924. Walaa Mouma Returns (Part 1) 📚 PhD Studies in Wales & Teaching English for Refugees

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Walaa Mouma returns to the podcast after 4 years to give us an update about her academic studies and personal story, including getting married and moving to Wales, details of her PhD doctorate, as well as her other studies and volunteer work helping to teach English to refugees and asylum seekers. Walaa's passion for this work is inspired by her own personal story of learning English, seeking asylum in the UK and studying in the UK's academic system, which she first talked about in episode 703 of this podcast. Part 1 of a 2-part episode.

Episode page with more information and links to Walaa's social media 👉 https://teacherluke.co.uk/2025/03/03/924-walaa-mouma-returns-part-1-phd-studies-in-wales-teaching-english-for-refugees/

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1:21.7	Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. This is episode number 924, and it's the first part of a two-part episode. Part two will arrive in just a few days. So you're getting two episodes in one week this time. Yes, I have decided to make two parts from this one instead of publishing one massive episode. In this particular instance, I've decided to divide it into two episodes. So part one is this one. Part two will arrive in a few days. So two episodes in a week for you this time.
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2:13.8	2021, beginning of 2021, I did a competition. The competition was called Why I Should Be on Luke's English podcast or Wispolep for short.
2:24.0	Long-term listeners will remember that, I hope. And in the competition, basically, I asked listeners to send in short recordings of themselves, talking for a minute or so, and explaining
2:37.1	why they should be on Luke's English podcast. I made a short list of recordings, played them in an
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