth: 11-4-1962

Gender: Female

Social Status: Married with two daughters and three grandchildren

 

Teaching Assistant

at the Department of English Language and Literature- Cairo University-1983

Assistant Lecturer

at the Department of English Language and Literature- Cairo University-1990

 

Assistant Professor

at the Department of English Language and Literature- Cairo University-1998

 

Associate Professor

at the Department of English Language and Literature- Cairo University-2011

 

Professor

of Linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature- Cairo University-2016

 

• PH. D in Linguistics with a first-class honour degree entitled "Compensation Strategies in the Interlanguage of Egyptian Students Learning English"/Cairo  University in 1998

 

• M.A in Linguistics with the grade EXCELLENT entitled "The Acquisition of Inflectional Morphology by Cairene Egyptian Children from Low Socio-Economic Classes" /Cairo University in 1990

 

• Diploma in Applied Linguistics with a general grade VERY GOOD in 1984, from the Department of English Language and Literature/ Faculty of Arts at  Cairo University

 

• Excellent BA from the Faculty of Arts- The Department of English Language and Literature/Cairo University in 1983 

 

 

Other competences:

Have attended and met the standards required for the completion of the following training courses:

 

• Scientific Research in 2011
• Time and Conference Management in April 2011
•  International Publishing in April 2011
• Credit Hour Systems in 2011
• Incorporation of Technology into Education  in 2013
• The role of Extracurricular Activities in Enhancing Education in 2014
• New Insights into Assessment in 2014
• New Trends in Cooperative Learning in2014
• Examination Systems and Students’ Assessment in 2015
• New Trends in Teaching in 2015
• Presentation Skills in 2015
• Strategic Planning in 2015
• Quality Standards in the Teaching Process in 2016
• University Code of Ethics in 2016
• Arabic and English Editing in Scientific Research in 2016

 

 

1. Teaching the following undergraduate linguistics courses at the Department of English/Faculty of Arts/ Cairo University from 1984 to date:

 

• Pragmatics
• Syntax
• Introduction to Linguistics
• Essay writing
• Phonetics
• Selected topics in linguistics (language acquisition)

 

2.  Teaching the following post graduate linguistics courses at the Department of English/Faculty of Arts/ Cairo University from 1998 to date:

• Language Acquisition
• Discourse Analysis
• Research Methodology

.

3.  Teaching a level-3 course in linguistics at Arab Open University in Egypt from 2005 to 2007.

 

4. Teaching a Language Acquisition course in a TEFL Program offered by Cairo University Center for Languages and Translation in 2011 and 2012. 

 

 

1. 1.     Publishing research papers

   :

1)           Badawy, A. (2001). "The Parsing of Ambiguous Sentences by Egyptian Second Language Learners of English". Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, 61(3) Egypt: Cairo University.

 

2)           Badawy, A. (2003). "Avoidance in the Use of L1 Idioms in Translation Tasks by Egyptian Language Learners". Cairo Studies in English. Egypt: Cairo University.

 

3)           Badawy, A. (2006) "A Critical Discourse Analysis of Letters-to the Editor: Patterns of Transitivity and Thematization". Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Comparative Literature: Power and the Role of the Intellectual at Cairo University.

 

4)           Badawy, A. (2010) “Syntactic packaging in Egyptian children’s EFL narratives”.   Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, 70(1). Egypt: Cairo University.

 

5)           Badawy, A. (2010) “Pragmatic Development of Arabic refusals”. Cairo Studies in English. Egypt: Cairo University.

 

6)           Badawy, A. & Salah EL-din, Y. (2014). “Tracking emotional upheavals in Egypt during the Revolution: A linguistic analysis of tweets”. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Comparative Literature: Creativity and the Revolution (2012), Egypt: Cairo University, pp. 379-401.

 

7)           Badawy, A. & Anwar, R. (2015). “Spelling errors of Egyptian early and late adolescent EFL learners: Is there a fundamental difference?” Proceedings of the conference entitled Internationalizing the Arabic Language held by the English and Arabic Departments at Cairo University (2013). Dar Al-Kutub Deposit No. 38/23 2015. ISBN: 978 977 403 9713. Faculty of Arts: Cairo University, pp. 65-95.

 

8)           Badawy, A. (2015). “How language is practiced in ELT course books on different levels”. Hermes, 4 (2), pp. 9-51. ISSN 2090-8555

 

9)           Badawy, A. (2016).”Sex differences in EFL large-Scale assessment of Egyptian graduates”. Accepted for publication in Cairo Studies in English. To be published in the International Research Journal of Humanities, Engineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2 (12), June 2016. ISBN 978-81-909047-9-7

 

10)                       Badawy, A. & Anwar, R. “Egyptian presidential speeches: A cluster approach to rhetorical analysis”. Presented at Cairo University International Symposium “Language and Literature of Resistance” held from 11th to 13th November 2014 at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University and published in Youssef, L. and Golson, E. (2017). Recontextualizing Resistance. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Cambridge: England. ISBN: 978-1-5275-0012-9

 

1. 2.     SupervisingMA theses and PhD dissertations submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University

   :

 

1. A PhD thesis

   by Khaled Mahmoud Tawfik on "The Translation of Figurative Language in the Qur'an with Reference to Arberry, Dawood, Ghali and Yusuf Ali" in 2003

 

1. An MA thesis

   by Shahinaz Kamel Marzouk on "Approximation and Circumlocution Strategies in the Written Performance of Egyptian Learners of English" in 2003

 

1. An MA thesis

   by Kevork Wanis Kazandijan on "The Correlation between English Lexical Collocations and the Spoken Fluency of Egyptian Learners of English" in 2004

 

1. An MA thesis

   by Doaa Yehia El Wardany on “An Investigation of the Influence of Involvement Load vs. Frequency of Exposure on Learners’ Incidental Second Language Acquisition and Retention” in 2005

 

1. An MA Thesis

   by Naglaa El Sayed Seddiek on “The Effect of Processing Instruction on the Avoidance Strategy of Adult Arab Learners of English” in 2005

 

1. An MA thesis

   submitted to the English Department-Cairo University by Wessam Ahmad El Said titled “The language of power: A pragma-stylistic analysis of Edward Albi’s play Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf” in 2005

 

1. An MA Thesis

   submitted to the English Department-Cairo University by Asma Abdul-Malik Salem on "The Use of Communication Strategies in the Written Performance of Yemeni EFL Learners at Taiz University" in 2006

 

1. A PhD Thesis

   submitted to the English Department-Cairo University by Shahinaz Kamel Amin on "Effects of Input-Based Grammar instruction on the Acquisition of Grammar by Egyptian Learners of English" in 2006

 

1. A PhD Thesis

   submitted to the English Department-Cairo University by Muhammad Ali Al-Otheimeen on “Using CALL and the Web for Vocabulary Acquisition: A Comparison of Interactionist and Incidental Approaches” in 2006

 

1. A PhD Thesis

   submitted to the English Department-Cairo University by Hoda Mohammad Ramadan on “The Effect of Age and Amount of Exposure to EFL on the Cognitive Performance of Egyptian Learners” in 2008

 

1.  An MA Thesis

   submitted to the English Department-Cairo University by Fatma Muhammad El-Mahdy on “The Effect of an Integrative FonF Approach on the Grammatical Competence of Egyptian Students” in 2009

 

1.  A PhD dissertation

   submitted to the English Department-Cairo University by Nasr Ali Ahmed titled “The Political and Social Objectives of Language Curricula in Egypt from a Discourse Analysis Perspective” in 2010

 

1.  A PhD dissertation

   submitted to the English Department-Cairo University by Asma Abdul-Malik Salem on “The Effect of Strategic Competence Training on the Performance of Intermediate EFL Learners” in 2010

 

1.  A PhD dissertation

   submitted to the English Department-Cairo University by Mervat Mohammad El Gindy titled “Automated Essay Scoring Validity for Nonnative English Speakers (Arabic Native Speakers)” in 2011

 

1.  An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Amira Hanafy Al-zouheiry titled “The use of Time-gaining strategies by EFL learners of different proficiency levels” in 2011

 

1.  A PhD dissertation

   submitted to the English Department-Cairo University by Kevork Wanis Kazandijan titled                   “The Effect of Pre-reading Lexical Assistance (glossing vs thematic clustering) on the Reading Comprehension of Egyptian EFL Learners” in 2011

 

1.  A PhD dissertation

   submitted to the Department of English-Cairo University by Rasha Senger titled “Enhancing Egyptian EFL Learner’s Writing Proficiency, Critical Consciousness and Empowerment through a Freirean Problem-Posing Paradigm” in November 2013

 

1.  An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Noureen Hussein entitled "  The Effect of Using Synchronous Computer-Mediated   Communication on the Development of English Refusals of Invitations in an Egyptian EFL Context " in May 2013

 

1.  An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Noha Soubhy Ghoneim titled “The Effect of Subtitling on the Listening Comprehension of Egyptian EFL learners” in 2013

 

1.  An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Farida Abdel Hakeem Helmy titled “The Effect of EFL Learner’s  Proficiency Level on the Pragmatic Development of Compliment Responses” in 2013

 

1.  An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Hanaa Khaled Moustafa titled “The Extent of L1 Use in the Brainstorming Stage of L2 Writing and its Relation to L2 Writing Quality” in 2014

 

1. An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Amena El-Shafie titled “The effect of face to face and on-line interaction on the politeness strategies used by EFL learners” in 2013

 

1. A PhD thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Sarah Ahmad Seleem titled ““Ideological representation in a sample of American literacy textbooks  used in Egyptian Schools: A critical discourse analysis”                       “ in 2017

 

1. A PhD thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Amira Hanafy Al-Zoheiry titled   “A Linguistic study of Selected Tweets: A Genre Analysis” in 2017.

 

1. An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Alaa Ali El-Badri titled “Investigating the effect of Explicit and implicit instruction on the Acquisition of English Idioms: A case of Egyptian EFL Learners in 2017

 

1. An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Hend Mahmoud Ibrahim titled “The effect of dynamic corrective Feedback on the grammar accuracy of Egyptian EFL Learners” in 2017

 

1. An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Nourhan Ahmed el Tahlawy titled “The Effect of Using an Eclectic Approach on Egyptian Preschoolers’ EFL Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention” in Jan 2018

 

1. An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Sara Saad Abdelwahab titled “Discourse Stance Features in the Popular Science Documentary Series Through the Wormhole” in Jan 2018

 

1. An MA thesis

   submitted to the Department of English/Cairo University by Marwa Wahid Ismail titled “Synchronizing Conceptual Metaphor and Techniques of Inviting Applause for Persuasion” in March 2018

 

1. 3.     Attending/paper reading /chairing sessions in international conferences in Egypt and Greece

   :

 

• Attending

  the 31^st CDELT National Symposium on English Language Teaching “Active Learning in EFL: Introspect and prospect” held from 24^th to 25^th March 2012 at the Guest house at Ain Shams University, Cairo

• Chairing a session

  in the conference “

  Narrating the Arab Spring

  ” held from 18-20 February 2012 at Cairo University

• Chair and paper reader

  in the Eleventh International Symposium of Comparative Literature “

  Creativity and the Revolution”

  held by the English Department from 13^th to 15^th of November 2012

• Attending

  the conference held by the Faculty of Arts “

  Liberty and Human Rights

  ” from 6-8 April 2013

• Reading a paper

  in the International Conference “

  Internationalizing the Arabic Language

  ” jointly held by the Departments of English and Arabic at the Conference Hall in Cairo University Student Hostel from 28^th to 30^th of December 2013

• Reading a paper

  in the Twelfth International Symposium on Comparative Literature: “

  Literature and Language of Resistance

  ” held by the Department from Tuesday 11^th to Thursday 13^th of November 2014

• Attending

   the “

  FirstQuarterly Linguistics Seminar

  ” held by the Dept. on 25th of March 2015

• Attending

  the conference “

  Liberty and Human rights

  ” held by the Faculty of Arts on the period from 4-6 April 2015

• Reading a paper

  titled “Sex differences in EFL Large-scale Assessment of Egyptian Graduates” in

  ERPA International Congresses on Education

  held in Athens/Greece from 4-7 June 2015

• Chairing

  two sessions in

  ERPA International Congresses on Education

  held in Athens/Greece from 4-7 June 2015

• Attending

  the “

  Second Quarterly Linguistics Seminar

  ” held by the Dept. on 20th of October 2015

• Reading a paper

  titled Sex Differences in EFL Large-scale Assessment of Egyptian Graduates at

  the “Third Quarterly Linguistics Seminar”

  held by the Dept. on 15th of December 2015

• Attending

  the “

  Fourth Quarterly Linguistics Seminar

  ” held by the Dept. on 23 February 2016

• Chairing

  the “

  Fifth Quarterly Linguistics Seminar

  ” held by the Dept. on 16 April 2016

• Attending

  the “

  Sixth Quarterly Linguistics Seminar

  ” held by the Dept. on 15 October 2016

• Chairing

  a session in the Thirteen International Symposium on Comparative Literature: Voices of/from Africa
  (15-17 November 2016)

• Attending

  the “

  Sixth Quarterly Linguistics Seminar

  ” held by the Dept. on 17 December 2016

• Chairing

  a session at the conference “

  Liberty and Human Rights

  ” held by the Faculty of Arts on the period from 8-10 April 2017

• Attending and participating as a speaker

  in the Conference held at the Faculty of Engineering of Cairo University titled English for Life: Opportunities and Challenges on 12^th October, 2017

• Attending

  the “

  Tenth Quarterly Linguistics Seminar

  ” held by the Dept. on 15 October 2017

•  
  Attending

  the “

  Eleventh Quarterly Linguistics Seminar

  ” held by the Dept. on 23 December 2017

 

1. 4.     Participating in workshops

   held at Cairo University Center for Foreign Languages and Translation, A-mid East and the International Students Bureau, and the Department of English language and Literature at Cairo University, in the period from 3-4 January 2012 until 2016.

 

1. 5.     Refereeing theses/dissertations to obtain equalization from the Supreme Council of Universities

   :

 

• PHD dissertation of Mohamed Fathi Ahmed Othman in Linguistics from Manchester University/England to obtain equalization from the Supreme Council of Universities in 2012
• MA thesis of Khamis Mohammad Elkilany in Linguistics from Ornal University/Malizia to obtain equalization from the Supreme Council of Universities in 2012

 

1. 6.     Participating in the organization of conferences

   :

 

• Member of the Organizing Committee

  of the

  International Conference “Egypt’s Image in World Literature”

  held from 29th till 30th of April at the Conference Hall in Cairo University Student Hostel in April 2012

 

• President of the one-day Conference

  held in honour of Nasrallah Moubasher Alterazy, an expert of Oriental manuscripts in Dar Al kotob and the first Egyptian Arab who gets membership of the Academy of Ataturk for Language, History and Culture, on 24 February 2014 in the Conference Hall of the Faculty of Arts

 

• Member of the Committee

  for the preparation of the

  Quarterly Linguistics Seminar

  held every 3 months and organized by the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University

 

1. 7.       Participating as an internal/external examiner in Viva Voce examinations of Master theses and PhD dissertations

   submitted to the English Departments at various universities in Egypt from 2012 until now:

 

1)    Master thesis by

Ashraf Ateyya Ateyya

entitled “Excessive Field Independence and Reading Comprehension of Expository Texts” on the 20th of May 2012 at the English Department -

CairoUniversity

 

2)    Master thesis by

Mohammad El-Sawy

entitled “Egyptian EFL Speakers’ Direction-Giving Strategies: A Cross-Cultural, Cross-Linguistic Study" on the 6th of June 2012 at the Faculty of Arts,

Ain Shams University

 

3)    Master thesis by

Sherine Abdel Mallak

entitled “Asymmetry in Doctor-Patient Interaction in Arabic: A Conversational Analysis” on the 18th of July 2012 at the Faculty of Arts,

Cairo University

 

4)    Master thesis by

Waleed Nureldeen

entitled “The Relationship between EFL Proficiency and the Structure of Oral Narrative Discourse of Egyptian Females" on the 4th of November at the Faculty of Arts,

Cairo University

 

5)    Master thesis by

Sarah Fathy Abdel-Gayyed

entitled “A Linguistic Study of Verbal Humor in Selected Episodes from the Situation Comedy Friends" on the 20th of December 2012 at the Department of English,

Cairo University

 

6)    Master thesis

Heba Bakry

entitled “A Linguistic Analysis of Recommendation Letters by Native and Non-native” on 11th June 2013 at the Department of English,

Cairo University

 

7)   

PhD dissertation by

May El Falaky

entitled “Systematic Functional Analysis of American Presidential Debates: A Corpus Linguistic Approach” on 25 June 2013 at Department of English,

Helwan University

 

8)    Master thesis by

Ziad Mohmoud Fahmy

entitled “Compiling an English-Arabic Dictionary of Aviation Terms and their Collocations” on 20 January 2014 at the Department of English Language,

Helwan University

 

9)    Master thesis by

Heba Mohsen Sayed Mohamed

entitled “A Linguistic Analysis of Investment Banks’ Security Recommendation Reports" on 8 May 2014 at the Department of English,

Cairo University

 

10)       PhD dissertation by

Hala Rashed Hosni

titled “Meta-discourse in the discussion section of English and Arabic linguistics research articles: A cross linguistic study” on 20 January 2015 at the English Department,

Fayyoum University

 

11)       Master thesis by Marwa Mounir Saleh titled “Fictional Point of View in Dorris Lessing’s The Golden Book and Briefing for a Descent into Hell: A computer Assisted Stylistic Analysis” on 21 April 2015 submitted to the Department of English,

Helwan University

 

12)    

Master thesis by Ola Rabea Younis titled “The Influence of  the Latin Language on the English Language in the Renaissance” on 24^th of May 2016 submitted to the Department of Greek and Latin Languages,

Cairo University

 

13)  Master thesis by Islam Hamdy Mohammed Abdel-Ma’boud titled “The Effect of Genre and Choice of Coordinator on Binomial Reversibility in American English: A Corpus-based Study” in July 2017 submitted to the Department of Greek and Latin Languages, Cairo University

 

14)  Participating as an internal examiner in the viva examination of the Master thesis by Mayada Mohamed Tawfik Zaki titled “Interactional and Syntactic complexity in Argumentative EFL Discourse: Academic Essays, Online Discussions, Oral Debate on 22^nd of November, 2017 at the Department of English,

Cairo University

.

 

15)  Participating as an internal examiner in the viva examination of the Master thesis by Wafaa Mohamed Abdelhameed El Nahhal titled “The effect of recasts and clarification requests on female Palestinian learners’ self-correction and oral grammatical accuracy on 14^th of January, 2018 at the Department of English,

Cairo University

.

 

16)  Participating as an internal examiner in the viva examination of the Master thesis by Omneya Gamal Hussein  titled “Effects of Role Play on Developmental stages in the Acquisition of English Questions by Egyptian Children” on 10^th of March 2018.

 

17)    Participating as an internal examiner in the viva examination of the Master thesis by Hla Salah El-Din Hussein Aly titled “Acquisition of Phrasal Verbs by EFL Learners: Integrating Data-Driven Learning and Induction-Deduction Approaches” on 17^th of March 2018.

 

 

1. 8.       Participating in setting the oral and writtenexams

   required for admission in postgraduate programs in Linguistics from 2012 till now.

 

1. 9.       Participating in different academic and administrative committees

   in the Department of English  Language and Literature:

 

1. Quality Standards Committee: “Society Engagement and Community Service” 
2. Quality Standards Committee: "Students and Allumni”
3. the committee in charge of amendments to the academic bylaws for undergraduate and postgraduate studies-Linguistics
4. the committee in charge of developing  "Cairo Studies in English" published by the Department of English - Cairo University
5. the Committee for Academic Advising /graduate programs – Linguistics
6. the Committee in charge of setting admission exams for postgraduate studies –Linguistics
7. the Quality Self-Study Committee for Students and Graduates Affairs

 

1. 10.   Participating in editorial boardsof academic journals

   :

 

• Managing Editor

  of the English section of the

  • Hermes

    1^st issue titled Problems of Translation and Interpretation, released in 2012

  • Hermes

    Volume I  - 2^nd  Issue entitled How to understand the West, released June 2012

  • Hermes

    Volume II- Issue 2, released in June 2013

  • Hermes

    Volume II- Issue 3, released in July 2013

  • Hermes

    Volume II, Issue 1, released in January 2013

  • Hermes

    Volume II- Issue IV, released in February 2013

  • Deputy Editor-in-Chief

    of Cairo University International Journal for Humanities & Social Research:  

    Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences (JARSS)

    (under construction) until November 2015

  • Member of the Editorial Board

    of the

    Pioneer Series,

    Issue 4, Essays in Language and Literature in Honor of M.M. Enani released in 2012

  • Member of the Editorial Board

    of the

    Pioneer Series

    ,  Issue 5, released in 2016 in honour of Nasrallah Moubasher Al-terazy, a well-renowned Manuscript Expert.

  • English Language Editor of Hermes

    , an

    academic journal

    published by Cairo University Center for Foreign Languages and Professional Translation  

    Issues     14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20

 

1. 11.       Revising the translation

   of Speeches that changed the world: The stories and transcripts of the moments that made history by Simon Sebag Montefoire (2005), published by Cairo University Center for Foreign Languages and Professional Translation in 2015.

2. 12.       Revising the translation

   of Political Marketing: Principles and Applications by Jennifer Lees Marshment (2009) published by Cairo University Center for Foreign Languages and Professional Translation in 2018.

3. 13.      

   Revising the book “A Glossary of Basic TOEFL Vocabulary” by Dr. Sayed Saad, published by Dar El-Wattan in Cairo Egypt in 2018.

 

1. 14.       Supervising and Coordinating

   the teaching of English language at the Faculty of Science, Cairo University, from 1999 till now

 

1. 15.       Refereeing paperssubmitted to Proceedings and academic journals

   :

• The Eleventh International Symposium on Comparative Literature: “Creativity and the Revolution”
• The Twelfth Symposium for Comparative Literature: “Language of Resistance” held by the English Department in 2012 and 2014.
• Cairo Studies in English, published by the Department of English, Cairo University
• Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, published by the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University
• Hermes, published by Cairo University Center for Foreign Languages and Professional Translation

1. 16.   Performing missions on behalf of Cairo University

   :

 

• Travelling to Sharjah, on behalf of Cairo University and the Centre for Languages and Translation to attend the Sharjah International Book Fair from 1-14 November 2015
• Travelling to Sharjah, on behalf of Cairo University and the Centre for Languages and Translation to attend the Sharjah International Book Fair from 2-15 November 2016

 

1. 17.  Contributing to activities for students’ skill development and character building:

• Organizing and chairing a seminar on "The seven aspects of a balanced life" for the students of the Department on March 22,  2016
• Organizing and supervising a one-day trip to the city of Fayyoum for students of the third and fourth years in the Department of English on April 15, 2016
• Organizing and chairing a seminar on "Language Learning and Assessment" in March 13, 2017 at the Faculty of Arts’ Conference room.

 

 

• Working as the Deputy Director

  of Cairo University Center for Foreign Languages and Professional Translation from June 2009 to 2014

 

• Working as Director

  of Cairo University Center for Foreign Languages and Translation as of January 2014 until now

 

• A member of the Permanent Committee for Chief Managerial Occupations at Cairo University

  as of January 2014 until 2017

 

• A member of the English Language Committee at the Faculty of Commerce of Cairo University until now

 

 

Have very good knowledge of basic computer skills including standard office tasks: Microsoft office, PowerPoint