Mariam Aldoseri (DipTrans, FHEA, CELTA, MSc.) is an English Language Lecturer at The Arabian Gulf University. She holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Masters in Applied English Language Studies from The University of Bahrain. She also holds a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA). Committed to a student-centered approach, she focuses on communicative skills and grammar-in-use. She is interested in pedagogical misalignments, student autonomy, facilitation, medical humanities, and critical discourse analysis in areas related to education, literature and translation. Mariam writes, edits and proofreads fiction and non-fiction in Arabic and English, and translates literary and non-literary texts from English and Spanish into Arabic.