Mr. Karim Karmi

Karim Karmi is currently a PhD student at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. In 2009, he was awarded a Chevening scholarship from the British Embassy in Tunis. He did an MA in applied linguistics for language teaching at the University of Southampton, UK. In 2022, he was awarded a fully-funded PhD studentship from the Open University. His study is titled “English as a Medium of Instruction in Tunisian Higher Education Institutions: Exploring Attitudes, Challenges and Opportunities. Karim is also a teaching assistant in the Department of English at the University of Manouba in Tunisia. His area of interest includes English as a medium of instruction, language teaching pedagogy and sociolinguistics.