Academic and Administrative Honors
Yarmouk University Teaching Excellence Award as most outstanding faculty member in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 1985
Fulbright Scholar Award, the University of Texas, Austin, USA, 1982-83
Yarmouk University Double Increment for administrative and academic excellence, 1977
Fulbright scholarship to study for the Ph.D. in Linguistics at Brown University, USA, 1968-1973
Fulbright Scholarship for B.Sc. in English at SUNY, Plattsburgh, USA, 1963-1965
SUNY Scholarship for M.Sc. in English, at SUNY, Plattsburgh, USA, 1965-1966
Jordanian Government Scholarship for junior college diploma in Arabic and English Language and Literature, 1958-1960