Dr Farhat Abdullah
Assistant Professor
Dr. Farhat Abdullah has an active career in teaching and research spanning over a decade, with experience in various roles at higher education institutions. In 2018, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan awarded her a Faculty Development Program Scholarship for her PhD studies. She also undertook a research fellowship at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, where she also gained teaching experience at the undergraduate level.
Dr. Abdullah has presented research papers at numerous international conferences, both in Pakistan and abroad. She was awarded the HEC International Travel Grant twice—once in 2013 and again in 2016. In 2016, she attended the prestigious biennial flagship research event of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2016), in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. This event contributed to her certification in language documentation. She earned an internal LSA grant of 0.2 million PKR to cover the registration charges for the LSA practicum. Later, she was selected for the Pop-Up Mentoring Program sponsored by LSA at SALT 31 and FASL 30, conferences organized by Brown University and MIT, USA, respectively.
Dr. Abdullah also contributed to the DAAD-funded Urdu WordNet project (2012) as a linguist. She joined the University of Central Punjab (UCP), Lahore, as a permanent faculty member in 2013 and has since taught a range of linguistics courses, including Introduction to Language Studies, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, TESOL, and Forensic Linguistics. Her teaching abilities, discipline, and innovative pedagogical skills were recognized with the Best Faculty Teacher Award in 2021.
In addition to her academic achievements, Dr. Abdullah has demonstrated strong leadership and managerial skills by organizing poster presentations, seminars, and study tours for the English Department within the Faculty of Languages and Literature UCP, Lahore. As the founder of the Tekhleeq-registered start-up AnarkaliStore.com, she is now exploring her entrepreneurial skills.
- English for Specific Purposes
- Communication Skills
- Language, Culture & Society
Education
- Ph.D. (2023) Linguistics Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan
- Ph.D. Research Fellow (June-October, 2022) Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
- Certification in Language Documentation June-July, 2016 Completed Collaborative Language Research (Program CoLang2016) University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
- M.Phil. (2012) Applied Linguistics Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan
- Masters (2000) Applied Linguistics Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan
Graduation (1998) English Literature University of Punjab, Pakistan
Experience
- June 2024-to date Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Central Punjab Lahore, Pakistan http://www.ucp.edu.pk/
- June 2022 -October 2022 A teaching fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2021-2023 Principal Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Central Punjab Lahore, Pakistan http://www.ucp.edu.pk/
- 2018 -2021 Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Central Punjab Lahore, Pakistan http://www.ucp.edu.pk/
- Feb-2013 to 2018 Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Central Punjab Lahore, Pakistan http://www.ucp.edu.pk/
- Sept-2012 to Feb-2013 Visiting Lecturer at the University of Education Lahore, Pakistan http://ue.edu.pk/beta/
- September 2011- Feb2013 Research Assistant at the Centre for Language Engineering, Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Sciences. University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore. www.cle.org.pk/
- August 2011-March 2012 Lecturer at Government Gulberg College for Women, Lahore.
Honors and Awards
- Offered an award for conducting a workshop on “Developing Urdu WordNet” in the Conference on Language Technology 12 (CLT12) UET Lahore which was attended by linguists from Germany (University of Konstanz,) and all over Pakistan
- Won the Best Faculty Member Award for 2021 at the University of Central Punjab, Lahore
Memberships
- Have been an editor of the Kinnaird Literary Society
- Member of Nazaria-I Pakistan Trust (www.nazariapak.info/)
- Member of Natural Language Processing (SNLP) www.snlp.org.pk) and Linguistic Association of Pakistan (LAP)
- President Lahore Chapter of Pakistani Federation of University Women (www.ifuw.org/) (Graduate Women International GWI now)
- Member of the Linguistic Society of America
- Executive Board Member of Forum for Language Initiative (FLI)
Brief statement of Research Interest
Want to continue my research on semantic relations which is a specialized field of Linguistics.
Publications
- Abdullah, F., Ahmed, T., & Anjum, U. (2021). Urdu Conjunct Predicates (N+ V) Inventory from Urdu Universal Dependency Corpus. CORPORUM: Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 4(1), 15-29.
- Ruba, A., Abdullah, F., Ahmed, K., & Basharat, A. (2021). Online Learning Experience and Challenges of Undergraduate Students During COVID-19. Journal of English Language, Literature and Education, 3(01), 1-28.
- Zahra, F. T., Saleem, T., Abdullah, A. F., & Khan, M. A. (2021). Testing Matrix Language Framework Model on Urdu-English Online News Entity: A Creative Approach. Multicultural Education, 7(1).
- Ahmed, K., Zahra, F. T., Abdullah, F., & Habib, M. A. (2021). Voices from the World: An Analysis of Discourse Fragments from World Leaders on Covid-19. LINGUISTICA ANTVERPIENSIA, 4315-4345.
- Zahara, F. T., Saleem, T., Joiya, N., & Abdullah, F. (2020). Mayers-Scotten’s 4-M Model: A Qusai-Experimental Study of Pashto-English Morphological Ability. Amazonia Investiga, 9(34), 8-16.
- “A Comparative Study of Spoken English on Pakistani and Indian TV Channels” in the online proceedings of Second International Conference on Language, Literature & Community (LLLC2015). February 21-22, 2015. Bhubaneshwar, India.
- Abdullah, F. (2013). The Use of E-contents for Teaching Language Subjects. In paper proceedings of international conference on language, literature & linguistics 2013 (Online) (p. 41).
- “Development of Urdu WordNet Using the Merge Approach”, is published in the peer reviewed proceedings of Conference on Language Technology 12 (CLT12, UET, Lahore (https://www.cle.org.pk/research/papers.htm)
- “Production, Delivery and Sharing of E-Contents: New Paradigm in Language Pedagogy” Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
- “Hyponymy Noun Hierarchies in Urdu WordNet” a working paper
Research Grants and Contracts
- Travel Grant to Present a Paper, 2013 (source/sponsor: Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Amount: 110,870 PKR/-
- Travel Grant to Present a Paper, 2016 (source/sponsor: Punjab Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Amount: 350,000 PKR/-
- An awardee of the HEC Faculty Development Ph.D. Scholarship (approximately 2.5 M PKR)
Other Research or Creative accomplishments
I have been a part of a research team at Center for language Engineering (UET) Lahore which developed “Urdu WordNet”, an electronic lexical database.
Selected Professional Presentation
- Conducted a workshop on “Developing Urdu WordNet” in Conference on Language Technology 12 (CLT12) UET Lahore which was attended by linguists from Germany (University of Konstanz,) and all over Pakistan
- Presented a research paper titled “The Use of E-Contents for Teaching Language Subjects” in the International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics 2013 (LLL 2013) 2-3 Dec, 2013, Grand Oriental Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka. http://theicrd.org/Proceeding%20LLL%2013.pdf
- Presented a research article titled “Production, Delivery and Sharing of E-Contents: New Paradigm in Language Pedagogy” in 1st International Conference on Linguistics and Language Teaching, 25-26 November 2013, Bahawalpur, Pakistan. http://linguisticsconferenceiub.blogspot.com/p/tentative-detailed-programme-day-l_3030.html
- Presented a research paper titled “A Comparative Study of Spoken English on Pakistani and Indian TV Channels” in the Second International Conference on Language, Literature & Community (LLLC2015). February 21-22,2015. Bhubaneshwar, http://www.languages3000.com/
- Presented a research paper titled “Hyponymy Noun Hierarchies in Urdu WordNet” in 2nd Kashmir International Conference on Linguistics, May 04-05, 2015. Muzaffarbad, Azad Kashmir. http://www.ajku.edu.pk/icl.php
- Presented a research paper titled “Use of Computational Analysis of the Borrowed Words for Translation Studies” in International Conference of the Linguistic Association of Pakistan, October 07—09, 2015. Kinnaird College, Lahore http://www.iclap.org/ICLAP2015/
- Presented a work titled “Construction of Hyponymy Relations in the Urdu WordNet”; furthermore, attended credited courses at CoLang2016 (alaska.edu/colang2016/), Fairbanks, Alaska, USA in (June20-July 01), 2016
- Conducted a workshop on “ Project Development” in the Faculty Development Program 2016 at University of Central Punjab
- Conducted a workshop on “ Planning Language Projects” in 3rd ICLAP held at NED University Karachi (October16, 2017)
- Presented a Paper titled “ Comparative Analysis of International and National Open Courseware” in Kashmir International Conference on Linguistics in April, 2018
- Presented a paper titled “Cognitive aspects of Conceptual Metaphors in the Harry Potter Series” in a conference at Air University on April 22, 2019
Presented a paper titled “Use of Modal Verbs in the Law for Transgender Persons in Pakistani Constitution” in 7th International Conference of Linguistic Society of Pakistan (ICLAP2021)
farhat.abdullah@ucp.edu.pk
042-35880007 Ext: 639
Faculty of English, University of Central Punjab