ABSTRACT
For the past year I have been working on a collaborative project with my own university in the United States and a private university for science and technology in the Middle East. The university I am working with indicates on their website that they offer the courses in the various disciplines in English. The faculty members come from backgrounds in architecture, chemistry, engineering, computer science, mathematics, dentistry, and pharmacy. There is no faculty or department of education or English language, and the individual faculty members have had no formal training in teaching. In addition, most of the faculty members and their students are native speakers of Arabic.
